Program Manager, Professional Services - West

$222k+
San Francisco, CA; Remote - US On-site $222k+ Posted Jun 12
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Program Manager, Professional Services - West at Airtable is a forward deployed enterprise software role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.

Reading this role

This Technical Leadership role centers on team leadership, customer program ownership, and scaling delivery playbooks. Key signals from the listing: 5+ years experience, Senior scope.

About Airtable

Enterprise software forward deployed engineers drive adoption, integration, and measurable customer outcomes. The role is anchored in San Francisco, CA; Remote - US, so expect on-site customer work in that region.

Signals in the listing

  • 5+ years experience
  • Senior scope

Stand out for Program Manager, Professional Services - West

  • Lead your application with one paragraph tying Program Manager, Professional Services - West to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Airtable hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
  • Quantify team and program scale: people managed, number of concurrent customer deployments, and revenue or mission outcomes influenced.
  • Explain how you built repeatable playbooks so delivery quality did not depend on one hero engineer.
  • This role is tied to San Francisco, CA; Remote - US — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).

Stand out at Airtable

  • Demonstrate stakeholder management with a concrete example — Airtable will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
  • Demonstrate integration skill with a concrete example — Airtable will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
  • Prepare stories that move from discovery → pilot → production with named outcomes.
  • Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on airtable.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.

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Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done. Work is being redesigned, and Airtable is built for that moment: the same platform humans run their most critical workflows on is where agents now operate alongside them. Professional Services is where that redesign happens. The Technical Project Manager runs delivery on our most complex engagements. This is not a coordination role; it's a technical delivery lead position with accountability across an Airtable PS team, external development partners, and enterprise customer stakeholders, all moving toward shared milestones across different cadences, compliance requirements, and organizational dynamics. You sequence the work, hold the relationships, and make real-time decisions when plans meet reality.

What you'll do

Serve as the primary delivery lead for enterprise customers, owning the relationship, the plan, and the outcome from kickoff through go-live and beyond. Run delivery across all workstreams: internal team, external partners, customer stakeholders, managing progress, blockers, and alignment simultaneously. Own the project plan end to end: scope, schedule, budget, risk register, and RAID log across the full engagement lifecycle. Make technical sequencing decisions when platform constraints, compliance requirements, or partner dependencies force tradeoffs. Guide customers through AI workflow transformation, helping them move from human-run processes to AI-augmented and agent-assisted operations, and managing the organizational dynamics that come with it. Use AI tools actively in your own delivery operations: status reporting, risk synthesis, documentation, and stakeholder communication. You don't just manage teams using AI; you use it yourself. Manage scope formally: track change requests, assess impact on timeline and budget, and run the change order process when the engagement evolves beyond the original SOW. Sequence work across Agile sprint cycles and Waterfall delivery milestones depending on what the engagement demands, and shift the model when reality requires it. Hold external partners accountable across organizational boundaries, by relationship and clarity, not authority. Coordinate compliance, security, access management, and third-party approvals in regulated enterprise environments. Keep executive stakeholders accurately informed without requiring them to understand the technical details. Work directly in Airtable as an operational tool; hands-on platform fluency is required.

Who you are

You have delivered technical programs for external customers in a professional services or consulting context, not just managed internal projects. You've run steering committees, managed scope conversations, and owned customer outcomes with real accountability. 5+ years managing technical delivery in complex, multi-stakeholder environments, with accountability for outcomes across teams you don't directly control. You lead through influence and clarity, not organizational authority. You are genuinely fluent with AI tools, not aspirationally. You use AI in your daily delivery workflow, have an informed perspective on where agentic systems create leverage and where they introduce risk, and can help customers navigate both. You have worked directly in Airtable or a comparable platform, not managed people who do. You understand how components interact, identify dependency and sequencing issues by looking at the system, and build the tools your team uses to run delivery operations. PMP or equivalent PMO certification. You know formal project management methodology and apply it as the structure that keeps complex engagements from quietly going off course. You operate fluidly across Agile and Waterfall. You know which model fits the engagement and can run both without defaulting to whichever is more comfortable. When plans break, you create order. You don't wait for someone else to lead. Delivered in enterprise environments with real compliance, security, and access management requirements. You plan around constraints, not past them. Track record of coordinating delivery across organizational boundaries: external partners, customer teams, or both. You communicate across the full room: executive-ready updates for C-level stakeholders, direct technical direction for delivery teams, and clear framing for the business SMEs whose work is changing. Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

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For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York, the on-target earnings range for this role is:

  • $179,500—$221,500 USD

For all other work locations (including remote), the on-target earnings range for this role is:

  • $162,000—$199,800 USD

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What is the Program Manager, Professional Services - West role at Airtable?
This is a forward deployed engineering position at Airtable based in San Francisco, CA; Remote - US. Forward deployed engineers work directly with customers to deploy and integrate software on-site.
Where is this Airtable role located?
This Program Manager, Professional Services - West position is in San Francisco, CA; Remote - US. Use the apply link above to confirm location details and hybrid/remote options on the company's careers page.
What is the compensation for this role?
Listed compensation: $222k+. Verify the latest salary range on the company's careers page before applying.
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