Associate Project Manager- Gen AI Operations

About this job

Welocalize is hiring an Associate Project Manager for Gen AI Operations in Gurgaon, India. Welocalize, through its Welo Data brand, serves as a trusted multilingual data and evaluation partner for enterprises and foundation labs deploying global Generative AI systems. The company provides essential human judgment, data infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks to ensure AI models remain safe, inclusive, and reliable across various languages and real-world contexts. In this role, you will manage complex strategic AI training data projects, ensuring successful end-to-end delivery, strong client relationships, and positive financial outcomes. A normal day involves guiding project coordinators, executing delivery plans, collaborating with quality teams to maintain high standards, tracking budgets and resources, and resolving operational risks to support advanced AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Execute delivery plans, milestones, and resourcing controls for large AI data projects.
• Contribute to client governance sessions and manage project scope and priorities.
• Track project budgets, rates, margins, and forecasts to protect profitability.
• Partner with the Quality Analyst team to enforce QA approaches and continuous improvement.
• Plan rater capacity and align workflows across different time zones.
• Run root-cause analyses and manage risk escalations and change controls.
• Contribute to SOPs, dashboards, and the piloting of new AI data services.
• Ensure strict adherence to data privacy, security, and compliance policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, data/operations, engineering, or related fields.
• 1+ years leading complex project delivery or operations in AI data, annotation, content review, or similar domains.
• Experience coordinating multi-team delivery and managing client touchpoints.
• Strong planning, organization, and written/spoken communication skills.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets, PM task boards, and basic BI tools.
• Financial awareness regarding budgets, margins, and change orders.
• Ability to coach junior PMs and coordinators with sound trade-off judgment.
• Comfort working with global, distributed teams using intermediate to advanced English.

Good to have

• Near-native English with strong writing and editorial skills.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools for text, voice, or video.
• Background in QA testing, rubric design, or AI safety and ethics evaluation.
• Familiarity with data-annotation platforms and model-evaluation tools.
• Multilingual ability beyond English.

Who should apply

This role suits professionals with prior project management or operations experience who are eager to build a career in the rapidly growing Generative AI sector. Candidates who excel at managing multiple workstreams, coordinating with global teams, and balancing financial and quality objectives will find a great fit here. If you possess experience in AI data operations, annotation, or client management and want to work with a leading global brand like Welocalize in Gurgaon, you should consider applying.

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