# Portfolio Manager - AI Training Data Programs

**Company**: WeLocalize
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Portfolio Manager to oversee multi-project portfolios for AI training data programs. The successful candidate will lead delivery and scale, including capacity planning, vendor management, and process automation. The goal is to ensure quality is consistent across projects, drive performance improvements, and plan work jointly with the Sr. Quality Analyst.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Plan and run a group of projects (collection, labeling, evaluation) end-to-end; set priorities, milestones, and handoffs across time zones.

- Run cadence (status, risk, exec updates); align scope and budget with account and operations leads.

- Forecast and secure rater/annotator capacity; balance shifts, throughput, and skills across vendors and internal teams.

- Partner with the Sr. Quality Analyst on acceptance criteria, audits, and corrective actions; keep guidelines aligned across projects.

- Identify manual steps; pilot automation with Ops Tech (templates, scripts, RPA, API-driven flows); scale what works.

- Set expectations, SLAs, and playbooks; review performance and drive improvements or changes as needed.

- Build and track budgets, burn, and margins; manage change orders to protect financial outcomes.

- Lead root-cause and action plans; escalate high-impact items with options and impact.

- Lead planning and QBR-style reviews; explain results, risks, and next steps in clear terms.

- Coach P1 PMs and C2–C3 Coordinators on planning, QA, and tools; support onboarding and skills growth.

- Ensure data handling, privacy, and access controls are followed across all workstreams.

- Gather feedback, provide training and coaching, foster team cohesion through team-building activities, conduct performance reviews, and support staffing and retention efforts.

- Work closely with the recruiting team to manage hiring efforts by communicating requirements, upcoming projects, and candidate statuses.

**Education:**

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, operations, data/engineering, or similar

**Experience:**

- 2–3 years leading multi-project portfolios or large multi-workstream programs in AI data, content review, labeling/annotation, or related fields

- Background in capacity planning, vendor coordination, and quality systems; experience piloting or scaling process automation is a plus

**Skills:**

- Portfolio planning and governance across several projects at once

- Clear communication with senior clients and internal leaders; runs planning and QBR-style reviews

- Strong use of spreadsheets, PM/task boards, and basic BI; familiarity with SQL/ETL concepts is a plus

- Sound judgment on scope, time, cost, and quality trade-offs

- Negotiation and escalation to resolve risks, issues, and change

- Coaching mindset; guides P1 PMs and C2–C3 Coordinators

- Comfortable working with global, distributed teams (intermediate to advanced English)

**Additional Qualifications (P1+):**

- Near-native English with strong writing and editorial skills

- Hands-on experience with generative AI tools (text, voice, or video)

- Background in QA testing, rubric design, or AI safety/ethics evaluation

- Familiarity with data-annotation platforms and model-evaluation tools

- Ability to interpret code, datasets, and system workflows at a conceptual level (no coding required)

- Able to work independently and manage workflows effectively in a remote environment

- Multilingual ability beyond English

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## Skills

### Required
- portfolio planning
- vendor management
- process automation
- quality consistency
- financial control

### Nice to have
- generative AI tools
- QA testing
- rubric design
- AI safety/ethics evaluation
- data-annotation platforms

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