Program Lead

Join a leading AI lab's GenAI team as a Program Lead, leading large pools of domain experts on AI training data, human data and model evaluation programs. Full-time, 40 hours per week. This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with placement at a leading AI lab. United States only.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate a large pool of domain experts day to day (onboarding, calls, weekly reviews)
• Translate research and leadership inputs into clear guidelines and task instructions
• Track deliverables, throughput and quality metrics in Sheets or Excel and report status
• Evaluate expert submissions, find root causes of quality issues and give written feedback
• Flag risks and blockers early and drive them to resolution

Core qualifications:

• Experience as an Expert Program Manager, program lead or team lead on AI training data projects (e.g. Mercor, Scale AI, Surge, micro1, Turing, Outlier, Appen, TELUS)
• 3+ years leading large contributor or expert teams against deadlines and quality bars
• Demonstrable career progression (e.g. Contributor to Reviewer to Team Lead)
• Available at least 40 hours per week on weekdays
• Strong written communication

Preferred: prior Mercor project experience, a STEM degree, advanced spreadsheet skills, SQL, some coding, and people leadership experience.