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# Senior Strategy & Operations Manager at Snorkel AI

- **Company:** Snorkel AI
- **Location:** New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/5822681004

## Job description

## About Snorkel

At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data.

We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!

## About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Strategy & Operations Manager to help run Snorkel's rapidly scaling Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) business. DaaS Operations is the centralized Strategy & Operations team reporting into the Head of Strategy and Operations, partnering across Supply, Delivery, GTM, Innovation, Finance, and Engineering to keep the business running with rigor and scaling efficiently as complexity grows.

In this role, you will move fluidly across the most important problems in the business — operating cadences and planning cycles, capacity and supply planning, project execution and quality, customer outcomes, and the new operating functions we are standing up as DaaS scales. You will own end-to-end workstreams that don't have a clear home, build the operating systems behind them, and partner closely with the leaders of each function to turn strategy into measurable execution.

This is a high-impact role suited for a strong operator who thrives in ambiguity, brings structure to fast-moving environments, and can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

## What You'll Do

- Partner with leaders across DaaS — Supply, Delivery, GTM, Innovation, Finance, and Engineering — to bring operational clarity, execution rigor, and alignment to their highest-priority initiatives
- Own the operating cadence of the business — weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews — and ensure goals, metrics, and reporting tell a clear story to leadership
- Drive cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, especially the ones that span multiple teams or sit in the gaps between them
- Lead annual planning and quarterly business review inputs across DaaS, translating strategic priorities into structured operating plans and measurable milestones
- Diagnose performance issues across the business — capacity, quality, throughput, customer outcomes, cost — and partner with the right function to fix them
- Step in to own ambiguous workstreams or new problem areas as they emerge, and drive them to outcomes
- Improve operational processes and build durable systems that reduce friction and increase throughput as the business scales
- Identify execution risks early and proactively surface trade-offs to leadership
- Serve as a thought partner and executor to DaaS leadership and adjacent teams

## Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, or similar roles
- Experience partnering closely with operational leaders in high-growth or complex environments
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives and deliver outcomes end-to-end
- Strong analytical skills with comfort using data to inform decisions and track performance
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problem spaces
- Proven track record of influencing without authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior stakeholders
- Strong prioritization skills and bias toward action
- Comfortable operating in imperfect systems while building scalable processes
- Entrepreneurial mindset with high ownership and accountability

Bonus Points

- Experience in services, marketplace, or data-driven businesses
- Exposure to delivery, operations, or workforce-based execution models
- Experience supporting planning cycles and executive reporting

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Snorkel also includes benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)). This role is hybrid (3 days/week in office) in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.

Pay Range $150,000-$200,000 base salary.

Be Your Best at Snorkel

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

## About Snorkel AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The frontier AI data lab helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier models and agentic AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds; latest venture round in 2024; total funding $250.2M)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources; company originated from the Stanford AI Lab

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI data development, software development, AI/ML research
- **Target customers**: B2B; frontier AI labs, enterprises, government agencies
- **Mission**: “We’re building the data and environments behind the world’s most advanced AI systems.”

## Products & Services
- **Custom Data Development**: Bespoke datasets, evaluation frameworks, and benchmark expansions for specialized AI models and agents. Type: Service / Platform.
- **Specialized Agents**: Agents grounded in expert data, evaluated against task-specific rubrics and programmatic checks. Type: AI solution.
- **Snorkel Data Series**: Curriculum-structured datasets with rubrics, reviewer guidance, difficulty tiers, and eval slices. Type: Dataset product.
- **Evaluation Research**: Proprietary frameworks like RIFT (Rubric Failure Mode Taxonomy) and benchmarks such as OSWORLD 2.0 and Terminal-Bench 2.0. Type: Research / tooling.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $38.6M (LinkedIn estimate) | Total Funding $250.2M (9 rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Addition, Greylock, GV (Google Ventures), In-Q-Tel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, funds managed by BlackRock, QBE Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 62.5% YoY to 801 employees; operates in 15 countries; trusted by leading AI labs and enterprises; 250+ publications at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary data development process** based on programmatic data labeling and weak supervision, pioneered at Stanford AI Lab
- **Deep academic roots** with ongoing research collaborations and peer-reviewed publications
- **Focus on frontier AI data quality** (task specification, calibrated review, provenance) rather than volume
- **Embedded delivery model** combining platform, research, and domain expertise

## Strategic Focus
- Building the data and environments for frontier models and agentic AI
- Expanding into enterprise and government deployments
- Advancing research on RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards) in low-data regimes
- Creating evaluation standards for agentic systems (e.g., Terminal-Bench, OSWORLD 2.0)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Quality first”, “Push the frontier”, “Competitive yet kind” – fast-moving, high bar, no ego
- **Locations**: Primarily San Francisco, Redwood City, and New York City, with remote/hybrid options globally
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical coverage, parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, flexible PTO, equity refresh grants, wellbeing allowance, company events
- **Engineering culture**: Work with PhDs, subject matter experts, and domain specialists on cutting-edge AI data challenges
- **Open roles**: 45 positions across Research, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Product, etc. (as of latest posting)

## Sources
1. [snorkel.ai/company/](https://snorkel.ai/company/)
2. [snorkel.ai/](https://snorkel.ai/)
3. [snorkel.ai/join-us/](https://snorkel.ai/join-us/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/snorkel-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/snorkel-ai)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/5990959004)

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