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

Toloka Ai; West Covina (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel expenses covered

Remote or hybrid option

Paid parental leave

Medical insurance

25 vacation days

Career development

Job summary

Toloka AI is seeking a Freelance AI Data Project Manager based in New York City or San Francisco to lead a cross-functional delivery team, manage client communications, and drive successful project implementations. You will coordinate engineers, supply managers and other specialists on an as-needed basis to deliver high-quality data solutions for GenAI models.

The role emphasizes ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement, with on-site requirements and options for remote or hybrid work

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical cross-functional teams and managing complex projects.
• Client-facing experience with stakeholder management and discovery phases.
• Being agile, able to switch domains quickly and adapt to changing scopes.
• Consulting, Tech, or Competitors background is a plus and beneficial.
• Strong understanding of LLM life cycle and data generation processes.

Responsibilities

• Take ultimate ownership for all delivery team projects, including data quality and delivery timelines.
• Lead a cross-functional delivery team, proactively addressing issues and risks.
• Own operations of the delivery team: internal/external comms, planning, status updates, retrospectives.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project management

Client facing

Agile

Consulting background

LLMs understanding

Data generation

Process improvement

AI industry experience

Job description

Company Intro

AtToloka AIwe 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 over100 countries and speaking 40+ languages. We are a well-funded startup with an enviable portfolio of clients includingAnthropic,Amazon,Microsoft,poolside,Recraft, andShopify.

Recently, we secured strategic investment led byBezos Expeditionswith participation fromMikhail Parakhin,CTO of Shopifyand 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 San Francisco 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 leadingtechnical cross-functional teams;
• Experiencemanagingcomplex projectsincluding discovery, decomposition, scope planning, implementation and adoption;
• Client facing experience;
• Being generally agile, able to switch quickly to new domains and subjects;
• Consulting,Tech,Competitorsbackground is a big plus;
• Good understanding of LLMs and their life cycle in particular;
• Experience indata generation;
• Experience and proactiveness in suggesting process changes is appreciated;
• Proven experience in theAI space, including working with clients and managing teams or projects at scale.

What we can offer

• On-site role based in either San Francisco or New York City (40 hours per week), with periodic travel across the city and surrounding areas to meet with clients. All business travel expenses are covered by the company;
• Personal and career development: we support employee’s ambition for professional development and encourage them to implement their ideas in their projects;
• Flexibility: we offer remote or hybrid employment. You will also design with your manager a workday that works best for you;
• Paid parental leave and sick leave;
• Medical insurance fully covered for the employee;
• 25 vacation days per year