Senior Technical Program Manager, Applied AI

About LILT

AI is changing how the world communicates and LILT is leading that transformation.

Were on a mission to make the worlds information accessible to everyone regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge AI machine translation and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster more accurately and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand voice or quality.

At LILT we empower our teammates with leading tools global collaboration and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues Work together win together; Find a way or make one; Dance in the customers shoes; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1 guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation Canva the United States Department of Defense the United States Air Force ASICS and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia Intel Capital and Redpoint were building a category-defining company in a $50B global translation market being redefined by AI.

About the Role:

As a Senior Technical Program Manager of Applied AI you will sit at the intersection of cutting-edge research and industrial-scale execution. You will operate with an entrepreneurial mindset effectively acting as the CEO of your customers business to proactively drive success. You are responsible for leading complex benchmark transformations and data deliverables. Rather than just managing timelines you are architecting workflows to ensure the next generation of LLMs and multimodal models are trained on the most accurate diverse and complex data available while championing innovative solutions alongside our research lab partners.

• Entrepreneurial Benchmark Leadership: Act as the CEO of your customers business by proactively proposing and co-developing benchmark transcreations directly with research lab partners ensuring our deliverables are innovative tailored and aligned with their core research objectives.

• Frontier Lab Program Management: Lead the end-to-end execution of high-priority technical programs for frontier AI labs managing the delivery of massive-scale datasets and bespoke engineering milestones.

• High-Volume Data Operations: Architect and oversee pipelines for delivering high-volume data samples across multiple modalities (text image video audio) ensuring strict adherence to delivery cadences without sacrificing precision.

• End-to-End Quality Control: Partner with production to implement rigorous automated and human-in-the-loop QC frameworks to ensure data integrity across various domains and languages.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Bridge the gap between forward-deployed engineering resources research and production teams to ensure LILT can serve the needs of the frontier AI market.

Qualifications

• Education: B.S or M.S. in Computer Science AI or a related technical field with 10 years of industry experience. Equivalently a Ph.D. with 5 years of experience in a high-growth AI/Engineering environment.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Experience founding or scaling a venture or operating in an early-stage startup environment where you drove business growth and strategic initiatives from the ground up.

• Strategic Execution: Strong business acumen and the ability to manage high-stakes stakeholder relationships with frontier AI labs.

• Frontier AI Expertise: Proven track record of managing data pipelines for LLMs or multimodal models. Deep understanding of training inference and the nuances of data diversity (multilingual and multi-domain).

• Scale & Quality: Demonstrated ability to manage high-throughput programs where quality control is mission-critical. You should have experience with automated validation at scale.

Preferred Skills

• Fluency in multiple human languages.

• Proficiency in Python and experience working with modern AI frameworks (PyTorch LangChain etc.).

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology in a rapidly growing industry.

• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.

• Significant opportunities for professional growth and development.

• The chance to make a real impact on global communication and business.

Where Youll Work

This position is based in our London UK office and will be expected to work in the office in a hybrid capacity. Boston and Indianapolis are also acceptable locations. LILT is hybrid with hubs in SF NY Indianapolis Boston London and Berlin.

Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.

• London UK (highly preferred)

• Others: Berlin Boston New York Indianapolis

Our Story

Our founders Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. While together at Google they were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasnt used for enterprise products and services inside the quality just wasnt there. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born.

LILT has been a machine learning company since its founding in 2015. At the time machine translation didnt meet the quality standard for enterprise translations so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models human-in-the-loop systems and now agentic AI.

With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing the next phase of LILTs journey is just beginning.

Our Tech

What sets our platform apart:

• Brand-aware AI that learns your voice tone and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent

• Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing

• 100 native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager Webflow Salesforce GitHub and Google Drive to simplify content translation

• Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists for high-impact content that requires expert review

LILT in the News

• Featured in The Software Reports Top 100 Software Companies!

• LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List .

• LILTs continues to be an intellectual powerhouse holding numerous patents that help power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry.

• Check out all our news on our website .

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