Labelbox

Labelbox

Strategic Project Lead

San Francisco Bay Area · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$170kDetected 32 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringControlsAR/VRResearch

About the role

  • The SPL runs the project on the ground - keeping throughput, delivery, and quality on track from kickoff through steady-state to final delivery.
  • As a rule, any project with a significant number of data trainers on it needs an SPL.
  • By owning the running of the project, the SPL frees the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to focus on higher-level technical and customer-facing work, and protects the Forward Deployed Researcher's (FDR) research time.

Responsibilities

  • Own project-level financials: track margin and fulfillment live, operate payment tiers, handle project billing/AR, and resolve data-trainer payment issues - flagging margin risk early and escalating margin-protecting changes to the comp structure to the Deployment Lead, who owns account-level margin.
  • Orchestrate the data-trainer workforce through Pod Leads - keeping trainers productive, paid, and organized, and using Pod-Lead first-line review as early quality signal - rather than managing hundreds of trainers directly.
  • Productive, well-run data-trainer teams via your Pod Leads.
  • We celebrate those who take ownership, move fast, and deliver impact.
  • We empower people to drive results through clear ownership and metrics.
  • Innovation at Speed: We celebrate those who take ownership, move fast, and deliver impact.

Requirements

  • Experience running operational projects or programs with many moving parts and people.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where processes are still being built.

Nice to have

  • Experience managing contractor or contingent workforces.
  • Experience with Airtable or similar operational tooling.
  • Experience owning billing, margin, or financial tracking for projects.
  • What Success Looks Like
  • In your first several months, you'll take ownership of a set of projects, get fluent in the platform tooling, and keep Airtable accurate and up to date.
  • 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

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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