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About the Role
This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce. Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Lead and coordinate a large pool of domain experts day to day, including onboarding new experts, running calls and weekly reviews, and keeping work moving against deadlines and quality bars.
- Guide research and product partners to close gaps between program goals and expert output, translating research and leadership inputs into clear, actionable guidelines and task instructions.
- Track deliverables, throughput and quality metrics in spreadsheets such as Sheets or Excel, and report program status clearly to stakeholders.
- Evaluate expert submissions and quality trends, identify root causes of quality issues, and provide clear, written feedback that raises the bar across the team.
- Flag risks and blockers early, propose fixes, and drive them to resolution with research, product and operations partners.
- Collaborate with research and product partners and other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Experience as an Expert Program Manager (EPM), program lead or team lead on AI training data, human data or model evaluation projects, at Mercor or at another AI training or data company (e.g., Scale AI, Surge, Micro1, Turing, Outlier, Appen, TELUS, or an internal AI data operations team at a large
- 3+ years of experience leading or coordinating large contributor or expert teams against deadlines and quality bars.
- Demonstrable career progression (e.g., Expert Contributor to Reviewer to Team Lead to Program Lead or Expert Program Manager).
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex guidelines and quality decisions clearly.
- Prior experience on Mercor projects.
- A degree in a STEM field.
- Advanced spreadsheet skills (Sheets or Excel), working knowledge of SQL, and some coding experience.
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
Independent contractor engagement. Apply via the link below - Mercor handles onboarding and pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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