Technical Program Manager - Data Annotation

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Program Manager to join our Science team, with a focus on data operations. The role is pivotal in accelerating research at Mistral AI and would be responsible for building and driving human data annotation programs and processes. You would be a critical link between our research, product, engineering, and annotation teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Collaborate closely with researchers to define campaign requirements, including task guidelines, timeline, budget, and success metrics.
2. Establish and maintain strong relationships with vendors and contractor teams to generate high-quality data, spanning phases across sourcing, contracts, onboarding/training, performance monitoring, etc.
3. Oversee and track the progress of collection campaigns, building dashboards for throughput, budget, quality, and spend.
4. Drive data quality audits and product evaluations, producing synthesized feedback and recommendations for key stakeholders.
5. Collaborate with engineers to track and implement feature requests and troubleshoot issues.

Qualifications & Profile

Experience: Minimum of 5 years' experience in managing technical programs, preferably in a science or data-related field.

Knowledge: Strong understanding of vendor management and data collection operations.

Skills: Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Great communication and stakeholder management skills are also essential.

Personal Attributes: Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work well under pressure. A proactive problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset.

Nice to have:

1. Experience with data collection, annotation, and analysis.
2. Experience in vendor and/or contractor management.
3. Understanding of and/or interest in LLMs.
4. Embraces hands-on, operational work.

Benefits

France

1. Food: Daily lunch vouchers.
2. Sport: Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription.
3. Transportation: Monthly contribution to a mobility pass.
4. Health: Full health insurance for you and your family.
5. Parental: Generous parental leave policy.
6. Visa sponsorship.

UK

1. Health: Competitive Healthcare program.
2. Pension: Monthly contribution.
3. Transportation: Monthly contribution.
4. Sport: Monthly contribution.
5. Visa sponsorship.

About Mistral

At Mistral AI, our mission is to make AI ubiquitous and open. We are passionate about bridging the gap between technology and businesses of all sizes. We are a leading innovator in the field of open-source large language models.

Our advanced LLM solutions can be seamlessly deployed on any cloud, allowing for optimized integration and robust performance. Developers are using our API via la Plateforme to build incredible AI-first applications powered by our models that can understand and generate natural language text and code. We are multilingual at our core. We released le Chat, as a demonstrator of our models.

We are a tight-knit, nimble team dedicated to bringing our cutting-edge AI technology to the world. Our teams are distributed between France, UK, and USA. We are creative, low-ego, team-spirited, and have been passionate about AI for years. We hire people who thrive in competitive environments because they find them more fun to work in. We hire passionate women and men from all over the world.

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