Lead Program Manager

Posted 21 Days Ago
17 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Entry level
Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing
The Role
Leads a large-scale AI training data program spanning multiple projects, vendors, and cross-functional teams. Owns program strategy, client relationships, budgets, quality outcomes, capacity planning, risk management, compliance, and continuous process improvement. Manages delivery teams, governance reviews, change control, automation initiatives, and operational performance to meet high-volume client commitments.
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Job Responsibilities:

Leads a program of AI training data projects at scale. Owns program-level strategy and delivery, manages a cross-functional team, and is the primary owner of the client relationship for the program. Partners closely with the Lead Quality Manager to keep quality consistent and drive continuous improvement across high-volume operations.

Key Responsibilities 

  • Program strategy & planning: Define program goals, roadmap, milestones, and operating model across multiple projects and vendors. 

  • Team management: Lead a delivery team (PMs, Coordinators) with clear goals, capacity plans, coaching, and performance feedback. 

  • Client ownership: Act as the day-to-day executive contact; run governance, planning, and QBR-style reviews; align scope, priorities, and change. 

  • Quality partnership: Co-own quality outcomes with the Manager of Quality; align on guidelines, audits, acceptance criteria, and corrective actions. 

  • Scale & throughput: Plan and secure rater/annotator capacity; optimize shifts, handoffs, automation, and tooling to meet high-volume targets. 

  • Financial stewardship: Build and manage budgets, margins, and change orders; ensure commercial and delivery commitments stay aligned. 

  • Risk, issue & change control: Maintain program RAID; lead root-cause analyses and remediation; escalate high-impact items with options and impact. 

  • Process improvement & automation: Standardize SOPs, templates, and dashboards; pilot and scale automation with Ops Tech. 

  • Compliance & security: Ensure policy adherence for data handling, privacy, and platform access across the program. 

  • Stakeholder management: Coordinate with Sales/Account, Quality, Operations, and Vendor Management to meet client and business goals. 

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
2,331 Employees
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 250,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our people work across offices in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. • Global team of 2,100+ • Offices in North America, Europe and Asia • Quality Certifications: ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO 17100:2015, ISO 13485:2016, ISO 18587:2017 • Accredited professional translators and interpreters for 250+ languages www.welocalize.com

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