LLM Teacher Team Manager

Perplexity is building the next generation answer engine, empowering our users to find information in new and more effective ways. Perplexity applies LLMs for knowledge search at scale, serving millions of users across the world. As the LLM Teacher Team Manager, you will directly contribute to Perplexity’s data flywheel, and improve our models and thus product experience through data. You will work closely with the team to build high volume, high quality, and diverse datasets; and have a direct impact on our production models and thus the product experience. You will use our in-house suite of data tools to achieve this, and work with us to improve these interfaces. As a LLM Teacher Team Manager at Perplexity, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Large Language Model (LLM) answer engine.
The LLM Teacher Team Manager will lead a team of LLM Teachers and is responsible for the success, execution and output of the team. This job entails delivering high quality, diverse datasets for our LLMs, evaluation of LLMs, and identifying ways to use latest technologies and operational efficiencies to improve the data pipeline. You will likely succeed in this job if you are obsessed with data integrity, have strong leadership and communication skills, and experience managing a team.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage, and execute plans to modify LLM behavior through data
• Effectively communicate daily project results, overall project analysis, risks and blockers
• Guide large teams to achieve data goals to meet the ML engineering team’s deadlines
• Build projections and project timelines
• Identifying and resolve blockers, which includes prioritizing, adjusting project resources, and working across teams
• Perform supervisory functions like employee development, performance check-ins, and other team leader duties
• Monitor and ensure the quality of the project outputs

Qualifications

• Experience in an operational role managing and motivating a team to reach deadlines and achieve deliverables
• Strong attention to detail and obsession with data accuracy, especially with writing, proofreading, and editing
• Analytical minded with the ability to create rigorous reports and work projections
• Proactive about improving processes, identifying inefficiencies, and proposing solutions to achieve goals more efficiently
• Very strong communication skills and enjoys breaking complicated concepts into clear and concise manner
• Not afraid to get into the details and the nitty gritty to get the job done
• Experience with large scale data collection
• College degree at a minimum

About PerplexityPerplexity recently raised a $25.6M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from Databricks Ventures and amazing individual investors like former GitHub CEO, Nat Friedman, Color Health Founder, Elad Gil, Google AI SVP, Jeff Dean, GMail Inventor Paul Buchheit, former Youtube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, Design Head (Messenger, Dropbox) Soleio Cuervo, and Former President of Microsoft, Bob Muglia. More about the announcement can be found HERE.Perplexity is on a mission to revolutionize the way people search and interact with the internet. We are creating a powerful conversational interface that harnesses the power of large language models to deliver more accurate and intuitive search results. Join us and help shape the future of search and AI technology.