Data Program Manager, AI/ML Delivery

Location: Hybrid - New Jersey, United States

Salary: $140,000–$150,000 per year, based on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global is a global data engineering company providing data, evaluation frameworks, platforms, services, and human expertise for Generative AI and other AI systems.

What you will do

• Own client engagements from kickoff through completion, ensuring delivery on time, to specification, and to client expectations.
• Build and manage human data solutions, including data annotation, labeling, and evaluation datasets for AI/ML products.
• Coordinate data operations, analysts, subject-matter experts, and other internal teams.
• Translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and communicate business requirements to technical teams.
• Manage priorities across multiple clients and projects while identifying and resolving delivery risks.
• Use quality metrics, acceptance criteria, and dataset-level analysis to identify gaps and drive delivery improvements.

Requirements

• Hybrid work in New Jersey, United States.
• 4+ years of experience in technical program or project management, delivery management, or data operations within AI/ML, data annotation, or related technology domains.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience working in technical environments and managing cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, client management, communication, and risk management abilities.
• Experience working with quality metrics, acceptance criteria, and dataset-level analysis.

Nice to have

• Understanding of LLMs, model evaluation, benchmarking, data annotation, and AI/ML data production workflows.
• Experience delivering datasets or evaluation assets to AI labs, research organizations, or ML engineering teams.
• Exposure to benchmark and evaluation frameworks, annotation platforms, SME-driven data production, or RLHF workflows.
• Working knowledge of Python, SQL, or analytics and BI tools.
• PMP, Agile, or equivalent program management certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of client management, data operations, and AI/ML delivery.
• Opportunity to contribute to process and delivery improvements as capacity allows.
• Potential to build and lead a team as the practice scales.