Staff Program Manager, Human & LLM Data Annotation Operations

Location: Remote within the United States; optional access to offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago.

Base salary: $180,200–$252,300 USD annually, plus potential equity and, depending on the position, commission.

Company

Reddit operates a large network of online communities and uses continuous data annotation to support advertising, consumer experiences, models, taxonomies, and product experiments.

What you will do

• Own and scale the request-intake process across Consumer and Ads organizations, prioritizing initiatives by agreed criteria and business impact.
• Design and execute the operational roadmap for LLM-assisted labeling workflows that augment human vendors and increase throughput.
• Standardize taxonomy guidelines and operationalize complex, multi-quarter labeling projects for product experiments and Ads safety systems.
• Partner with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Operations Leaders, and vendor partners to translate business requirements into executable human and machine tasks.
• Create clear task guidelines, resolve edge cases, establish calibration feedback loops, and manage task-level escalations.
• Build and document centralized intake models, SLA frameworks, quality assurance practices, and throughput metrics.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data operations, program management, or vendor operations, with a strong focus on data labeling, model-training data, or taxonomy infrastructure.
• Proven ability to align Product and Engineering leadership, set firm boundaries, and enforce structured prioritization.
• Exceptional ability to translate vague product requirements into detailed labeling instructions, edge-case trees, and taxonomy classification schemas.
• Experience using LLMs, synthetic data generation, or automated tooling to augment vendor annotation workflows and scale operational capacity.
• Demonstrated ability to work with internal Vendor Operations or Vendor Managers to convert project requirements into executable guidelines and handle task-level escalations.

Nice to have

• Experience working across Ads or Monetization and Consumer-facing product organizations.
• Strong SQL and data-manipulation skills for independently analyzing vendor quality metrics, pipeline throughput, and project-completion SLAs.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work is available within the United States, with optional office access in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago.
• Comprehensive healthcare and income-replacement programs, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match and global benefit programs supporting workspace, professional development, and caregiving.
• Family-planning support, gender-affirming care, and mental-health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation, paid volunteer time off, and generous paid parental leave.
• Interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI for select roles and locations; candidates may opt out before scheduled interviews.