Product Manager, Data Quality Strategy & Analytics Platform

About the  Role:

We're looking for a Product Manager who gets excited about turning complex data challenges into elegant, widely-adopted solutions. As part of our dynamic team, you'll lead the charge in transforming how we measure and deliver quality in AI training data, while spearheading the analytics platform that drives our entire operation and ensuring teams embrace these tools in their daily workflows.

If you're passionate about AI, love diving deep into data, and want to make a real impact on how some of the world's most innovative companies build their AI models, this role is for you. You'll blend your product intuition with technical know-how to transform how we deliver high-quality training data at scale, focusing on both powerful functionality and seamless user adoption across the organization.

Responsibilities 

• Drive the product strategy and roadmap for quality assessment tools and the operational analytics platform.
• Design and implement statistical frameworks and metrics to ensure ground-truth annotation accuracy at scale.
• Lead the continuous improvement of the analytics platform to support operational functions and service delivery.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and service delivery teams to translate operational requirements into platform capabilities.
• Develop and implement quality validation processes tailored to diverse client needs, including computer vision and generative AI applications.
• Refine and standardize metrics, reporting methodologies, and dashboards across annotation types to deliver actionable insights and ensure consistent measurement of performance and outcomes.
• Incorporate client feedback to refine product strategy, prioritize roadmap updates, and support sales and solution engineering teams by providing expertise during client discussions, ensuring alignment with customer needs and expectations.
• Manage product development cycles, including requirements gathering, prioritization, and launch execution.

MInimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 3+ years of product management experience, with a focus on data platforms or quality systems.
• Experience writing clear product requirements and driving the product development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to use data to inform product decisions.
• Proficiency with SQL and experience working with data/analytics teams.
• Demonstrated success in stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with computer vision, ML, or AI-powered products.
• Background in data quality, annotation, or data operations platforms.
• Track record of leading technical integrations or API-driven products.
• Knowledge of statistical methods for quality control and sampling.
• Experience with agile development and product discovery methodologies.

About Sama 

Sama provides high-quality training data that powers AI technology for Fortune 2000 companies such as Google, Walmart, Ford, Microsoft, and Marriott. We’re experts in data curation and data annotation for 2D and 3D image, video, and sensor data for machine learning algorithms. Sama offers the highest quality SLAs in the industry, along with cutting-edge ML-assisted annotation tools, QA processes, and security and compliance standards. 

Founded in 2008 on the belief that “talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not”, Sama is driven by the mission to expand opportunities for those who are underprivileged. As a certified B-corp, Sama has provided worker training programs to increase economic opportunity for more than 13,000 people from underserved communities. By connecting our customers with amazing talent in East Africa, we've impacted more than 59,000 workers and their dependents.

Today, our vision is to provide data scientists, ML engineers, and data operations teams with an indispensable, integrated platform for AI data preparation, labeling, and collection. 

For more information, visit www.sama.com.

More information can be found at:

• Featured in Forbes: How Ethical Is Your AI?
• Sama Honored on Inc. Magazine’s Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies — the Inc. 5000
• Reversing Poverty - Ted Talk by our founder Leila Janah

Our Culture:

Sama is quite unique. We are a technology company with a social mission. People that thrive in a high-growth environment, love working on the bleeding edge of technology, and really care about having a positive impact on the world are a great fit for the Sama culture. Our core values are One Team, One Goal - Deliver. Period. - Trust & Transparency - Customer First - Humanity.

Our Benefits:

Sama is proud to offer competitive compensation corresponding to market data & level of experience. Sama also offers benefits packages based on country of employment, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, holiday and vacation policies, professional development stipends and a paid sabbatical program. Our Talent Acquisition team would be happy to discuss our benefits packages with you in more detail during the interview process.

At Sama, we pride ourselves in being a diverse and equal opportunity employer.