Partnership Development Specialist - LLM Data Acquisition and Production

Responsibilities

About the team
LLM Global Data is a team focused on producing international data for LLMs. For the training of large models, data is the lifeline of model quality — and the Global Data team is working closely with technical, product, and operations teams to ensure effective data production strategies and execution management. There's a lot to do, and there's substantial room for impact, similar to TikTok 5 years ago.

Responsibilities Summary:
As a Partnership Development Specialist, you will serve as a crucial bridge between internal teams and external resources. Through effective communication and collaboration, you will acquire high-quality external resources and industry information to support the company's business needs. Your work will focus on resource development, resource implementation, and resource enhancement, ensuring the success of collaboration projects, driving overall operational efficiency and cost competitiveness.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

- Efficiently identify and acquire high-quality external resources, establish, and maintain a high-productivity supplier base.
- Strengthen supplier development according business needs such as SFT, RM, Eval, Multimodal, etc., ensure effective negotiations and signing of feasible commercial terms to maximize outsourcing benefits.
- Organize and develop internal project support processes, ensuring efficient response and smooth implementation of various project demands.
- Create a regular external resource and industry research mechanism, generating quarterly and annual reports to provide timely market insights and continually bring in the latest industry insights and best practices for the internal Ops team.
- Through market research and data analysis, identify and deepen collaborations with key suppliers, fostering closer and more coordinated relationships to achieve optimized total operating costs.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher, fast learning ability and passionate about model trainings
- Independent analytical and communication skills, able to efficiently coordinate internal and external resources to drive project success.
- Excellent in summarizing and organizing processes, capable of making supplier development plans and collaboration strategies.
- Based in the USA.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experienced in project management, with practical experience in data production Ops is preferred.
- Strong market sensitivity and research ability, quickly grasping industry dynamics and proposing targeted improvement solutions.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $83600 - $192534 annually.​

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.​

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).​

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.​

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:​

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:​

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;​

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and​

3. Exercising sound judgment.​

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