Technical Operations Lead

Lemon.io; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lemon.io is seeking a Technical Operations Lead for a leading European AI lab. The role requires building scalable annotation and data-processing pipelines, owning end-to-end delivery, and communicating clearly with clients in English.

This is a full-time remote position with global collaboration across US and Europe. You will drive architectural decisions, ship production-ready solutions, and demonstrate measurable impact such as faster processing, lower costs, and improved reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial experience with Python.
• 3+ years of commercial experience in Project management.
• Built projects from scratch and made solid architecture decisions.
• Own problems end-to-end: identify, design, and ship solutions to production.
• Able to show business impact with concrete results and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical operations for AI annotation and model deployment at scale.
• Collaborate with client teams and Lemon.io internal partners across regions.
• Plan, design, and ship features to production with clear timelines.
• Identify bottlenecks, implement improvements, and optimize costs and performance.
• Present status and outcomes effectively to clients in executive calls.

Skills

Python

Project management

Architecture design

End-to-end ownership

Business impact articulation

English communication

Remote collaboration

Job description

the company helps companies in the US and Europe hire experienced engineers, from funded startups to teams like Klarna, Retool, and Pinterest. We’ve been doing this since 2015, and more than 1,500 companies have hired engineers through us. We are looking for a Technical Operations Lead for our client: a leading European AI lab working on advanced AI models and data annotation projects. They collaborate with the company to scale their annotation and technical operations teams.

Who we’re looking for

• Technical Operations Lead with: 5+ years of commercial experience with Python 3+ years of commercial experience in Project management
• You’ve built projects from scratch and made solid architecture decisions
• You own problems end-to-end: you spot the issue, design and build the solution, and ship it to production
• You can show the business impact of your work with concrete results (e.g., faster processing, lower costs, more users, fewer incidents)
• Advanced English: you discuss business tasks, explain your decisions, raise issues early, and present yourself and your results well on client calls
• You work full-time remotely and deliver without supervision
• You onboard quickly and start shipping in your first weeks

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We do not provide visa assistance, and our cooperation model does not include the benefits typically offered with direct hire. We work with developers from 75+ countries across Europe, Latin America, North America (the U.S. and Canada), selected countries in Asia (Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and Israel), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea), and Africa (including Morocco and South Africa).