Freelance AI Data Project Manager (NYC / LA - On-Site)

Toloka; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Freelance(B2B) collaboration

Fully remote schedule (40 hours/week)

Work at the cutting edge of AI

Projects with industry-leading clients

Friendly community

Job summary

Toloka AI is seeking a Freelance AI Data Project Manager based in New York City or Los Angeles to lead a virtual cross-functional delivery team. You will oversee client communications and internal coordination to ensure successful project implementation and deliver the best possible experience for clients.

The role focuses on coordinating engineers, supply managers, and other stakeholders across multiple projects, with a remote-first, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing complex projects from discovery to adoption.
• Client-facing experience is required.
• Able to switch quickly to new domains and subjects.
• Background in Consulting, Tech, or Competitors is a plus.
• Good understanding of LLMs and their lifecycle.
• Experience in data generation for AI applications.
• Proactive in suggesting process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery projects and oversee data quality, timelines, and stakeholder transparency.
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams and manage risks and issues.
• Manage delivery team operations: communication, planning, summaries, and retros.
• Drive efficiency and adoption initiatives across the organization.
• Suggest and implement process improvements for delivery excellence.

Skills

Cross-functional teams

Complex projects

Client facing

Agile

Consulting

Tech background

LLMs knowledge

Data generation

AI space experience

Job description

Company Intro

At Toloka AI we create data that powers leading GenAI models and innovations. We work with frontier labs, big tech, renowned AI startups, enterprises and non-profit research organizations worldwide. We use a combination of Experts + Crowd + Tech Platform to teach AI models to reason and evaluate their efficacy and safety. We have experts in more than 50 different domains—from doctors and lawyers to physicists and engineers—and boast one of the most diverse global crowds, representing over 100 countries and speaking 40+ languages. We are a well-funded startup with an enviable portfolio of clients including Anthropic , Amazon , Microsoft , poolside , Recraft , and Shopify.

Recently, we secured strategic investment led by Bezos Expeditions with participation from Mikhail Parakhin , CTO of Shopify and board advisor to leading GenAI companies, who now serves as our Chairman of the Board. Our remote-first team is globally distributed around the world: USA , UK , the Netherlands , Serbia , and more. We are headquartered in Amsterdam.

About position

We’re seeking a Freelance AI Data Project Manager based in New York City or Los Angeles to join Delivery team and help build,drive, and maintain solutions for our clients. Joining us in this role means you will lead a virtual cross-functional team managing successful project implementation. This involves both client communication and internal coordination.

The team consists of talented engineers of different kinds, supply managers and other departments on an ‘as needed’ basis. This is a key role for us to ensure we deliver the best possible experience for our clients and enable us to constantly grow our business.

Example Projects

• SFT (supervised fine tuning) data generation pipeline producing thousands of prompts and completions weekly across several languages and domains of knowledge;
• Evaluation pipeline helping to estimate LLMs’ responses quality and reaching a throughput of hundred thousands weekly;
• A red-teaming project helping to collect malicious prompts of different kinds to ensure models’ safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Take ultimate ownership for all delivery team projects, including data quality, delivery timelines, unit economics and overall transparency for stakeholders;
• Lead a cross-functional delivery team ensuring projects are on track, any issues and risks are highlighted and resolved proactively;
• Own operations of the delivery team: including internal and external communication, activities planning, posting summaries and status updates, conducting retros etc.;
• Drive and motivate the team, seek out change to increase the organization’s efficiency;
• Help roll out improvements to the delivery team focussing on increased adoption and providing feedback for further improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical cross-functional teams ;
• Experience managing complex projects including discovery, decomposition, scope planning, implementation and adoption;
• Client facing experience ;
• Being generally agile, able to switch quickly to new domains and subjects;
• Consulting , Tech , Competitors background is a big plus;
• Good understanding of LLMs and their life cycle in particular;
• Experience in data generation ;
• Experience and proactiveness in suggesting process changes is appreciated;
• Proven experience in the AI space , including working with clients and managing teams or projects at scale.

What we can offer

• Freelance(B2B)collaboration,withapathintoaprojectteamifthingsgowell;
• Flexible,fullyremoteschedule( 40hoursperweek );
• WorkattheleadingedgeofAIdevelopment,alongsideadedicatedanddynamicteamofexperts;
• ProjectswithcustomersthatareAIindustryleadersandwell-knownhouseholdnames;
• Friendlycommunity.