Production Strategist (AI Data Services)

LILT; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI communication company is seeking a Strategist for their Data Services team in Greater London. This role involves consulting with enterprise clients on data annotation and AI training programs, managing stakeholder relationships, and ensuring project quality. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in program management, excellent communication skills, and a background in risk management. Health care coverage, equity options, and a monthly benefits stipend are included in the compensation package.

Benefits

At-market salary

Health insurance

Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend

Qualifications

• 8 years of related experience managing enterprise-level programs.
• Able to develop and lead large-scale programs autonomously.
• Experience in risk management, RCA, and CAPA procedures.

Responsibilities

• Consult with enterprise customers to understand their data needs.
• Lead implementation of processes to meet requirements.
• Manage program risks by identifying quality issues early.

Skills

Management of enterprise-level programs

Customer onboarding

Risk management

Internal communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Multitasking

Attention to detail

Job description

About LILT

AI is changing how the world communicates and LILT is leading that transformation.

We're on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting‑edge AI machine translation and human‑in‑the‑loop expertise to translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost‑effectively without compromising brand voice or quality.

At LILT we empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues are Work together win together; Find a way or make one; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1 guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation, Canva, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, ASICS, and hundreds of global enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint we are building a category‑defining company in a $50B global translation market being redefined by AI.

What You'll Do

Come join our Data Services team! As a Strategist you will provide expertise, consultation, and best‑practice approaches to LILT partners and customers, helping them successfully launch and scale complex data annotation and AI training programs. You will collaborate with a range of customer stakeholders and internal teams including solutions architects, engineers, product managers, annotators, quality specialists and project managers to design and maintain an optimal program‑management framework for high‑quality data delivery.

As a senior team member you will be responsible for stakeholder management, risk management, process design and performance tracking across large‑scale accounts. You will drive improvements in data workflows, tooling and quality systems to meet customer KPIs and SLAs and identify opportunities for efficiency and scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Consult with enterprise customers to understand their data needs for AI/ML projects and align on KPIs (e.g., data quality, turnaround time, throughput) and SLAs.
• Lead implementation of processes and systems to meet customer requirements including data collection, annotation workflows, quality control, billing and delivery.
• Ensure effective application of standardized procedures to annotation and labeling workflows.
• Manage program risks by identifying potential delivery or quality issues early, communicating clearly with stakeholders and defining mitigation plans.
• Lead new customer onboarding, ensuring accelerated time to first dataset delivery.
• Scope and price new data services, including proposing SLAs for annotation speed, accuracy and quality review cycles.
• Provide real‑time support in‑region for customers on critical data operations and strategic initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement, including remediating quality issues, improving tooling or refining annotation guidelines.
• Track and measure account performance against KPIs such as dataset quality (accuracy, consistency), delivery timelines (turnaround, throughput), customer SLAs (coverage, responsiveness).
• Direct and prioritize tasks for production resources (annotators, QA, project managers) to meet and exceed KPIs.
• Report internally and externally on data services metrics, highlighting trends and proactively addressing shortfalls with action plans.
• Communicate seamlessly with customer contacts, annotation teams, engineers, and internal stakeholders.
• Lead root‑cause analysis and corrective actions for escalations.
• Conduct post‑mortem on key initiatives and share findings and learnings to improve future data operations.

Issue Resolution Time

• Direct and prioritize tasks for production resources (annotators, QA, project managers) to meet and exceed KPIs.
• Report internally and externally on data services metrics highlighting trends.
• Communicate seamlessly with stakeholders.
• Lead root‑cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Conduct post‑mortem on key initiatives.

Skills and Experience

• 8 years of related experience managing enterprise‑level programs.
• Customer onboarding experience.
• Able to develop and lead large‑scale programs both autonomously and by mobilizing a team of resources.
• Experience in risk management, RCA and CAPA procedures as they apply to enterprise programs.
• Excellent client‑facing and internal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail and ability to multitask.
• Analytical and organized problem‑solving abilities.
• Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure.

Benefits

• Compensation: At‑market salary, meaningful equity, pension scheme contribution, and time off plus company holidays.
• Health care: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance. LILT pays for basic life assurance.
• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle.

Our Story

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 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.

Our Tech

• 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.

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Employment Details

Employment Type: Full‑Time

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