Strategic Multimodal AI Project Lead

Appen Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Appen Limited in London is seeking a Strategic Project Lead – Multimodal AI to manage end-to-end data programs for frontier AI projects. You’ll combine project management with domain knowledge in multimodal data workflows, coordinating with clients and internal teams to design workflows, maintain quality and deliver data resources for training and evaluation.

The role emphasizes strong communication, quality standards, and mentorship of Operations Specialists, with flexibility in how you work to

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years of experience in AI data operations, project coordination, or delivery.
• Familiarity with multimodal data workflows involving images, video, 3D data, sensors, or robotics.
• Experience coordinating projects or workstreams, managing stakeholders, and communicating with clients.
• Understanding of data quality, annotation workflows, and quality assurance methods.
• Ability to translate project requirements into clear data collection workflows, annotation guidelines, and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project delivery across scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, and risks.
• Lead client communication, status reporting, planning sessions, and escalations.
• Translate technical and client requirements into data collection workflows, annotation guidelines, tooling, and quality standards.
• Define quality metrics and acceptance criteria for multimodal data and annotation outputs.
• Monitor delivery quality, troubleshoot data issues, and resolve ambiguous requirements with clients.
• Advise on project feasibility, collection methods, annotation approaches, and tooling based on domain expertise.
• Build reusable SOPs, guidelines, and QA frameworks to support consistent delivery.
• Mentor Operations Specialists and contribute to project scoping, pilots, and emerging multimodal AI capabilities.

Skills

AI data ops

Project coordination

Client communication

Quality assurance

Job description

Appen Limited in London is seeking a Strategic Project Lead – Multimodal AI to manage end-to-end data programs for frontier AI projects. You’ll combine project management with domain knowledge in multimodal data workflows, coordinating with clients and internal teams to design workflows, maintain quality and deliver data resources for training and evaluation.

The role emphasizes strong communication, quality standards, and mentorship of Operations Specialists, with flexibility in how you work to