lilt-corporate - Head of Technical Program Management, Applied AI
Requirements
• Accountable Mindset & Ownership: Proven track record as the final owner of large-scale, mission-critical technical portfolios, with direct accountability for project delivery, customer outcomes, and SLA adherence. Demonstrated experience architecting mitigations for AI-specific operational risks (e.g., dataset contamination, domain drift, quality decay, and SLA vulnerabilities). • Experience: 10+ years in delivery, operations, or program leadership, including 5+ years managing managers or multi-team delivery organizations.Proven ownership of a large, customer-facing delivery portfolio with accountability for SLAs, quality, and margin. • Builder & Coach Mindset: Proven track record of building technical program functions, processes, and systems from scratch, coupled with a deep dedication to coaching, mentoring, and growing talent. • People Management & Leadership: 5+ years of direct people management experience building and scaling TPM, Product, or Engineering teams within high-growth AI or enterprise tech environments. • Frontier AI Expertise: Deep, hands-on understanding of the modern AI landscape—including LLMs, multimodal models, training/inference pipelines, and complex dataset diversity (multilingual and multi-domain). Hands-on experience delivering AI training data, human data, LLM evaluation, annotation, or localization programs at scale, with distributed contributor or vendor workforces. • 0-to-1 & Scale Experience: Demonstrated ability to build operating systems in high-velocity startup environments and scale them to support high-throughput, mission-critical operations where quality control is paramount. • Strong Data Fluency: comfortable using SQL, spreadsheets, or BI tools to run the business on metrics such as throughput, quality, cost per task, and utilization. • Contemporary Industry Acumen: Working knowledge of the modern AI landscape (LLMs, multimodal models, training and evaluation pipelines) to partner credibly with researchers and engineers. • Executive Stakeholder Management: Excellent business acumen, executive presence, and communication style with experience building high-trust partnerships with top-tier AI labs, customers, and enterprise executive teams • Education: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, AI, or a related technical field with 12+ years of industry experience (or Ph.D. with 8+ years). • Experience at an AI data, human data, or language services company, or delivering for frontier AI labs. • Experience leading globally distributed teams across time zones. • Familiarity with Python and modern program tooling (e.g., Linear, Jira, custom analytics) to automate reporting and workflows. • Fluency in multiple human languages.
Responsibilities
• End-to-end Practice Ownership: Serve as the single point of accountability for customer outcomes across all Applied AI programs — technical delivery, project work and timelines, quality SLAs, margin, and customer satisfaction. You own top-line program success metrics, quality SLAs, delivery timelines, and customer satisfaction across all Applied AI projects. • Lead and scale the delivery team: Recruit, mentor, and scale a world-class team of TPMs and project managers. Set clear goals, coach for ownership, unblock across complex technical and operational challenges, and build a team that runs complex programs independently. • Run delivery operations and capacity planning at volume: Own capacity planning, staffing, and resource allocation across programs. Turn shifting customer demand into reliable production plans and delivery forecasts that protect speed and margin. • Build the delivery operating system: Standardize intake, scoping, kickoff, quality control, reporting, and close-out. Turn individual program learnings into repeatable playbooks, systems, processes, and dashboards. • Strategic Customer Partnership & Escalations: Act as executive partner and delivery sponsor for key frontier AI lab relationships. Proactively co-develop benchmark transcreations with customer research leads. Lead escalations, run business reviews, and help shape scope, pricing, and timelines with Sales. • Own quality: Partner with Research to standardize quality control across delivery, including embedded calibration, gold sets, inter-annotator agreement, LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, model eval pipelines and root-cause analysis into every customer program, ensuring that quality issues are proactively controlled and mitigated. • Manage the expert and vendor workforce: Work with Expert Supply and Operations to qualify, manage, and engage multilingual contributors and vendors, with clear performance and cost metrics. • Cross-functional Workflow Design and Execution: Design, build, and optimize scalable program frameworks for text, image, video, and audio modalities. Turn complex technical requirements into seamless operational realities, bridging Sales, Engineering, Research, Product, Production, and Engineering to scope and build project workflows that are designed optimally, launched quickly, and executed smoothly
Benefits
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package. • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology in a rapidly growing industry. • A dynamic and collaborative work environment. • Significant opportunities for professional growth and development. • The chance to make a real impact on global communication and business. • Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. While together at Google, they were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company.The quality just wasn’t there. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born. • LILT has been a machine learning company since its founding in 2015. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, human-in-the-loop systems, and now agentic AI. • With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing, the next phase of LILT’s journey is just beginning. • What sets our platform apart: • Brand-aware AI that learns your voice, tone, and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent • Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing • 100+ native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager, Webflow, Salesforce, GitHub, and Google Drive to simplify content translation • Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists, for high-impact content that requires expert review • LILT IN THE NEWS • Featured in The Software Report’s https://www.thesoftwarereport.com/the-top-100-software-companies-of-2024/ Top 100 Software Companies! • LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List https://labs.lilt.com/lilt-listed-on-the-2024-inc-5000. • LILT’s continues to be an intellectual powerhouse, holding numerous patents https://patents.justia.com/inventor/john-sturdy-denero that help power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry. • Check out all our news on our website https://lilt.com/news. • Information collected and processed as part of your application process, including any job applications you choose to submit, is subject to LILT's Privacy Policy at https://lilt.com/legal/privacy. • At LILT, we are committed to a fair, inclusive, and transparent hiring process. As part of our recruitment efforts, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) and automated tools to assist in the evaluation of applications, including résumé screening, assessment scoring, and interview analysis. These tools are designed to support human decision-making and help us identify qualified candidates efficiently and objectively. All final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have any concerns, require accommodations, or would like to opt-out of the use of AI in our hiring process, please let us know at [email protected].
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