Head of Delivery Operations, Snorkel AI
Data-as-a-Service
$240-300k
+ Equity compensation in the form of employee stock options.
1+ day a week in office
Data-centric enterprise AI platform for
Open for applications
Data-centric enterprise AI platform for
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$240-300k
+ Equity compensation in the form of employee stock options.
1+ day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to solve their most impactful problems through data-centric AI.
Role
Who you are
- The person we’re looking for is someone who isn’t afraid of blank space— we want someone who can scale an organization but also roll up their sleeves to drive results
- 8+ years of experience in technical delivery, operations, product, or related fields; 4+ years of people management
- Strong technical background (e.g. computer science, engineering, data analytics)
- Proven track record of successfully leading complex, technical cross-functional projects from inception to completion
- Strong leadership and maturity to build (attract, hire, retain) and scale a world-class organization
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives—written, verbal, and visual
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, especially in working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into scalable solutions; proven success influencingcross-functional teams and external stakeholders
- Strong business acumen—assessing risks, opportunities, and trade-offs to support short-term needs and long-term goals
- Bias to action and agility – you move quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment. No job is beneath you and you lead from the front
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, zero-to-one environment
- Bonus: experience managing customer-facing / field teams
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Head of Delivery Operations for the “Data-as-a-Service” (DaaS) business
- In this role, you will lead the team responsible for Snorkel’s data development pipelines, ensuring high quality and on-time delivery of complex datasets at the frontier of GenAI
- You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams— including research, engineering, and GTM to redefine how data powering frontier AI models is delivered using Snorkel’s state-of-the-art platform and research
- In this founding role, you’ll serve as a key business leader responsible for driving operational rigor, people leadership, and strategic decision making for the business
- Reporting to the Head of DaaS within Snorkel’s executive team, you’ll have the ownership and agency to build from the ground up as a founding member of this rapidly scaling business
- Lead the delivery team, including technical delivery / production managers, to drive high-performance and professional growth
- Drive the planning, execution, and delivery of strategic data labeling/annotation/curation projects and initiatives, across varying customers and timelines
- Implement standard operating procedures for project intake, delivery, contractor management, and quality control, ensuring consistency and scalability
- Define and execute the strategy for building high quality, high volume data pipelines
- Collaborate cross-functionally with research, engineering, product, growth, operations, and GTM leaders operate and scale the DaaS business business
Our take
Demand for AI is increasing in almost every industry, but the machine learning that fuels it is tedious to set up. In order to train machine learning algorithms, training data must be labelled manually, and this contributes to expenses in time, money and resources when integrating AI within a business.
Snorkel AI develops programmatic approaches to data labelling in order to automate the setup process of machine learning and decrease the required timeframe for a business to begin providing AI services. In addition to these automated data categorization services, the company also integrates data training, management, and analysis into a unified AI-deployment platform.
The complex computer science behind AI setup has resulted in many businesses without computer science backgrounds being left behind, and Snorkel AI has set this as their target audience. As of 2023, this customer base has tripled in size since Snorkel AI's founding and in 2024, enjoyed a new round of funding. With these promising developments, the company continues to innovate the sector.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Aug 2021
$85m
SERIES C
Total funding: $235m
Company benefits
- Home office allowance
- Yearly wellness stipend
- Healthy meals, snacks & drinks in office
- 401k with a 100% match up to 5% of annual salary
- Regular team events
- Generous paid parental leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Alex Ratner
(Co-founder & CEO)Studied at Harvard and received a PhD from Stanford. They are also an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.
Paroma Varma
(Co-founder)They hold a PhD from Stanford and was VP of Corporate Relations at the Society of Women Engineers. They have collaborated with teams at Facebook and Intel.
Braden Hancock
(Co-founder & Head of Technology)They have a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, and worked as a Research Assistant with the Air Force and MIT. They were also a Software Engineer at Google, and a Researcher at Facebook.
Henry Ehrenberg
(Co-Founder)They studied at Yale and Stanford and worked at Facebook as a Quantitative Engineering Intern and a Senior Applied Research Scientist.
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