{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bb7fb0b15329c61fb19d7d05","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bb7fb0b15329c61fb19d7d05","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bb7fb0b15329c61fb19d7d05","title":"Technical Program Manager","description":"Shape the Future of AI\nAt 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.\nAbout Labelbox\nWe're the only company offering three integrated solutions for frontier AI development:\nEnterprise Platform & Tools: Advanced annotation tools, workflow automation, and quality control systems that enable teams to produce high-quality training data at scale\nFrontier Data Labeling Service: Specialized data labeling through Alignerr, leveraging subject matter experts for next-generation AI models\nExpert Marketplace: Connecting AI teams with highly skilled annotators and domain experts for flexible scaling\nWhy Join Us\nHigh-Impact Environment: We operate like an early-stage startup, focusing on impact over process. You'll take on expanded responsibilities quickly, with career growth directly tied to your contributions.\nTechnical Excellence: Work at the cutting edge of AI development, collaborating with industry leaders and shaping the future of artificial intelligence.\nInnovation at Speed: We celebrate those who take ownership, move fast, and deliver impact. Our environment rewards high agency and rapid execution.\nContinuous Growth: Every role requires continuous learning and evolution. You'll be surrounded by curious minds solving complex problems at the frontier of AI.\nClear Ownership: You'll know exactly what you're responsible for and have the autonomy to execute. We empower people to drive results through clear ownership and metrics.\nRole Overview\nAbout the Role\nThe Technical Program Manager owns the day-to-day execution of our customer data projects. The TPM 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 a TPM.\nTPMs own the operational core of a project: setting it up, bringing data trainers on, running it through its gates (calibration before scaling, staged ramp, delivery acceptance), tracking fulfillment and project margin, operating payment tiers, and keeping Airtable current as the system of record. By owning the running of the project, the TPM 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.\nThe TPM sits at the intersection of operations, finance, and people coordination. They aren't bound to a single domain — they work across whatever projects need them. A key part of the role is keeping the FDE and FDR connected as a project kicks off, and orchestrating the data-trainer workforce through Pod Leads, who are central to the TPM's ability to deliver on complex projects.\nThe TPM reports to the TPM Manager for craft and career, and on the ground takes delivery direction from the Deployment Lead on accounts that have one (the Deployment Lead owns the customer's delivery end-to-end and coordinates TPMs across its projects). It's a senior operating track: TPMs can grow into TPM Manager (managing other TPMs) or Deployment Lead (the customer-facing path), and from there toward a General Manager role.\nWhat You'll Do\nRun assigned projects day-to-day, owning throughput, delivery, and operational quality from kickoff through delivery; a TPM is staffed on any project with a meaningful number of data trainers.\nRun each project through its gates: calibrate before scaling, ramp in stages while quality holds, and meet acceptance criteria at delivery — so quality is enforced in flight, not discovered at the end.\nSet up projects and bring data trainers on using the platform tooling, configuring the right setup for different project types.\nKeep Airtable accurate as the system of record — tasks and status always current — owning tracking across internal projects (fulfillment, data-trainer tracking, sheets) and external projects (glide-path templates and margin tracking).\nOwn 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.\nKeep the FDE and FDR connected as the project kicks off, so technical scoping and research inputs land in the work.\nOrchestrate 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.\nIdentify delivery risks early, put mitigations in place, and escalate when throughput, quality, or timelines are at risk.\nWork flexibly across projects and domains as priorities shift.\nWhat You'll Own\nYour projects delivered to plan — on time, to the quality bar, and at healthy project margin.\nThroughput and fulfillment against commitments.\nA clean system of record (Airtable always current) and a live view of project margin.\nProductive, well-run data-trainer teams via your Pod Leads.\nWhat We're Looking For\nExperience running operational projects or programs with many moving parts and people.\nStrong organizational and tracking discipline — comfortable owning dashboards, sheets, and a system of record such as Airtable.\nOperational and financial literacy: ease with throughput metrics, margin, and billing/AR.\nAbility to coordinate and orchestrate multiple stakeholders — engineers, researchers, and a contingent workforce through its leads — and keep them aligned.\nA bias toward action, calm under pressure, and a habit of catching problems before they become delivery issues.\nComfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where processes are still being built.\nThe ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously without losing attention to detail.\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with AI, machine learning, data pipelines, RLHF, or data-labeling/annotation operations.\nExperience managing contractor or contingent workforces.\nExperience with Airtable or similar operational tooling.\nExperience owning billing, margin, or financial tracking for projects.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn 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. You'll hit throughput, quality, and delivery targets, run your projects cleanly through calibration and ramp without quality surprises, build strong working relationships with the FDEs, FDRs, Pod Leads, and Deployment Leads you work alongside, and become the reliable owner of project operations — the person who keeps the FDE–FDR partnership connected and the data trainers productive.\nOver time, you'll take on larger and more complex projects, mentor newer TPMs, and build toward TPM Manager or Deployment Lead — and, in time, a path toward General Manager.\nLife at Labelbox\nLocation: Join our dedicated tech hub in San Francisco\nWork Style: Hybrid model with 3 days per week in office, combining collaboration and flexibility\nEnvironment: Fast-paced and high-intensity, perfect for ambitious individuals who thrive on ownership and quick decision-making\nGrowth: Career advancement opportunities directly tied to your impact\nVision: Be part of building the foundation for humanity's most transformative technology\nOur Vision\nWe believe data will remain crucial in achieving artificial general intelligence. As AI models become more sophisticated, the need for high-quality, specialized training data will only grow. Join us in developing new products and services that enable the next generation of AI breakthroughs.\nLabelbox is backed by leading investors including SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Gradient Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading AI labs.\nYour Personal Data Privacy: Any personal information you provide Labelbox as a part of your application will be processed in accordance with Labelbox's Job Applicant Privacy notice.\nAny emails from Labelbox team members will originate from a @labelbox.com email address. If you encounter anything that raises suspicions during your interactions, we encourage you to exercise caution and suspend or discontinue communications.","company":"Labelbox","rawCompany":"labelbox","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-20T12:40:04.210Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Technical Program Manager","description":"Shape the Future of AI\nAt 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.\nAbout Labelbox\nWe're the only company offering three integrated solutions for frontier AI development:\nEnterprise Platform & Tools: Advanced annotation tools, workflow automation, and quality control systems that enable teams to produce high-quality training data at scale\nFrontier Data Labeling Service: Specialized data labeling through Alignerr, leveraging subject matter experts for next-generation AI models\nExpert Marketplace: Connecting AI teams with highly skilled annotators and domain experts for flexible scaling\nWhy Join Us\nHigh-Impact Environment: We operate like an early-stage startup, focusing on impact over process. You'll take on expanded responsibilities quickly, with career growth directly tied to your contributions.\nTechnical Excellence: Work at the cutting edge of AI development, collaborating with industry leaders and shaping the future of artificial intelligence.\nInnovation at Speed: We celebrate those who take ownership, move fast, and deliver impact. Our environment rewards high agency and rapid execution.\nContinuous Growth: Every role requires continuous learning and evolution. You'll be surrounded by curious minds solving complex problems at the frontier of AI.\nClear Ownership: You'll know exactly what you're responsible for and have the autonomy to execute. We empower people to drive results through clear ownership and metrics.\nRole Overview\nAbout the Role\nThe Technical Program Manager owns the day-to-day execution of our customer data projects. The TPM 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 a TPM.\nTPMs own the operational core of a project: setting it up, bringing data trainers on, running it through its gates (calibration before scaling, staged ramp, delivery acceptance), tracking fulfillment and project margin, operating payment tiers, and keeping Airtable current as the system of record. By owning the running of the project, the TPM 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.\nThe TPM sits at the intersection of operations, finance, and people coordination. They aren't bound to a single domain — they work across whatever projects need them. A key part of the role is keeping the FDE and FDR connected as a project kicks off, and orchestrating the data-trainer workforce through Pod Leads, who are central to the TPM's ability to deliver on complex projects.