About the role
Own complex data and evaluation programs for AI research teams and internal partners. This role brings together technical program management, data operations, and vendor coordination to deliver high-quality data that improves LLM and agent evaluation. Lead data and evaluation programs from scoping and requirements gathering through production, quality assurance, delivery, and retrospectives. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- At least 3 years of experience owning complex technical programs in AI/ML, data operations, support engineering, applied research, forward-deployed engineering, or a related cross-functional environment
- Experience as a Technical Program Manager or Strategic Program Lead at a startup, translating ambiguity into executable plans and maintaining momentum as requirements change
- Strong quantitative and qualitative judgment, with the ability to assess dataset quality using aggregate metrics and individual examples
- Experience improving data quality procedures, managing vendors, scaling delivery pipelines, and documenting or automating workflows
- Background supporting AI research teams, technical enterprise customers, or frontier AI labs with urgent, changing requirements
- Familiarity with RLHF, reinforcement-learning environments, agent evaluations, human-in-the-loop data pipelines, annotation, or expert data collection is valuable
More about this role
Own complex data and evaluation programs for AI research teams and internal partners. This role brings together technical program management, data operations, and vendor coordination to deliver high-quality data that improves LLM and agent evaluation.
Lead data and evaluation programs from scoping and requirements gathering through production, quality assurance, delivery, and retrospectives.
Turn ambiguous technical requests into specifications with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
Improve data quality processes using quantitative signals and qualitative review, including task coverage, difficulty, and reward distributions.
Manage external vendors throughout delivery and scale reliable production pipelines.
Improve workflows, documentation, automation, and cross-functional handoffs for data production and evaluation.
Work with research, platform, and marketplace teams to turn findings into product improvements.
At least 3 years of experience owning complex technical programs in AI/ML, data operations, support engineering, applied research, forward-deployed engineering, or a related cross-functional environment.
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