Project Management Team Leader - Machine Learning Projects

About the role

The Team Leader – Project Management oversees day-to-day project execution and leads a team of individual contributors who deliver high-quality outputs meeting client specifications and quality standards. The role coordinates workflows, assigns tasks, provides technical guidance, ensures team productivity, acts as the first point of escalation, drives process improvements, manages team performance and fosters employee engagement and development.

Key responsibilities

• Assign tasks according to team members' skills and capacity, monitor work in progress, track productivity metrics and ensure timely delivery of deliverables.
• Review outputs for accuracy and compliance, give feedback and corrections, run spot checks and audits, and maintain quality standards.
• Track individual and team KPIs, identify trends and bottlenecks, implement corrective actions and report performance metrics to management.
• Act as a technical resource for complex questions, clarify ambiguous cases and ensure consistency across the team.
• Lead and develop the team through guidance, support and mentorship, and resolve day-to-day technical and operational issues.
• Support continuous process improvement and effective project delivery.

Required profile

• At least 3 years of project management experience, preferably in the machine learning or technology industry.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science or a related field.
• B2-level or higher proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Experience managing one or more projects with budgets of $5 million to $7 million, especially in data annotation, localization and natural language processing.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of data annotation, machine learning concepts and related project workflows.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and techniques for planning, milestone tracking and timeline management.
• Ability to manage daily workflows, assign and prioritize tasks and handle budgets.
• Leadership competencies: leading and managing change, building effective teams and managing stakeholder relationships.