Lilt
Head of Technical Program Management, Applied AI
$191K–$250K
USA +3 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- USA
Boston, MA
New York, NY
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 10+ years in delivery, operations, or program leadership, including 5+ years managing managers or multi-team delivery organizations; 5+ years of direct people management. Education qualification also specifies 12+ years with a B.S. or M.S., or 8+ years with a Ph.D.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, AI, or a related technical field with 12+ years of industry experience (or Ph.D. with 8+ years).
About the job
Leads and scales Applied AI program delivery, owning customer outcomes, team operations, quality, and execution across multilingual and multimodal AI data, evaluation, and benchmark engagements.
What you'll do
- Own delivery outcomes, timelines, quality SLAs, margins, and customer satisfaction across Applied AI programs.
- Build and lead the TPM and project management team; establish delivery processes, capacity planning, and operating systems.
- Partner with AI lab customers and internal teams on workflows, quality systems, escalations, and program scope.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in delivery, operations, or program leadership, including 5+ years managing managers or multi-team delivery organizations.
- 5+ years of direct people management building and scaling TPM, Product, or Engineering teams in high-growth AI or enterprise technology environments.
- Hands-on experience delivering AI training data, human data, LLM evaluation, annotation, or localization programs at scale; deep understanding of LLMs, multimodal models, training/inference pipelines, and dataset diversity.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, AI, or a related technical field with 12+ years of industry experience, or Ph.D. with 8+ years.
Nice to have
- Experience at an AI data, human data, or language services company, or delivering for frontier AI labs.
- Experience leading globally distributed teams; familiarity with Python and modern program tooling; or fluency in multiple human languages.
Pay
$191K – $250K (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, SQL, Python, Linear, Jira
AI focus
Leads operational delivery of multilingual and multimodal AI training data, evaluations, benchmarks, and annotation programs; owns quality systems including LLM-as-a-judge evaluation and model evaluation pipelines.
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