Senior Manager, Coder Fellows

Role overview A Senior Manager opportunity leading a portfolio of Coding Fellows who create high-quality technical content used to train and evaluate AI systems. The role is a people-first leadership position that owns the people-management layer across multiple projects, while dedicated project delivery teams handle day-to-day task assignment and execution.

Responsibilities

- Build trusted relationships through regular one-on-ones, understanding each Fellow's strengths, goals, and support needs while setting clear expectations. - Partner with People Operations and project leaders on onboarding and administrative matters. - Set expectations for quality, reliability, collaboration, communication, flexibility, learning, and professional conduct, and own cross-project performance management. - Gather and synthesize feedback across projects, accounting for assignment complexity, ramp time, and changing responsibilities. - Recognize strong performance, deliver candid feedback, and address concerns early through focused improvement plans. - Review representative Fellow work (code, pull requests, reviews, annotations, documentation) to maintain technical credibility and distinguish individual performance from process gaps. - Establish feedback loops with project managers, technical leads, reviewers, and delivery partners; surface assignment mismatches and resolve conflicts fairly. - Coach career growth, use contextualized metrics to monitor quality and retention, and contribute to hiring and workforce planning as the program scales.

Requirements

- 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, running performance reviews, delivering actionable feedback, and handling difficult conversations. - Experience managing people across multiple projects, clients, teams, or changing assignments. - Background 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, assess engineering judgment, and understand core software development practices. - Ability to evaluate performance thoughtfully rather than relying on throughput or ticket volume. - Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, discretion, empathy, and a collaborative, low-ego approach.

Benefits and work setup

- Base salary range of $175,000 to $250,000 USD, plus equity, with final compensation determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. - Full-time role with opportunities to shape priorities, influence strategic decisions, and grow across technical and leadership tracks. - Equal employment opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations for candidates and employees with disabilities.