Global Multilingual AI Data Programs Lead

lilt-corporate; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

lilt-corporate is seeking a senior operations/Applied AI role to lead multilingual data programs that power next-gen language models. You will coordinate global contributor networks, drive end-to-end annotation, evaluation, and safety initiatives from kickoff through retrospective.

You will manage pipelines for multilingual data collection across audio, text, and image modalities and oversee LLM evaluation efforts including RLHF and supervised fine-tuning.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of project management experience within AI or machine learning data operations.
• Knowledge of large language model training lifecycles (pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF) and evaluation methodologies.
• Advanced proficiency in spreadsheets and the ability to write SQL queries to extract and analyze operational data.
• Demonstrated success applying Agile, Scrum, or Kanban to manage complex, multi-stream workflows.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce unambiguous guidelines for multilingual audiences.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end delivery of AI data projects, including scoping, guideline development, execution, quality review, and post-mortem analysis.
• Manage pipelines for multilingual data collection across audio, text, and image modalities, alongside LLM evaluation efforts such as RLHF, supervised fine-tuning, ranking studies, and safety testing.
• Track and report KPIs spanning throughput, accuracy, inter-annotator agreement, gold-set performance, cost-per-task, and worker productivity.
• Run quality assurance loops, perform root-cause analysis when quality dips, deliver corrective training to contributor pools, and maintain real-time dashboards that surface bottlenecks.
• Coordinate with distributed teams of linguists and data specialists to meet service-level expectations around localization nuance and linguistic accuracy.
• Bridge technical requirements into clear, actionable instructions for non-technical annotators, and channel field insights back into guideline updates and model fine-tuning strategies.

Skills

Project management

SQL queries

Agile/ Scrum / Kanban

Communication

Tools

Jira

Scale AI

SuperAnnotate

Job description

lilt-corporate is seeking a senior operations/Applied AI role to lead multilingual data programs that power next-gen language models. You will coordinate global contributor networks, drive end-to-end annotation, evaluation, and safety initiatives from kickoff through retrospective.

You will manage pipelines for multilingual data collection across audio, text, and image modalities and oversee LLM evaluation efforts including RLHF and supervised fine-tuning.