Technical Project Manager, Applied AI

About the role

The Technical Project Manager will lead data programs within the Applied AI team to improve automatic speech recognition for low-resource and long-tail languages. This role involves end-to-end program delivery, managing multilingual teams, and ensuring high standards for data quality and project timelines. It is a high-ownership position focused on building scalable approaches to complex AI data challenges.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program plans from pilot through scaled production and final delivery.
• Monitor output against volume and timeline targets and adjust workflows to address gaps.
• Manage delivery costs against budget and margin targets.
• Assemble and lead multilingual delivery teams to meet program goals.
• Ensure AI datasets meet customer standards and support model improvements.
• Translate program needs into tooling and automation improvements.

Required skills

• Service delivery
• Data annotation
• Transcription
• Content operations
• Team leadership
• Data analysis
• Quality assurance
• Project management

Nice to have

• Speech datasets
• Audio datasets
• ASR training
• Multilingual team management
• Data stewardship
• Annotation platforms
• Jira

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing high-volume, deadline-driven service delivery in data annotation, transcription, localization, content operations, BPO or a comparable field.

About the Company

LILT is a machine learning company founded in 2015 that uses cutting-edge AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise to make information accessible globally. The company is backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, and is trusted by major enterprises and government departments.