AIML - Senior Operations Program Manager - Responsible AI and Safety
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In this role, you will manage Apple's relationship with internal crowd as well as a portfolio of external vendor partners spanning evaluation, red-teaming, and data generation. You will own how this work gets resourced, scoped, and executed — from statements of work and workforce calibration to quality audits and ongoing partner performance — ensuring these partnerships can scale reliably as safety evaluation needs grow across products, features, and markets.
You will also own the feedback loop and establish the processes that connect Red-Teaming, Evaluation, and Post-Ship Insights groups. Findings surfaced through red-teaming and evaluation need to inform what we monitor once features ship, and post-ship signals need to flow back into how we prioritize and design future red-teaming and evaluation coverage. You will build and operate the mechanisms — shared reporting, recurring syncs, and closed-loop tracking — that keep these three functional areas working from a single, current picture of risk rather than in isolation. Ensuring compliant and timely reporting across Apple Intelligence features is a key element of this role.
You will shape the tools and infrastructure roadmap needed to power these functions. This includes maintaining clear, current documentation of processes, systems, and data flows across these functional areas, and identifying and prioritizing the tooling and infrastructure investments needed to support them as they scale — partnering with engineering and technical stakeholders to translate operational needs into build requirements.
Lastly, you will also drive the operational scaling of our data infrastructure: how we manage, store, and govern the human-labeled goldsets that underpin safety benchmarking and LLM-judge validation, and how those pipelines extend to new languages, markets, and cultural contexts.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 5+ years of experience in vendor/partner management, data operations, or program management, ideally supporting ML/AI evaluation, annotation, or data labeling programs
- Demonstrated experience managing external vendor relationships and/or internal annotation operations partnerships at scale, including statements of work, budget, and performance management
- Experience scaling human-labeled data pipelines, including dataset creation, quality calibration, storage, and governance
- Experience standing up or scaling operations across multiple international markets, including working with multilingual and multicultural vendor workforces
- Experience coordinating across functionally distinct but interdependent teams to close feedback loops and keep shared priorities aligned
- Experience owning documentation and translating operational needs into tooling or infrastructure roadmaps, partnering with engineering to scope and prioritize build work
- Strong ability to think strategically about operational tradeoffs while managing multiple concurrent initiatives in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Proven track record managing budgets and vendor relationships at scale
- Proficiency with data tools (e.g., SQL, spreadsheets/BI tools) sufficient to track vendor performance, cost, and data quality metrics
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to translate operational risk and status for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing vendor or annotation partnerships specifically for AI safety evaluation, red-teaming, or Responsible AI programs
- Familiarity with goldset design, labeling guidelines, or LLM-judge/evaluation workflows sufficient to partner effectively with technical teams
- Experience building internationalization or localization operations for data labeling or evaluation programs
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks relevant to AI safety and content risk across international markets
- Demonstrated success building operations or vendor programs from the ground up, including establishing new processes or partner relationships
- Executive presence and experience presenting operational risk assessments and scaling plans to senior leadership
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