Senior Technical Program Manager – Data Labeling
| Company | |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, Remote in USA |
| Salary | $120082 – $247228 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a technical program manager, or related experience in the data labeling space
- A background managing complex projects effectively by setting clear goals, designing solutions and tracking progress against deadlines
- Strong track of organizational management, forecasting, budgeting, and resource management skills
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, and strong ability to work autonomously and cross-functionally
- Experience with scaled data labeling operations across multiple use cases
- Comfortable managing and collaborating with large vendor teams
- Strong written, verbal communication skills and comfort in communicating nuanced, and often technical, concepts to internal stakeholders or external partners
- Experience presenting data as insights to stakeholders
- Experience working in a fast-moving environment, managing multiple projects within tight deadlines
- Demonstrated experience in creating and driving efficient processes at scale
- Action-oriented collaborator who can effectively communicate and work with people across different teams, roles, and functions
- Proficient with Excel, G Suite (Google docs, sheets and slides)
- Proficient in using LLM’s such as ChatGPT
- Comfort working in a fast-changing environment, with unexpected problems or a new relationship to forge around the corner at all times
- Entrepreneurial spirit with strong leadership, who can develop and lead a new initiative from the ground up and thrive in ambiguity
- Passion for execution, and getting things done
- Solid technical background and ability to quickly understand technical designs, challenges and risks. Experience breaking down complex problems and driving decision making
- Strong analytical abilities, able to create & monitor metrics, proactively identify growth opportunities & incidents
- Ability to influence teams & drive alignment among multiple stakeholders
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify and drive key strategic explorations relating to data labeling operations
- Translate strategic ideas into execution plans, and be accountable to drive them to completion thereby delivering high quality data labels to stakeholder teams
- Drive complex technical decisions across multiple teams
- Execute at both breadth and depth. At breadth by understanding the big picture, and at depth by being comfortable driving nitty gritty details with multiple teams
- Be a thought leader to your XFN stakeholders by influencing product roadmap during the annual & quarterly planning
- Work cross functionally with engineering, product, design, data science, finance, legal, and vendor teams to turn ambiguous opportunities into actionable outcomes
- Define new processes from ground up to streamline collaboration between stakeholders
- Influence teams and build relationships with key stakeholders across disciplines and organizations
- Build effective and transparent communication channels to adaptively communicate schedules, priorities, status and risk to various functional stakeholders at all levels of the company
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit