{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e19488e89315912378f268f1","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e19488e89315912378f268f1","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e19488e89315912378f268f1","title":"Manager, Technical Program Managers","description":"Shape the Future of AI\r\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.\r\nAbout Labelbox\r\nWe're the only company offering three integrated solutions for frontier AI development:\r\nEnterprise Platform & Tools : Advanced annotation tools, workflow automation, and quality control systems that enable teams to produce high-quality training data at scale\r\nFrontier Data Labeling Service : Specialized data labeling through Alignerr, leveraging subject matter experts for next-generation AI models\r\nExpert Marketplace : Connecting AI teams with highly skilled annotators and domain experts for flexible scaling\r\nWhy Join Us\r\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.\r\nTechnical Excellence : Work at the cutting edge of AI development, collaborating with industry leaders and shaping the future of artificial intelligence.\r\nInnovation at Speed : We celebrate those who take ownership, move fast, and deliver impact. Our environment rewards high agency and rapid execution.\r\nContinuous Growth : Every role requires continuous learning and evolution. You'll be surrounded by curious minds solving complex problems at the frontier of AI.\r\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.\r\nRole Overview\r\nAbout the Role\r\nThe TPM Manager leads and grows the team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) who run the day-to-day execution of our customer data projects. TPMs own the operational core of each project — set up, bringing data trainers on, throughput and fulfillment tracking, project margin, payment tiers, running projects through their gates, and keeping Airtable current as the system of record. The TPM Manager owns the people who do that work: their craft, their growth, and how they're deployed across the portfolio.\r\nThis role sits at the intersection of people leadership, operational rigor, and financial discipline. It's a player-coach role: the TPM Manager must understand project operations well enough to coach on set up and tracking, pressure-test delivery plans, and judge where throughput, margin, or quality is at risk before it becomes a delivery issue.\r\nThe TPM Manager reports to the Services lead and partners closely with the FDE Manager, Deployment Leads, and General Managers. Because TPMs aren't bound to a single domain and any project with a significant number of data trainers needs one, a core part of the role is owning the staffing cadence — allocating TPMs across a shifting portfolio and reconciling project demand against capacity so every project is staffed and running well.\r\nThis role is equivalent in seniority to a Deployment Lead, with a stronger emphasis on managing the TPM team and the operational engine rather than direct customer ownership. The TPM Manager is also the steward of the TPM career path — TPM to TPM 2 to TPM Manager, with a branch to Deployment Lead and, in time, toward General Manager.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nLead the TPM team end-to-end: hire, coach, manage performance, and develop careers across the TPM track and toward Deployment Lead or GM.\r\nOwn the weekly staffing cadence and the shared capacity view: allocate TPMs across the portfolio, balance capacity against where the work is, and ensure every project with a meaningful number of data trainers has a TPM — partnering with the FDE Manager, who commits FDE supply into the same cadence.\r\nSet and uphold the operational bar: clean project set up, accurate tracking, disciplined Airtable hygiene, projects run through their gates (calibration before scaling, staged ramp, delivery acceptance), and reliable throughput, quality, and delivery.\r\nOwn the operational-financial bar across the team — margin visibility, AR/billing hygiene, and payment-tier management — and coach TPMs to manage it well; account-level margin ownership sits with the Deployment Leads.\r\nOwn TPM onboarding and the bar that certifies a TPM 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).\r\nEnsure TPMs keep the FDE and FDR connected at project kickoff, and that they orchestrate the data-trainer workforce through Pod Leads on complex projects.\r\nPartner with the FDE Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs on staffing, delivery, and alignment with customer objectives.\r\nEstablish operating cadences, dashboards, and escalation paths that create visibility and accountability across the portfolio.\r\nStep in on escalations when throughput, margin, quality, or a delivery timeline is at risk.\r\nBuild the repeatable processes, templates, and playbooks that make the TPM function more efficient as the organization scales.\r\nWhat You'll Own\r\nThe capability and operational bar of the TPM team.\r\nEvery active project appropriately staffed — the staffing cadence and capacity view kept current.\r\nPortfolio-wide visibility into throughput, margin, and delivery risk.\r\nHow quickly and consistently new TPMs reach a solo-ready standard, and a growing bench of TPMs developing toward Deployment Lead.\r\nWhat We're Looking For\r\nSignificant experience managing operational or delivery teams, or a strong TPM/program-management background and readiness to manage as a hands-on, player-coach.\r\nStrong operational and financial fluency: comfort with throughput metrics, margin, billing/AR, and systems of record such as Airtable.\r\nExcellent judgment in distinguishing operational issues from staffing issues from delivery issues, and determining the right path to resolution.\r\nA track record of developing people and giving direct, useful feedback.\r\nA high bar for execution paired with the ability to deliver against ambitious timelines.\r\nThe ability to manage many concurrent projects and people without losing attention to detail.\r\nComfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where processes are still being built.\r\nNice to Have\r\nFamiliarity with AI, machine learning, data pipelines, RLHF, or data-labeling/annotation operations.\r\nExperience managing contractor or contingent workforces at scale.\r\nExperience owning margin, billing, or financial tracking across a portfolio of projects.\r\nExperience building onboarding programs and repeatable operating systems for a rapidly scaling organization.\r\nWhat Success Looks Like\r\nIn your first several months, you'll take ownership of the TPM team, get every active project appropriately staffed, and raise the bar on project set up, tracking, and Airtable hygiene. You'll get TPM onboarding running smoothly — with new TPMs reaching a solo-ready standard faster — build strong working relationships with the FDE Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs, and establish clear visibility into throughput, margin, and delivery risk across the portfolio.\r\nOver time, you'll define how the TPM function operates at scale, develop TPMs into Deployment Leads and future leaders, and build the playbooks and operating systems that keep the engine running as the organization grows.\r\nAnnual Base Salary Range\r\nLabelbox strives to ensure pay parity across the organization and discusses compensation transparently. The expected annual base salary range for United States-based candidates is below. This range is not inclusive of any potential equity packages or additional benefits. Exact compensation varies based on a variety of factors, including skills and competencies, experience, and geographical location.\r\n$140,000 – $170,000 USD\r\nLife at Labelbox\r\nLocation : Join our dedicated tech hub in San Francisco.\r\nWork Style : Hybrid model with 3 days per week in office, combining collaboration and flexibility.\r\nEnvironment : Fast-paced and high-intensity, perfect for ambitious individuals who thrive on ownership and quick decision-making.\r\nGrowth : Career advancement opportunities directly tied to your impact.\r\nVision : Be part of building the foundation for humanity's most transformative technology.\r\nOur Vision\r\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.\r\nLabelbox is backed by leading investors including SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Gradient Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins. 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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.\r\nAbout Labelbox\r\nWe're the only company offering three integrated solutions for frontier AI development:\r\nEnterprise Platform & Tools : Advanced annotation tools, workflow automation, and quality control systems that enable teams to produce high-quality training data at scale\r\nFrontier Data Labeling Service : Specialized data labeling through Alignerr, leveraging subject matter experts for next-generation AI models\r\nExpert Marketplace : Connecting AI teams with highly skilled annotators and domain experts for flexible scaling\r\nWhy Join Us\r\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.\r\nTechnical Excellence : Work at the cutting edge of AI development, collaborating with industry leaders and shaping the future of artificial intelligence.\r\nInnovation at Speed : We celebrate those who take ownership, move fast, and deliver impact. Our environment rewards high agency and rapid execution.\r\nContinuous Growth : Every role requires continuous learning and evolution. You'll be surrounded by curious minds solving complex problems at the frontier of AI.\r\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.\r\nRole Overview\r\nAbout the Role\r\nThe TPM Manager leads and grows the team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) who run the day-to-day execution of our customer data projects. TPMs own the operational core of each project — set up, bringing data trainers on, throughput and fulfillment tracking, project margin, payment tiers, running projects through their gates, and keeping Airtable current as the system of record. The TPM Manager owns the people who do that work: their craft, their growth, and how they're deployed across the portfolio.\r\nThis role sits at the intersection of people leadership, operational rigor, and financial discipline. It's a player-coach role: the TPM Manager must understand project operations well enough to coach on set up and tracking, pressure-test delivery plans, and judge where throughput, margin, or quality is at risk before it becomes a delivery issue.\r\nThe TPM Manager reports to the Services lead and partners closely with the FDE Manager, Deployment Leads, and General Managers. Because TPMs aren't bound to a single domain and any project with a significant number of data trainers needs one, a core part of the role is owning the staffing cadence — allocating TPMs across a shifting portfolio and reconciling project demand against capacity so every project is staffed and running well.\r\nThis role is equivalent in seniority to a Deployment Lead, with a stronger emphasis on managing the TPM team and the operational engine rather than direct customer ownership. The TPM Manager is also the steward of the TPM career path — TPM to TPM 2 to TPM Manager, with a branch to Deployment Lead and, in time, toward General Manager.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nLead the TPM team end-to-end: hire, coach, manage performance, and develop careers across the TPM track and toward Deployment Lead or GM.\r\nOwn the weekly staffing cadence and the shared capacity view: allocate TPMs across the portfolio, balance capacity against where the work is, and ensure every project with a meaningful number of data trainers has a TPM — partnering with the FDE Manager, who commits FDE supply into the same cadence.\r\nSet and uphold the operational bar: clean project set up, accurate tracking, disciplined Airtable hygiene, projects run through their gates (calibration before scaling, staged ramp, delivery acceptance), and reliable throughput, quality, and delivery.\r\nOwn the operational-financial bar across the team — margin visibility, AR/billing hygiene, and payment-tier management — and coach TPMs to manage it well; account-level margin ownership sits with the Deployment Leads.\r\nOwn TPM onboarding and the bar that certifies a TPM 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).\r\nEnsure TPMs keep the FDE and FDR connected at project kickoff, and that they orchestrate the data-trainer workforce through Pod Leads on complex projects.\r\nPartner with the FDE Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs on staffing, delivery, and alignment with customer objectives.\r\nEstablish operating cadences, dashboards, and escalation paths that create visibility and accountability across the portfolio.\r\nStep in on escalations when throughput, margin, quality, or a delivery timeline is at risk.\r\nBuild the repeatable processes, templates, and playbooks that make the TPM function more efficient as the organization scales.\r\nWhat You'll Own\r\nThe capability and operational bar of the TPM team.\r\nEvery active project appropriately staffed — the staffing cadence and capacity view kept current.\r\nPortfolio-wide visibility into throughput, margin, and delivery risk.\r\nHow quickly and consistently new TPMs reach a solo-ready standard, and a growing bench of TPMs developing toward Deployment Lead.\r\nWhat We're Looking For\r\nSignificant experience managing operational or delivery teams, or a strong TPM/program-management background and readiness to manage as a hands-on, player-coach.\r\nStrong operational and financial fluency: comfort with throughput metrics, margin, billing/AR, and systems of record such as Airtable.\r\nExcellent judgment in distinguishing operational issues from staffing issues from delivery issues, and determining the right path to resolution.\r\nA track record of developing people and giving direct, useful feedback.\r\nA high bar for execution paired with the ability to deliver against ambitious timelines.\r\nThe ability to manage many concurrent projects and people without losing attention to detail.\r\nComfort operating in ambiguous, fast-scaling environments where processes are still being built.\r\nNice to Have\r\nFamiliarity with AI, machine learning, data pipelines, RLHF, or data-labeling/annotation operations.\r\nExperience managing contractor or contingent workforces at scale.\r\nExperience owning margin, billing, or financial tracking across a portfolio of projects.\r\nExperience building onboarding programs and repeatable operating systems for a rapidly scaling organization.\r\nWhat Success Looks Like\r\nIn your first several months, you'll take ownership of the TPM team, get every active project appropriately staffed, and raise the bar on project set up, tracking, and Airtable hygiene. You'll get TPM onboarding running smoothly — with new TPMs reaching a solo-ready standard faster — build strong working relationships with the FDE Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs, and establish clear visibility into throughput, margin, and delivery risk across the portfolio.\r\nOver time, you'll define how the TPM function operates at scale, develop TPMs into Deployment Leads and future leaders, and build the playbooks and operating systems that keep the engine running as the organization grows.\r\nAnnual Base Salary Range\r\nLabelbox strives to ensure pay parity across the organization and discusses compensation transparently. The expected annual base salary range for United States-based candidates is below. This range is not inclusive of any potential equity packages or additional benefits. Exact compensation varies based on a variety of factors, including skills and competencies, experience, and geographical location.\r\n$140,000 – $170,000 USD\r\nLife at Labelbox\r\nLocation : Join our dedicated tech hub in San Francisco.\r\nWork Style : Hybrid model with 3 days per week in office, combining collaboration and flexibility.\r\nEnvironment : Fast-paced and high-intensity, perfect for ambitious individuals who thrive on ownership and quick decision-making.\r\nGrowth : Career advancement opportunities directly tied to your impact.\r\nVision : Be part of building the foundation for humanity's most transformative technology.\r\nOur Vision\r\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.\r\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.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-06-28T01:08:45.748Z","dateModified":"2026-06-28T01:08:45.748Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Labelbox","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"e19488e89315912378f268f1"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e19488e89315912378f268f1"}}