AI Data Solutions - Technical Director

About LILT

AI is changing how the world communicates — and LILT is leading that transformation.

We're on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone, regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand, voice, or quality.

At LILT, we empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues—Work together, win together; Find a way or make one; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1—guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation, Canva, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, ASICS, and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, we’re building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.

What You’ll Do

LILT is seeking a Technical Director to continue building out our AI Data Solutions function from the ground up. This high-impact role will own scoping and solution design, building scalable, secure solutions that will enable LILT to deliver high quality, multimodal training data and services to power the next generation of AI. You will partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering and Operations leadership to drive implementation and shape decision-making, and help scale LILT through its next phase of growth.

Our goal is to build cutting-edge technology combined with expert, multilingual data contributors, to help ensure customer AI systems are accurate, adaptable, and ready for real-world deployment.

You will be responsible for providing the technical expertise during the presales cycle to drive LILT customer acquisition and success, as well as building automated solutions for post-sales deployment and delivery. You will interact with a wide variety of technical and executive audiences, and have the technical skills to be able to not only build demos and execute proof-of-concepts but also to drive architecture and operational implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Be LILT’s subject-matter expert in the application of AI in bespoke technical workflows
• Lead technical design and development of AI based workflows in collaboration with Production & Revenue functions, supporting a variety of customer use cases across multilingual data solutions:
• Human evaluation for LLM output and prompt scoring
• Prompt and text corpus creation
• Transcription and speech to text
• KYC document extraction and review
• Content moderation QA
• Work with Product and Engineering to build scalable platform tooling to support LILT’s multilingual data solutions and reduce manual effort
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Account Management teams to ensure smooth prospect-to-customer transitions and long-term customer success
• Play an active role in the development and continuous improvement of workflows & solutions
• Track existing technology solutions and follow the latest trends and developments relevant to multilingual data solutions; specifically the application of AI.

Skills and Experience

• At least 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership role focusing on AI application
• Strong understanding of applied data science, ML, Gen AI, (LLM prompting, RAG)
• Excellent storytelling and business value articulation skills for both technical and executive audiences.
• Expertise designing and deploying workflows that involve combinations of automated and human stages, experience with automated QA, and experience integrating LLMs into workflows
• Expertise in deploying multilingual data solutions (LLM, text corpus, speech, image, video) for a variety of customer use cases.
• Proven expertise utilizing AI tools to create or enhance localization and/or data labeling solutions
• A deep passion for expanding the boundaries of AI applications and a mindset of relentless problem solving and innovation
• Proven ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level.
• Understanding of Large Language Models, including fine tuning
• Analytical approach to intelligence gathering and project planning
• Keen attention to detail and adherence to deadlines
• Strong desire to learn in a rapidly growing and dynamic pre-IPO growth environment
• Ability to work independently and self sufficiently while being part of a team and pursuing team goals
• Knowledge of localization platforms/technologies (CAT, TMS, TM, MT, LMS, CMS, LLM)
• Extensive experience with software development principles and APIs

Benefits

US Postings

• Compensation: At market salary with the opportunity to earn on-target earnings (OTE), meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays
• Medical Benefits: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, and more. In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months.
• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle

United Kingdom

• Compensation: At market salary with the opportunity to earn on-target earnings (OTE), meaningful equity, pension scheme contribution, and time off plus company holidays
• Health care: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance. LILT pays for basic life assurance (UK ONLY)
• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle

Our Story

Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. While together at Google, they were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company.The quality just wasn’t there. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born.

LILT has been a machine learning company since its founding in 2015. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, human-in-the-loop systems, and now agentic AI.

With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing, the next phase of LILT’s journey is just beginning.

Our Tech

What sets our platform apart:

• Brand-aware AI that learns your voice, tone, and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent
• Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing
• 100+ native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager, Webflow, Salesforce, GitHub, and Google Drive to simplify content translation
• Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists, for high-impact content that requires expert review

LILT in the News

• Featured in The Software Report’s Top 100 Software Companies!
• LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List.
• LILT’s continues to be an intellectual powerhouse, holding numerous patents that help power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry.
• Check out all our news on our website.