Freelance AI Data Project Manager (NYC / LA - On-Site)

Toloka

• $110K — $130K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience leading technical cross-functional teams
  • Proven track record in managing complex projects from discovery to implementation
  • Strong client-facing skills
  • Agile mindset with the ability to adapt to new domains
  • Background in consulting, tech, or competitive analysis is advantageous
  • Good understanding of LLMs and their lifecycle
  • Experience in data generation and process improvement suggestions
  • Demonstrated experience in the AI space, managing teams or projects at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of all delivery team projects, ensuring data quality and transparency
  • Lead a cross-functional team to keep projects on track and resolve issues proactively
  • Manage internal and external communications, planning activities, and providing status updates
  • Motivate the team and seek efficiency improvements
  • Implement enhancements to the delivery process, focusing on adoption and feedback.

Benefits

  • Freelance (B2B) collaboration with potential for project team integration
  • Flexible, fully remote schedule (40 hours per week)
  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI development with a dynamic team
  • Engagement with AI industry leaders and well-known brands
  • Supportive and friendly community.
Full Job Description
About position

We're seeking a Freelance AI Data Project Manager based in New York City or Los Angeles to join Delivery team and help build, drive, and maintain solutions for our clients. Joining us in this role means you will lead a virtual cross-functional team managing successful project implementation. This involves both client communication and internal coordination.

The team consists of talented engineers of different kinds, supply managers and other departments on an 'as needed' basis. This is a key role for us to ensure we deliver the best possible experience for our clients and enable us to constantly grow our business.

Example Projects
  • SFT (supervised fine tuning) data generation pipeline producing thousands of prompts and completions weekly across several languages and domains of knowledge;
  • Evaluation pipeline helping to estimate LLMs' responses quality and reaching a throughput of hundred thousands weekly;
  • A red-teaming project helping to collect malicious prompts of different kinds to ensure models' safety.

Key Responsibilities
  • Take ultimate ownership for all delivery team projects, including data quality, delivery timelines, unit economics and overall transparency for stakeholders;
  • Lead a cross-functional delivery team ensuring projects are on track, any issues and risks are highlighted and resolved proactively;
  • Own operations of the delivery team: including internal and external communication, activities planning, posting summaries and status updates, conducting retros etc.;
  • Drive and motivate the team, seek out change to increase the organization's efficiency;
  • Help roll out improvements to the delivery team focussing on increased adoption and providing feedback for further improvements.

Qualifications
  • Experience leading technical cross-functional teams;
  • Experience managing complex projects including discovery, decomposition, scope planning, implementation and adoption;
  • Client facing experience;
  • Being generally agile, able to switch quickly to new domains and subjects;
  • Consulting, Tech, Competitors background is a big plus;
  • Good understanding of LLMs and their life cycle in particular;
  • Experience in data generation;
  • Experience and proactiveness in suggesting process changes is appreciated;
  • Proven experience in the AI space, including working with clients and managing teams or projects at scale.

What we can offer
  • Freelance (B2B) collaboration, with a path into a project team if things go well;
  • Flexible, fully remote schedule (40 hours per week);
  • Work at the leading edge of AI development, alongside a dedicated and dynamic team of experts;
  • Projects with customers that are AI industry leaders and well-known household names;
  • Friendly community.


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