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Owns program-level strategy and delivery, manages a cross-functional team, and is the primary owner of the client relationship for the program. Partners closely with the Lead Quality Manager to keep quality consistent and drive continuous improvement across high-volume operations.\nKey Responsibilities-\nProgram strategy & planning: Define program goals, roadmap, milestones, and operating model across multiple projects and vendors.\nTeam management: Lead a delivery team (PMs, Coordinators) with clear goals, capacity plans, coaching, and performance feedback.\nClient ownership: Act as the day-to-day executive contact; run governance, planning, and QBR-style reviews; align scope, priorities, and change.\nQuality partnership: Co-own quality outcomes with the Manager of Quality; align on guidelines, audits, acceptance criteria, and corrective actions.\nScale & throughput: Plan and secure rater/annotator capacity; optimize shifts, handoffs, automation, and tooling to meet high-volume targets.\nFinancial stewardship: Build and manage budgets, margins, and change orders; ensure commercial and delivery commitments stay aligned.\nRisk, issue & change control: Maintain program RAID; lead root-cause analyses and remediation; escalate high-impact items with options and impact.\nProcess improvement & automation: Standardize SOPs, templates, and dashboards; pilot and scale automation with Ops Tech.\nCompliance & security: Ensure policy adherence for data handling, privacy, and platform access across the program.\nStakeholder management: Coordinate with Sales/Account, Quality, Operations, and Vendor Management to meet client and business goals.\nRequirements\nEducation- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, operations, data/engineering, or a related field.\nExperience-\n5-8 years leading large or multi-workstream delivery in AI data, content review, labeling/annotation, or adjacent domains.\nProven program-level experience in high-volume environments, including vendor management and capacity planning.\nRecord of managing client relationships and running governance cadences.\nSkills-\nProgram planning and portfolio governance across multiple projects.\nTeam leadership: goal setting, coaching, delegation, and performance feedback.\nStrong communication with senior client stakeholders and internal leaders.\nSolid use of spreadsheets, PM/task boards, and BI dashboards; familiarity with SQL/ETL concepts is a plus.\nQuality mindset with practical use of SOPs, QA gates, and acceptance criteria.\nSound judgment on scope, time, cost, and quality; confident negotiation and escalation.\nComfortable working with global, distributed teams (advanced English).\nScope & Autonomy-\nManages a single program/team end-to-end, setting operating rhythms and standards within agreed policies and budgets.\nMakes day-to-day and tactical strategic decisions for the program; escalates only non-standard or high-impact items.\nDirect line management for PMs/Coordinators and dotted-line influence over cross-functional partners.\nOwns the client relationship for the program and partners with the Lead Quality Manager on outcomes.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3219,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Translation Services","AI Training Data & Annotation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T06:36:22Z"}],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.3,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":239,"expected_fill_days":67,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","ghost","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/welo-global-lead-program-manager-generative-ai-data-operations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/welo-global-lead-program-manager-generative-ai-data-operations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:39:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2100,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2900,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}