Full-Time
Technical Program Manager
Updated on 9/3/2026
HumanSignal
51-200 employees
Data labeling platform with human supervision
No salary listed
San Francisco, CA, USA
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- 8+ years in program/technical program management or delivery operations
- Track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise programs
- Metrics-driven: owns and reviews delivery health KPIs weekly (on-time milestone rate, blocker aging, schedule variance, etc.)
- Strong judgment under pressure; makes good decisions with incomplete information
- Confident presence with senior engineers and executive customer stakeholders
- Translate customer outcomes into integrated delivery plans — milestones, dependencies, critical path, DRIs, definitions of done — and manage scope as engagements evolve
- Own delivery health end-to-end: maintain crisp status, surface risks early, and drive blockers to resolution so engineers stay focused on technical work
- Run tight cadences that hold teams accountable to outcomes without micromanagement; every open item has an owner and a due date
- Build durable delivery systems: single source of truth, action-item registers, risk registers, and playbooks that scale across the delivery org
- Draft regular customer updates (often daily), own live and async reporting, and maintain stakeholder confidence through proactive communication
- Identify automation opportunities and build AI-driven workflows to reduce operational overhead across engagements
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to continuously raise the bar on delivery excellence
- Experience with enterprise AI or ML deployments
- Familiarity with enterprise IT procurement and security processes
- Background in startup ops, management consulting, or forward-deployed engineering
- Experience building lightweight operating systems for distributed teams
HumanSignal provides a data labeling platform that helps improve AI models by combining automation with human supervision. It offers Label Studio as a subscription-based tool with features like custom UI building, templates, team permissions, and workflow options, supporting multiple data types. Clients subscribe, label data using templates and configurable workflows, and use human review where needed, with options for integrations and advanced support. The goal is to help organizations produce high-quality labeled data at scale, tailored to their needs through a flexible platform and professional services.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$25.2M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- June 2026 product updates targeted agentic AI evaluation and multimodal interfaces.
- HumanSignal raised $25 million from Redpoint and existing investors, supporting expansion.
- The Erud AI acquisition positions HumanSignal for frontier model training demand in 2026.
What critics are saying
- August 2026 CVE-2026-72560 exposed SSRF in Label Studio through version 1.24.0.dev0.
- Open-source competitors can copy labeling features quickly, compressing HumanSignal’s software margins.
- If Services fails, Enterprise buyers can bypass HumanSignal by hiring cheaper annotation vendors.
What makes HumanSignal unique
- Label Studio 1.23 added vector annotation, interactive task source, and data manager improvements in 2026.
- HumanSignal combines open-source Label Studio with enterprise workflows, permissions, and custom interface building.
- November 2025 Erud AI acquisition added physical data labs and expert annotation services.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -1%1 year growth
↓ -11%2 year growth
↓ -12%Heartex, the well-funded machine learning data labeling startup, is launching a major update to its platform today that will open up new use cases for its tools by making annotating audio files in the commercial and open source versions of its Label Studio a lot easier for its users. These updates include a new user interface, optimized for working with audio files, the ability to annotate longer files (up to two hours in length) and millisecond controls in the built-in annotation tool. There is also now a new rendering engine for displaying waveforms. In a previous update, Heartex also added to its tool features like frame-by-frame video object tracking and an overhauled annotation UI.The company says about 150,000 users are currently relying on Label Studio, with more than 95 million annotations created so far.Image Credits: Heartex“When we were originally thinking about building the data labeling solution, we did a lot of data scientist interviews,” Heartex co-founder and CEO Michael Malyuk told me. “And what we figured out is that many of them say they don’t have enough flexibility with existing tools. There is a tool for images, but you can only put a single image on the screen
Heartex, a data labeling firm, has raised $25 million in a venture funding round, bringing its total raised to $30 million.