• Lead strategic programs across the Data, AI, and Analytics domains, delivering high-impact initiatives in platform modernization, machine learning deployment, and data governance. • Partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics leadership to define and sequence the Data roadmap, aligning scope and priorities with company objectives while driving effective prioritization and trade-off decisions across features, tech debt, and platform initiatives in an inherently ambiguous, fast-evolving environment. • Drive end-to-end delivery across multiple engineering squads, managing complex dependencies across data pipelines, modeling workflows, and analytics infrastructure — ensuring smooth delivery from ingestion to insight. • Drive the operationalization of AI models into production in partnership with MLOps and engineering teams, balancing innovation with compliance and performance. • Collaborate with Product and Business teams to ensure data and AI solutions drive measurable outcomes — from credit decisioning to fraud detection to customer engagement. • Drive delivery across third-party vendors and financial partners, ensuring integrated solutions meet program milestones, quality standards, and business objectives while proactively managing risks to scope and timeline. • Build strong partnerships across Security, Infrastructure, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and Risk to deliver efficient, resilient, and capital-effective solutions. • Champion Agile and CI/CD practices, elevating execution quality through repeatable, scalable delivery processes. • Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing clear, actionable communication on program health, risks, trade-offs, and dependencies. • Mentor TPMs and cross-functional partners, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and trust.

Mudflap serves the $800B trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy. Our market-leading payment products help truckers save thousands of dollars on fuel (their #1 business expense), while providing our fuel stop partners with access to new, hard-to-reach customers. We’re a fast-growing marketplace business looking for a new customer-obsessed teammate to join us on this exciting journey. As a Technical Program Manager - AI Initiatives/Adoption , you will own the implementation, integration, and adoption of AI-driven solutions across Customer Support operations. This role sits at the intersection of Support, Product, and Engineering and is responsible for translating operational needs into scalable, technical solutions that improve both customer experience and agent efficiency. You will design and maintain the systems, workflows, and integrations that enable AI-assisted support, ensure high-quality and reliable support data, and continuously measure and improve the impact of AI initiatives. This role requires a hands-on, technical operator who is comfortable working across systems, building integrations, and driving adoption in a fast-growing environment. Work Location: This can be a fully remote position. While we operate across multiple time zones, most collaboration happens during Pacific Time working hours. Candidates should be able to work a schedule aligned with the PT time zone. Expectations (In this role, you will): Design, build, and maintain integrations between support platforms, internal systems, and AI tools to enable automation, intelligent routing, and AI-assisted resolution Lead the implementation and adoption of AI-powered workflows that reduce manual effort for support agents and improve resolution speed and consistency Partner closely with Product and Engineering to define technical requirements, data contracts, and system boundaries related to Customer Support operations Perks and Benefits (What we offer): Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup Multiple health benefit options Responsible Time Off 401(k) matching Opportunities and support for major career growth Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!) The salary range for this role is $162,000 - $180,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, which may be subject to change as new market data becomes available. The candidate's skills, experience, and other relevant factors will determine the exact compensation. Company Overview (Who we are): Mudflap is on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry by leveling the playing field for owner operators and small fleets. Backed by top-tier venture investors, including QED, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, NFX, and 500 Startups and included in the Forbes Fintech 50 list, Mudflap offers fleet fuel management solutions. Our core team hails from Disney, Uber, Procore, DoorDash, Google, Meta, Capital One, Affirm and Brex. Here are the core values that we believe in and look for in new teammates: Be Customer Obsessed: We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do Make it Count: Act like an owner by focusing on the impact of your work Find a Way: Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates Sweat the Details: We keep our standards high and achieve them by paying attention to every detail Be Curious: Use a growth mindset to question assumptions, take calculated risks and stretch the boundaries of what’s possible

• Technical security orchestration: Partner with Security Engineering, Risk, Product, and Infrastructure teams to bake security and compliance "into the kiln" rather than painting it on at the end. • Help design risk solutions: Dive deep into the security stack to not only identify execution blockers but actively architect the technical solutions to implement them. • Help architect our security mission: Define the technical milestones for high-stakes initiatives like Zero Trust and IAM overhauls, translating a broad vision into a precise execution roadmap. • Drive high-velocity operations: Lead agile security sprints that harmonize vulnerability remediation and threat detection with feature development, ensuring security moves at the speed of innovation. • Optimize the "rhythm of the business" by automating manual GRC workflows, eliminating manual friction and moving us toward Compliance as Code. • Translate telemetry into narrative: Distill complex security data and telemetry into compelling risk narratives for leadership while maintaining high-fidelity technical depth for engineers. • Optimize the defensive roadmap: Command long-term strategic planning by aligning cloud infrastructure costs and security tooling with the company’s overarching defensive goals. • Cultivate organizational excellence: Uphold a relentless culture of focus and accountability, identifying systemic inefficiencies and driving impact through superior tooling and process engineering.

• Serve as the primary technical interface between Pharos and OEM partners. • Ensure early visibility into platform and firmware changes. • Lead root-cause analysis of integration failures. • Maintain predictable OEM certification and testing workflows. • Identify integration risks and early warning signals.