\nThe TPM reports to the TPM Manager for craft and career, and on the ground takes delivery direction from the Deployment Lead on accounts that have one (the Deployment Lead owns the customer's delivery end-to-end and coordinates TPMs across its projects). It's a senior operating track: TPMs can grow into TPM Manager (managing other TPMs) or Deployment Lead (the customer-facing path), and from there toward a General Manager role.\nWhat You'll Do\nRun assigned projects day-to-day, owning throughput, delivery, and operational quality from kickoff through delivery; a TPM is staffed on any project with a meaningful number of data trainers.\nRun each project through its gates: calibrate before scaling, ramp in stages while quality holds, and meet acceptance criteria at delivery — so quality is enforced in flight, not discovered at the end.\nSet up projects and bring data trainers on using the platform tooling, configuring the right setup for different project types.\nKeep Airtable accurate as the system of record — tasks and status always current — owning tracking across internal projects (fulfillment, data-trainer tracking, sheets) and external projects (glide-path templates and margin tracking).\nOwn 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.\nKeep the FDE and FDR connected as the project kicks off, so technical scoping and research inputs land in the work.\nOrchestrate 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.\nIdentify delivery risks early, put mitigations in place, and escalate when throughput, quality, or timelines are at risk.\nWork flexibly across projects and domains as priorities shift.\nWhat You'll Own\nYour projects delivered to plan — on time, to the quality bar, and at healthy project margin.\nThroughput and fulfillment against commitments.\nA clean system of record (Airtable always current) and a live view of project margin.\nProductive, well-run data-trainer teams via your Pod Leads.\nWhat We're Looking For\nExperience running operational projects or programs with many moving parts and people.\nStrong organizational and tracking discipline — comfortable owning dashboards, sheets, and a system of record such as Airtable.\nOperational and financial literacy: ease with throughput metrics, margin, and billing/AR.\nAbility to coordinate and orchestrate multiple stakeholders — engineers, researchers, and a contingent workforce through its leads — and keep them aligned.\nA bias toward action, calm under pressure, and a habit of catching problems before they become delivery issues.\nComfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where processes are still being built.\nThe ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously without losing attention to detail.\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with AI, machine learning, data pipelines, RLHF, or data-labeling/annotation operations.\nExperience managing contractor or contingent workforces.\nExperience with Airtable or similar operational tooling.\nExperience owning billing, margin, or financial tracking for projects.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn 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. You'll hit throughput, quality, and delivery targets, run your projects cleanly through calibration and ramp without quality surprises, build strong working relationships with the FDEs, FDRs, Pod Leads, and Deployment Leads you work alongside, and become the reliable owner of project operations — the person who keeps the FDE–FDR partnership connected and the data trainers productive.\nOver time, you'll take on larger and more complex projects, mentor newer TPMs, and build toward TPM Manager or Deployment Lead — and, in time, a path toward General Manager.\nLife at Labelbox\nLocation: Join our dedicated tech hub in San Francisco\nWork Style: Hybrid model with 3 days per week in office, combining collaboration and flexibility\nEnvironment: Fast-paced and high-intensity, perfect for ambitious individuals who thrive on ownership and quick decision-making\nGrowth: Career advancement opportunities directly tied to your impact\nVision: Be part of building the foundation for humanity's most transformative technology\nOur Vision\nWe believe data will remain crucial in achieving artificial general intelligence. As AI models become more sophisticated, the need for high-quality, specialized training data will only grow. Join us in developing new products and services that enable the next generation of AI breakthroughs.\nLabelbox is backed by leading investors including SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Gradient Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading AI labs.\nYour Personal Data Privacy: Any personal information you provide Labelbox as a part of your application will be processed in accordance with Labelbox's Job Applicant Privacy notice.\nAny emails from Labelbox team members will originate from a @labelbox.com email address. 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