Senior Technical Program Manager

We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to lead a critical initiative building large-scale datasets for machine learning models. This role will serve as the central coordination point between our internal ML/AI, Geographic Information Systems, modeling, and technical artist teams, and external annotation partners, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality training data that powers next-generation systems. Responsibilities: Program Management: Steward the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of the dataset development program, including timelines, milestones, and risk mitigation. Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the primary liaison between ML engineers, GIS engineers, technical artists, product stakeholders, and external annotation vendors. Vendor Oversight: Manage vendor relationships, including onboarding, quality assurance, throughput tracking, and contract compliance. Data Quality & Standards: Collaborate with ML and data teams to define annotation guidelines, quality metrics, and validation protocols. Ensure that merged datasets are reproducible. Tooling & Infrastructure: Work with engineering teams to ensure annotation platforms and data pipelines are scalable, secure, and efficient. Compliance & Ethics: Ensure data collection and annotation practices adhere to privacy, security, and ethical standards. Documentation: Ensure that institutional knowledge exists in written form and can be transmitted easily to onboard new team members. Work with technical stakeholders to ensure that data provenance is tracked across multiple handoffs.