[Hiring] Senior Manager, Coder Fellows @Snorkel AI

Role Description

Coding Fellows create high-quality technical content used to train and evaluate AI systems. Depending on the project and each Fellow’s strengths, their work may include:

• Writing and reviewing code
• Opening pull requests
• Creating annotations or documentation
• Improving others’ work
• Coaching peers

We are looking for a leader to directly manage a portfolio of Fellows who may contribute across multiple projects over time. This is a people-first role. You should have enough technical depth to understand and discuss Fellow work, but you will not be the day-to-day technical lead or approver for every project.

What you will do

• Lead and support Coding Fellows
• Build trusted relationships through regular one-on-ones and ongoing communication
• Understand each Fellow’s strengths, goals, challenges, and support needs
• Set clear expectations
• Partner with People Operations and project leaders on onboarding and administrative matters
• Own cross-project performance management
• Set expectations for quality, reliability, collaboration, communication, flexibility, learning, and professional conduct
• Gather and synthesize feedback across projects
• Recognize strong performance and provide candid feedback
• Maintain technical credibility and quality
• Review representative work to understand quality and development needs
• Partner with delivery and quality leads to identify recurring issues
• Partner with project delivery teams
• Create effective feedback loops with project managers, technical leads, reviewers, and other delivery partners
• Establish clear expectations when Fellows join projects
• Coach growth and strengthen the program
• Hold regular career conversations and help Fellows grow
• Use contextualized metrics to monitor quality, throughput, reliability, team health, and retention

What this role owns—and does not own

You own:

• Fellow support
• People administration
• Performance expectations
• Consolidated feedback
• Performance reviews
• Coaching
• Development
• Long-term success

Project delivery teams own:

• Day-to-day task assignment
• Project-specific priorities
• Delivery plans
• Immediate deliverable acceptance
• Project execution

What we are looking for

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or a related environment
• Experience managing people across multiple projects, clients, teams, or changing assignments
• Demonstrated experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, conducting performance reviews, delivering actionable feedback, and handling difficult conversations
• Experience in a consultancy, software agency, contract engineering shop, professional-services organization, staff-augmentation model, or similar distributed environment is strongly preferred
• Enough technical depth to read and discuss code and pull requests
• Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, discretion, empathy, and a collaborative, low-ego approach

What success looks like

• Coding Fellows understand expectations, receive consistent support, and trust their manager
• Performance reviews reflect evidence across projects
• Delivery teams provide timely, specific feedback
• Strong work is recognized, growth is visible, and performance concerns are addressed early
• Fellows transition between projects with clear context and continuous support
• The program improves quality, throughput, collaboration, communication, and retention

Salary range(s) for this role

$175,000 - $250,000 USD

Benefits

This role is full time and will receive a base salary based on location and level plus equity. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.