Senior Project Manager- Operational Support
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Responsibilities
- Logistics coordination: Own the inbound ticket queue for operational logistics; triage, resolve, and route issues across onboarding, access, tooling, and finance workstreams with minimal escalation.
- SLA compliance tracking: Build and maintain SLA tracking across onboarding and operational workflows; identify gaps, report on performance, and drive corrective actions to keep programs on track.
- Contractor onboarding: Coordinate end-to-end contractor onboarding logistics including access provisioning, IT setup, and finance processing; partner with IT and finance teams to resolve blockers quickly.
- Client stakeholder coordination: Serve as the primary operational contact for client stakeholders on access and tooling issues; communicate status, timelines, and resolution paths clearly and proactively.
- Governance and reporting: Run operational cadences (status updates, risk flags, SLA reports); keep program directors informed of logistics issues without pulling them into day-to-day resolution.
- Process documentation and improvement: Identify recurring friction points in logistics workflows; develop and maintain SOPs, escalation paths, and playbooks; pilot process improvements and scale what works.
- Cross-functional coordination: Work across program delivery, IT, and finance teams to align on logistics priorities, unblock onboarding, and ensure operational workflows support delivery timelines.
- Financial coordination: Track contractor onboarding costs, purchase orders, and budget spend related to logistics; flag discrepancies and manage change requests in partnership with finance.
- Risk and issue management: Identify and escalate logistics risks that threaten delivery timelines; lead root-cause analysis and action plans for recurring issues.
- Compliance and access controls: Ensure data handling, access provisioning, and security protocols are followed across all onboarding and operational workstreams.
- People coordination: Collaborate with PST, Finance, and recruiting teams on onboarding and offboarding logistics; maintain clear communication and updated SOPs to guide operational staff.
- Education:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, i
Additional Information
About Welo Data Welo Data, a Welo Global brand, is the multilingual data and evaluation partner for foundation labs and enterprises deploying GenAI systems globally. They deliver the human judgment, data infrastructure, and evaluation systems that ensure AI models perform reliably across languages, cultures, and real-world contexts, at every stage from training through deployment. Its global network of 500,000+ vetted experts spans 300+ languages and locales, enabling high-quality multilingual data creation and structured model evaluation across the full spectrum of modern AI applications - from large language models and voice and speech systems to agentic workflows and robotics and embodied AI. This breadth of linguistic, cultural, and domain expertise enables Welo Data to address critical AI development challenges, including safety, bias, inclusivity, and cross-lingual reliability. A unified global operating model, led by specialized program and quality experts and grounded in assessment-driven talent selection, localized rubrics, and continuous calibration, ensures consistent performance across languages, domains, and modalities. Underpinning all of this is NIMO™ (Network Identity Management and Operations), Welo Data's proprietary identity and fraud-prevention framework. Built to maintain data integrity and workforce trust across a global contributor base, NIMO combines advanced verification, continuous monitoring, and structured QA to ensure every dataset is accurate, traceable, and culturally grounded. welodata.ai Job Reference: #LI-JC1 Senior Project Manager - Program Logistics oversees operational logistics across AI training data programs. Leads end-to-end coordination across program delivery, contractor onboarding, IT, and finance to keep programs running without escalation to program directors. Manages an inbound ticket queue, drives SLA compliance across onboarding and operational workflows, and serves as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders on access and tooling issues. Provides the operational backbone needed to scale delivery programs as complexity increases. This role will support end-to-end operational logistics across our data annotation programs, sitting at the intersection of program delivery, contractor onboarding, IT, and finance. The hire will own an inbound ticket queue, coordinate directly with client stakeholders on access and tooling issues, and develop SLA compliance tracking across onboarding and operational workflows. The role is scoped for India (night shift) with PST alignment required. As pilot programs continue to scale and increase complexity, this role provides the operational backbone needed to keep delivery on track without pulling program directors into day-to-day logistics resolution.
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