Labelbox

Labelbox

Strategic Project Lead, Manager

San Francisco Bay Area · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$250kDetected 32 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringCadenceControlsAR/VRResearchLeadership

About the role

  • This role sits at the intersection of people leadership, operational rigor, and financial discipline.
  • It's a player-coach role: the SPL Manager must understand project operations well enough to coach on setup and tracking, pressure-test delivery plans, and judge where throughput, margin, or quality is at risk before it becomes a delivery issue.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the SPL team end-to-end: hire, coach, manage performance, and develop careers across the SPL track and toward Deployment Lead or GM.
  • Own the weekly staffing cadence and the shared capacity view: allocate SPLs across the portfolio, balance capacity against where the work is, and ensure every project with a meaningful number of data trainers and an SPL - partnering with the FDE Manager, who commits FDE supply into the same cadence.
  • Own the operational-financial bar across the team - margin visibility, AR/billing hygiene, and payment-tier management - and coach SPLs to manage it well
  • account-level margin ownership sits with the Deployment Leads.
  • Own SPL onboarding and the bar that certifies an SPL as ready to run projects solo: the ~2-week boot camp, including the tooling deep-dives (payment tiers, internal/external tracking, Airtable, Growth) and the initial exercise (set up a fake project end-to-end using the add-data-trainer tools, across different project types).
  • Ensure SPLs keep the FDE and FDR connected at project kickoff, and that they orchestrate the data-trainer workforce through Pod Leads on complex projects.
  • Partner with the FDE Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs on staffing, delivery, and alignment with customer objectives.
  • Establish operating cadences, dashboards, and escalation paths that create visibility and accountability across the portfolio.
  • Build the repeatable processes, templates, and playbooks that make the SPL function more efficient as the organization scales.
  • Own the operational-financial bar across the team - margin visibility, AR/billing hygiene, and payment-tier management - and coach SPLs to manage it well; account-level margin ownership sits with the Deployment Leads.

Requirements

  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where processes are still being built.

Nice to have

  • Experience managing contractor or contingent workforces at scale.
  • Experience owning margin, billing, or financial tracking across a portfolio of projects.
  • What Success Looks Like
  • In your first several months, you'll take ownership of the SPL team, get every active project appropriately staffed, and raise the bar on project setup, tracking, and Airtable hygiene.
  • Labelbox strives to ensure pay parity across the organization and discuss compensation transparently.
  • Life at Labelbox

Skills

  • Advanced annotation tools, workflow automation, and quality control systems that enable teams to produce high-quality training data at scale
  • Step in on escalations when throughput, margin, quality, or a delivery timeline is at risk.
  • Every active project appropriately staffed - the staffing cadence and capacity view kept current.
  • Portfolio-wide visibility into throughput, margin, and delivery risk.

Compensation

  • Labelbox strives to ensure pay parity across the organization and discuss compensation transparently.

Benefits

  • Continuous Growth: Every role requires continuous learning and evolution.

Company info

  • Shape the Future of AI
  • At Labelbox, we're building the critical infrastructure that powers breakthrough AI models at leading research labs and enterprises.
  • Since 2018, we've been pioneering data-centric approaches that are fundamental to AI development, and our work becomes even more essential as AI capabilities expand exponentially.
  • About Labelbox
  • We're the only company offering three integrated solutions for frontier
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