Technical PM, Applied AI — Multilingual Data Programs

Lilt; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

LILT is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead data programs improving ASR for low-resource languages. You’ll own end-to-end program delivery, coordinating multilingual teams, language experts, and engineers to meet customer goals on time and within budget.

This four-month fixed-term contract requires 4–6 hours per day and offers opportunities to build scalable approaches to AI data challenges while maintaining high standards for privacy and data handling.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing high-volume, deadline-driven service delivery in data annotation, transcription, localization, content operations, BPO or similar.
• Demonstrated success leading distributed teams to meet delivery and quality goals.
• Strong ability to use data, dashboards, and forecasting to guide decisions on delivery, quality, and cost.
• Working knowledge of quality assurance for AI training data, including evaluation, sampling, and acceptance criteria.
• Excellent written English and the ability to write unambiguous instructions for multilingual contributors.
• Able to commit for the full contract term.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program plans, from pilot and calibration through scaled production and final delivery, aligning scope, staffing, and milestones with customer requirements.
• Monitor output against volume and timeline targets, forecast delivery using actual performance, and adjust capacity or workflows to address gaps.
• Lead readiness reviews, quality checkpoints, and acceptance milestones, coordinating stakeholders and driving timely decisions.
• Build and lead multilingual delivery teams with the expertise needed for complex AI data programs.
• Translate program needs into tooling and automation improvements that enable efficient, high-quality AI data delivery.

Skills

Delivery management

Team leadership

Analytical skills

Quality assurance

Written English

Change management

Availability

Tools

Jira

Annotation platforms

Job description

LILT is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead data programs improving ASR for low-resource languages. You’ll own end-to-end program delivery, coordinating multilingual teams, language experts, and engineers to meet customer goals on time and within budget.

This four-month fixed-term contract requires 4–6 hours per day and offers opportunities to build scalable approaches to AI data challenges while maintaining high standards for privacy and data handling.