Strategic AI Post-Training Project Lead

Appen Limited; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Appen is seeking a Strategic Project Lead – AI Post-Training to guide data programs for frontier models. You will own end-to-end delivery, coordinating clients and internal teams, and shaping data requirements, workflows, and evaluation plans to improve model responses and performance.

Ideal candidates bring experience in AI data operations, post-training workflows, and stakeholder management, with a focus on quality standards and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years in AI data operations or delivery.
• Familiarity with at least one AI post-training or model evaluation workflow.
• Experience coordinating projects and communicating with clients.
• Understanding of data quality and annotation workflows.
• Ability to translate evolving requirements into workflows, rubrics, and measurable quality standards.
• Strong troubleshooting and organizational skills.
• Interest in frontier AI developments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project delivery, including scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, and risk management.
• Lead client communication, status reporting, planning sessions, and escalations.
• Translate model improvement objectives into data requirements, workflows, rubrics, and evaluation plans.
• Define quality standards and acceptance criteria for preference data, model comparisons, and evaluation outputs.
• Monitor delivery quality, investigate inconsistencies, and resolve ambiguous requirements with clients.
• Advise on data design, evaluation approaches, and project feasibility based on your domain expertise.
• Develop reusable guidelines, SOPs, and QA frameworks to improve consistency across programs.
• Mentor Operations Specialists and contribute to project scoping, pilots, and new capability development.

Skills

AI data ops

Project coordination

Client comms

Quality assurance

Workflow design

AI domain knowledge

Job description

Appen is seeking a Strategic Project Lead – AI Post-Training to guide data programs for frontier models. You will own end-to-end delivery, coordinating clients and internal teams, and shaping data requirements, workflows, and evaluation plans to improve model responses and performance.

Ideal candidates bring experience in AI data operations, post-training workflows, and stakeholder management, with a focus on quality standards and scalable processes.