Senior Manager, Training Data

What you'll do

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for training data acquisition and preparation.
• Translate research priorities into source requirements, platform investments, and dataset acceptance criteria.
• Define technical requirements for source discovery, URL indexing, crawl scheduling, and distributed fetching.
• Drive improvements in parsing and curation, including HTML extraction, code preservation, and quality filtering.
• Lead build, buy, and partner decisions for internal crawling, commercial datasets, and licensed content.
• Partner with researchers on controlled experiments to measure data impact on model capabilities.
• Work with legal and security teams to establish scalable controls for source eligibility and provenance.
• Build researcher-facing capabilities for dataset discovery, metadata, versioning, and quality reporting.

What we're looking for

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 5+ years of experience on data platforms, search/indexing, or ML infrastructure.
• 4+ years of direct people management experience.
• Proven track record of delivering data systems at scale and taking complex products from concept to production.
• Strong technical understanding of distributed data pipelines, storage, indexing, and data processing.
• Ability to use SQL, Python, or equivalent tools to inspect data and performance metrics.
• Direct experience with foundation-model training data, web crawling, or corpus curation (preferred).