Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Snorkel AI helps enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale through high-quality data. The Manager, Coder Fellows will lead the people-management layer for Coding Fellows across projects, overseeing support, performance management, development, administration, and consolidated feedback while partnering with project delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships through regular one-on-ones and ongoing communication. Understand each Fellow’s strengths, goals, challenges, and support needs; set clear expectations; and partner with People Operations and project leaders on onboarding and administrative matters
- Set expectations for quality, reliability, collaboration, communication, flexibility, learning, and professional conduct. Gather and synthesize feedback across projects, accounting for assignment complexity, project context, ramp time, and changing responsibilities. Recognize strong performance, provide candid feedback, and address concerns early through focused improvement plans
- Review representative work, including code, pull requests, reviews, annotations, documentation, and commentary, to understand quality and development needs. Partner with delivery and quality leads to identify recurring issues and distinguish individual performance concerns from unclear requirements, insufficient context, or process gaps
- Create effective feedback loops with project managers, technical leads, reviewers, and other delivery partners. Establish clear expectations when Fellows join projects, preserve context during transitions, surface assignment mismatches or blockers, and resolve conflicts with fairness and discretion
- Hold regular career conversations and help Fellows grow as individual contributors, reviewers, quality specialists, coaches, or mentors. Use contextualized metrics to monitor quality, throughput, reliability, team health, and retention; improve feedback and calibration processes; and contribute to hiring and workforce planning as the program scales
- Fellow support, people administration, performance expectations, consolidated feedback, performance reviews, coaching, development, and long-term success
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or a related environment, including direct management of programmers or software engineers
- Demonstrated experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, conducting performance reviews, delivering actionable feedback, and handling difficult conversations
- Experience managing people across multiple projects, clients, teams, or changing assignments
- Enough technical depth to read and discuss code and pull requests, assess engineering judgment, and understand core software-development practices
- Ability to evaluate performance thoughtfully rather than relying on throughput, ticket volume, or other simple metrics
- Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, discretion, empathy, and a collaborative, low-ego approach
- Experience in a consultancy, software agency, contract engineering shop, professional-services organization, staff-augmentation model, or similar distributed environment is strongly preferred
- A computer-science degree is not required. Experience with AI/ML development, model evaluation, annotation, data quality, or technical-content production is helpful
Benefits
- Remote work in the United States
- Meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact the company’s success
- Opportunities to deepen technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, and learn new skills across multiple functions
- Support in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success
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