Freelance AI Data Project Manager

Role Description

Frontier AI companies partner with Toloka to build the data behind frontier AI systems. As a Freelance AI Data Project Manager on our Physical AI team, you will:

• Own and scale Physical AI data collection programs from pilot to production.
• Work directly with researchers and technical teams at leading AI labs.
• Lead global operations across egocentric, exocentric, teleoperation, and multisensory data.
• Coordinate engineering, hardware, supply, quality, and contributor networks to deliver against ambitious quality, throughput, cost, and timeline targets.

This is a hands-on role for someone excited by frontier AI, fast iteration, and a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end execution of complex Physical AI data projects.
• Build deep client relationships with researchers and technical teams at frontier AI companies.
• Orchestrate the work of thousands of contributors and collection partners across global markets.
• Own data quality, throughput, delivery timelines, and unit economics.
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, supply, quality, analytics, and operations.
• Ensure high-quality execution under fast-moving requirements and demanding timelines.
• Build and improve the processes needed to take new data programs from pilot to global scale.

Qualifications

• Mindset: High ownership, bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and energy for a fast-moving environment.
• Experience: Proven success in startups, technology, consulting, operations, or other demanding environments.
• Analytical ability: Strong problem-solving skills; comfortable using data to diagnose issues, make trade-offs, and drive decisions.
• Communication: Clear, confident communicator who can work effectively with technical teams, senior stakeholders, and customers.
• Pace: Customer requests are often time-sensitive, with aggressive timelines that require rapid execution, quick iteration, and the ability to adapt as requirements change.

Benefits

• Freelance collaboration (B2B) via the OnTop freelance platform.
• Flexible, fully remote schedule (40 hours per week).
• Salary: $120K–$180K per year.
• Opportunity to work on highly innovative projects at the leading edge of AI development.
• Work with a genuinely dedicated and dynamic team of experts.
• Projects with customers that are AI industry leaders and well-known household names.
• Friendly community.
• Fully remote.