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Frontier AI labs come to us when they need domain experts at scale, from PhD physicists evaluating reasoning to AI-native undergrads giving nuanced feedback on model outputs.\nLearning & Training (L&T) makes that expertise usable. We get fellows project-ready fast, then develop them into high-quality AI training talent. We teach them how models work, how to spot hallucinations, how to give structured feedback that improves a model, and how to think about alignment and safety.\nThe team runs a forward-deployed model. Each learning designer leads a project pod, embedded with operations, and turns new lab specs into training within days: playbooks, courses, interactive tools, and targeted coaching on specific errors. About 80% of the team's time is in pods and 20% on team-wide systems like assessment, analytics, and rubrics. L&T is a platform pods use, not a team they wait for.\nAbout The Role\nYou'll lead the Learning & Training as it joins Central Ops alongside fellow experience and quality, reporting to the VP of Central Ops. You own the function's strategy, its team, and its results: how fast Fellows are trained and ramp up, and the quality of their work\nThis is a player-coach role. You'll lead four senior learning designers and also roll up your sleeves: step into a pod when a new lab spec lands, build a course or a coaching plan yourself, and set the bar by example as well as by review. As the team grows, the balance shifts toward leading, but you'll never be far from the work.\nYou'll inherit a working model and a strong team. The job is to lead them, scale the model across more pods and project types, and make L&T's impact clear to operations and leadership.\nThis role sits closer to model development than almost any learning job. The training you shape determines the quality of the data frontier labs use to make models smarter, safer, and better aligned.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead and develop the team. Coach senior ICs who each go deeper than you in their own domain. Grow future leads from within.\n\nStay hands-on. Jump into pods when demand spikes or a project is new. Build training, review fellow errors, and model the standard you expect.\n\nHold the quality bar. Keep a written design standard in use across very different pods, so quality doesn't depend on any one person being in the room.\n\nScale the forward-deployed model. Plan capacity so the team is on the most important projects while system work still gets time. Decide where to embed, where to consult, and where pods can self-serve.\n\nMake impact visible. Turn ramp time, fellow quality, and project outcomes into a story that operations and leadership trust.\n\nPartner across Central Ops. Work with fellow experience, quality, and delivery so training gaps are caught before they become quality issues.\n\nDrive strategic programs. Turn a vision for L&T into programs that ship and get adopted.\n\nHire. Grow the team as demand grows, including hard-to-find technical and safety expertise.\n\nYou Have\nMust-haves:\n8+ years in enablement, learning design, or training, including 3+ years managing a team of experienced individual contributors.\n\nA player-coach mindset. You're willing to hustle as an IC and still build things yourself when the work calls for it.\n\nOperations sense. You've managed capacity across many concurrent projects where training ships in days, not quarters.\n\nFluency with AI models and data. You use models daily, can reason about how they fail, and understand how data quality shapes model behavior. Coding is not required.\n\nA track record of defining and holding a quality bar through standards, review, and coaching.\n\nSkill at influencing up and across. You can make the case for a function to operations leaders who measure everything.\n\nComfort with ambiguity and a function that is still taking shape.\n\nNice-to-haves:\nBackground in human data, data annotation, RLHF, or model evaluation.\n\nExperience training domain experts (PhDs, engineers, professionals) rather than general audiences.\n\nFamiliarity with technical or coding training, or with AI safety evaluation.\n\nExperience building learning analytics or skills assessment systems.\n\nHands-on comfort with SQL, scripting, or evaluation tooling.\n\nWhat this role is not\nA traditional L&D or corporate training role. There's no LMS rollout or annual curriculum calendar.\n\nA domain expert for every pod. Your designers hold the domain depth. You bring judgment, the standard, and a willingness to dig in wherever you're needed.\n\nA hands-off executive. You'll lead the team and still do some of the work yourself.\n\nIf you want to lead a sharp team, stay close to the craft, and shape how the next generation of AI models gets trained, we'd love to hear from you.\nPerks\nHandshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.\nThe below benefits are for full-time US employees.\nOwnership: Equity in a fast-growing company\nFinancial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching\nFamily Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching\nWellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend\nGrowth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development\nRemote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office\nTime Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days\nConnection: Team outings & referral bonuses","description_format":"text","description_chars":5550,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Job Boards & Aggregators","AI Training Data & Annotation","Professional Networks"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-02T23:16:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":49,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":260000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/handshake-director-learning-and-training","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/handshake-director-learning-and-training.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T03:55:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5080,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5000},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5000"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhandshake-director-learning-and-training"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhandshake-director-learning-and-training"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhandshake-director-learning-and-training"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/handshake-director-learning-and-training\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhandshake-director-learning-and-training"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3647330}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"joinhandshake.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3647330},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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