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Data Program Manager

Odyssey· Operations
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Palo AltoFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

The Data Program Manager is the connective tissue between research, vendors and the data flywheel, responsible for understanding data needs from frontier multi-model research, presenting a data roadmap to research, applied ML, and leadership, and turning inbound requirements into a backlogged data-ops plan.

Responsibilities

  • Run data plans with loose requirements from Research. Turn fuzzy, disparate data requests into scoped, sequenced acquisition plans with quality bars, timelines, and clear data parameters.
  • Manage a multitude of vendors across verticals and data types, maintaining relationships and negotiating commercial terms favorable to Odyssey.
  • Manage the human teams (experience with contractors a big plus) that acquire proprietary data and establish and enforce quality measures.
  • Stand up and own the weekly data-needs review and forecast. Force-prioritize when necessary and surface the trade-offs to leadership.
  • Embed in research planning. Flag data risks four to six weeks ahead of when they would hit a model run.
  • Define and track quality and throughput metrics across active data programs. Redline and QA batches that slip, and close the loop with vendors.
  • Partner with Research on data requirements while also running independently on frontier data mix delivery.
  • Drive program retrospectives, what data moved which evals, at what cost, and what we should repeat.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of program or product management at a technical company, with at least two of those years in an AI, ML, or data-intensive context.
  • You can read ML papers without flinching; you don't need to derive the maths, but you understand what the research aims to prove and what data would support it.
  • Working knowledge of SQL and basic data analysis. You can pull your own numbers when needed.
  • Real experience negotiating with external vendors and driving down costs.
  • You can run a tight stand-up, keep clean docs, and finish things.
  • Comfortable saying "no" to a researcher; better at saying "yes, by week six, here's the plan."
  • Track record of driving cross-functional programs at speed in environments where priorities change weekly.

Skills

Required:data planningvendor managementdata quality and metricsSQL

Benefits

  • Our staff is expected to be in office at least three times a week. A lot of our progress comes from working through problems together, and we want you in the room for that.
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Odyssey

Odyssey is an AI lab focused on general-purpose world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models—a new form of multimodal intelligence.

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