Welocalize, Inc.

Head of Data Collection

Welocalize, Inc. • $150K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, operations, data/engineering, or a related field.
  • 8+ years in large-scale operations or program delivery (AI data, content review, labeling/annotation, or adjacent domains).
  • 6+ years in senior operations leadership (managing managers and multi-team portfolios).
  • Proven record of financial ownership (budgeting, forecasting, pricing/margins) and executive client partnership.
  • Strong command of spreadsheets, project management platforms, and BI dashboards; familiarity with SQL/ETL concepts is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Set operating model, goals, and investment priorities for accounts; translate business strategy into execution.
  • Lead Senior Managers and their teams; hire, develop, and retain talent.
  • Serve as executive sponsor for key clients; oversee governance and planning cycles.
  • Own P&L responsibilities including revenue, margin, pricing, and forecasting.
  • Drive standardization and automation in operations for improved efficiency.
  • Define key performance metrics and turn data into actionable insights.
  • Manage vendor strategies, capacity planning, and operational compliance.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for strategic leadership in AI training data programs.
  • Collaboration with senior executives across multiple disciplines.
  • Focus on talent development and succession planning.
  • Exposure to global operations and cross-time zone teamwork.
Full Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

Provides strategic oversight for a global account or a group of accounts delivering AI training data programs for data collection. Leads a large operations organization (Senior Managers and their teams), owns the overall financial picture, and owns strategic relationships with key clients to drive delivery performance and satisfaction. Acts as an equal partner with the Director of Quality and the Director of Engagement Management to align strategy, quality, and client growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strategic operations leadership: Set the operating model, goals, and investment priorities across accounts; translate business strategy into execution plans.

  • People leadership at scale: Lead Senior Managers (L2) and their orgs; hire, develop, and retain talent; build succession pipelines and leadership capability.

  • Client executive ownership: Serve as executive sponsor for key clients; run governance and planning cycles; align on roadmap, priorities, and commercial terms.

  • Financial ownership: Own P&L levers—revenue, margin, pricing, forecasting, and change orders; ensure commercial and delivery alignment.

  • Quality & engagement partnership: Co-own operational excellence with the Director of Quality; co-own growth/expansion motions with the Director of Engagement Management.

  • Scale, standardization & automation: Drive SOP standardization, tooling adoption, and automation with Ops Tech/Product to improve speed, quality, and cost.

  • Analytics & insights: Define the metrics that matter; review performance and convert data into actions at portfolio level.

  • Workforce & vendor strategy: Set capacity plans across sites and vendors; manage vendor mix, SLAs, and performance improvements or transitions.

  • Risk, compliance & security: Own operational risk posture; ensure audit readiness and adherence to privacy, data handling, and security policies.

  • Cross-functional leadership: Align Operations, Quality, Engagement/Account, Finance, Vendor Management, and Tech to meet client and business goals.

Additional Job Details:

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, operations, data/engineering, or a related field.

Experience

  • 8+ years in large-scale operations or program delivery (AI data, content review, labeling/annotation, or adjacent domains).

  • 6+ years in senior operations leadership (managing managers and multi-team portfolios).

  • Proven record of financial ownership (budgeting, forecasting, pricing/margins) and executive client partnership.

Skills

  • Portfolio and program governance across global accounts.

  • Executive communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management.

  • Organization design, talent strategy, and performance management for multi-level teams.

  • Strong command of spreadsheets, PM platforms, and BI dashboards; familiarity with SQL/ETL concepts is a plus.

  • Quality and compliance mindset with practical use of SOPs, QA gates, and acceptance criteria.

  • Strategic judgment on scope, time, cost, and quality; able to make and communicate trade-offs.

  • Comfortable operating across time zones with global, distributed teams (advanced English).

Scope & Autonomy (L3 Alignment)

  • Provides strategic direction for a global account or group of accounts; sets standards and operating rhythms across multiple teams and vendors.

  • Makes medium- to long-term decisions with material business impact; escalates only exceptional or enterprise-level issues.

  • Direct line management for Senior Managers (L2) and senior IC leaders; strong influence across Quality, Engagement, Tech, and Vendor organizations.

  • Operates as an equal partner with the Director of Quality and Director of Engagement Management.

About Welocalize, Inc.

Welocalize, Inc. is a global translation and localization company that provides language services to businesses and organizations around the world. The company was founded in 1997 and has since grown to become one of the largest language service providers in the world. Welocalize offers a wide range of services, including translation, interpretation, localization, and language consulting. The company has a team of over 1,500 professionals and operates in over 250 languages. Welocalize is committed to providing high-quality language services to its clients and has implemented several quality control measures to ensure accuracy and consistency. The company is privately held and headquartered in Baltimore, MD.
Learn more about Welocalize, Inc.
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1,500 employees
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Founded
1997

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