Senior Manager, Coder Fellows (AI)

Location: United States (Remote)

Salary: $175,000–$250,000 USD base salary, plus equity

Company

Snorkel AI is an AI data lab developing datasets, benchmarks, evaluations, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems.

What you will do

• Directly manage a portfolio of Coding Fellows across multiple projects through regular one-on-ones, communication, onboarding, support, and administration.
• Set performance expectations and consolidate evidence from multiple projects while accounting for assignment complexity, project context, ramp time, and changing responsibilities.
• Review representative code, pull requests, reviews, annotations, documentation, and commentary to assess quality and development needs.
• Partner with project managers, technical leads, reviewers, People Operations, and quality leads to establish expectations, preserve context, identify blockers, and resolve conflicts.
• Coach career growth, improve feedback and calibration processes, monitor contextualized quality and retention metrics, and contribute to hiring and workforce planning.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or a related environment, including direct management of programmers or software engineers.
• Experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, conducting performance reviews, delivering actionable feedback, and handling difficult conversations.
• Experience managing people across multiple projects, clients, teams, or changing assignments.
• Enough technical depth to read and discuss code and pull requests, assess engineering judgment, and understand core software-development practices.
• Ability to evaluate performance thoughtfully rather than relying on throughput, ticket volume, or other simple metrics.
• Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, discretion, empathy, and a collaborative, low-ego approach.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML development, model evaluation, annotation, data quality, or technical-content production.
• Experience in a consultancy, software agency, contract engineering shop, professional-services organization, staff-augmentation model, or similar distributed environment.
• A computer-science degree is not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with base salary determined by location and level, plus equity.
• Opportunities to shape priorities, influence strategic decisions, and contribute to a rapidly scaling organization.
• Support for career growth, technical development, leadership opportunities, and learning across functions.
• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.