.As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.Welocalize.Com To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. OVERVIEW The AI Program Manager is a subject matter expert (SME) on MT and AI innovation, manages client relationships for existing MT & AI solutions, and supports internal production teams in anything related to Welocalize's AI-enabled solutions, from technical troubleshooting to MT processes, internal training and documentation, to training of linguists, participating in research and industry events and supporting the pre-sales process with their expertise. The ideal candidate has project management and/or other hands-on localization experience, and is comfortable working with various roles in the organization, clients, technology providers, and our translation supply chain. We are looking for an analytical, technically-minded individual with a strong understanding of language and translation. Main Responsibilities Scoping, scheduling and budgeting MT suitability evaluations: responsible for coordinating different teams in the organization to successfully run MT suitability evaluations. Schedule, approach to MT engine customization, ensuring talent gets booked, ensure proper hand-offs and financials are tracked by business owners. Machine Translation suitability evaluation: Critically analyzing results of MT suitability across systems and languages. Training: provides training to internal Linguists, prepares files and ensures documentation is kept. Cost tracking: responsible for tracking MT program costs and savings for clients they are assigned to (e.G. MT provider costs, PE savings). Reporting: preparing reports and collaterals on their client programs, and will typically also present these at QBRs. Sales Support: offering support in a pre-sales Subject Matter Expert capacity on MT and other proprietary AI solutions, and defines longer term strategies for MT/AI for their clients, based on the data and conversations they have