What You'll Do
- Lead the FDE team end-to-end: hire, coach, manage performance, and develop careers across the FDE track and toward FDR or GM.
- Own the supply side of FDE staffing: commit FDEs to the staffing cadence and match them to projects by skill and development need, balancing each FDE's preferred vertical with where the work is, and staffing to the phase of a project rather than parking people for its full length.
- Set and uphold the craft bar: sharp task scoping, sound pipeline and measurement design (including the LLM-as-judge and quality instrumentation that surface problems early), clear instruction writing, and compelling customer-facing presentation of findings.
- Protect FDE focus: keep day-to-day project operations with the SPLs and Pod Leads, and keep FDEs on scoping, technical depth, and what the customer needs from the data.
- Own FDE onboarding and the bar that certifies a new FDE as ready to be staffed: define which projects are eligible to onboard on, maintain the instruction and Loom repository, and run the onboarding program — including the core exercise (read a past project's instructions, explain them back, and write a new version in the repo).
- Drive reuse and leverage: build the templates, tooling, and playbooks that stop FDEs rebuilding pipelines and instructions from scratch each project, so the team's capacity compounds as we scale.
- Ensure FDEs work hand-in-glove with FDRs on research, efficacy, and customer needs, and partner with whoever owns quality sign-off so quality is caught in flight, not at delivery.
- Partner with the SPL Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs on staffing, delivery, and alignment with customer objectives.
- Step in on escalations when a pipeline, delivery, or customer relationship is at risk.
- Maintain a clear, live view of team capacity, utilization, and bench across active projects.
What You'll Own
- The capability and craft bar of the FDE team.
- How quickly and consistently new FDEs reach a staffable standard.
- Healthy deployment – the right FDEs on the right projects, at the right altitude and utilization.
- A growing bench of FDEs developing toward FDR and future leadership.
What Success Looks Like
In your first several months, you'll take ownership of the FDE team, raise the bar on scoping, pipeline, and instruction quality, and get onboarding running smoothly — eligible projects defined, the instruction and Loom repository in good shape, and new FDEs reaching a staffable standard faster and more consistently. You'll build strong working relationships with the SPL Manager, Deployment Leads, and GMs, keep FDEs well-deployed and at the right altitude, and become the person the team relies on for craft and career growth.
Over time, you'll define how FDEs work at scale: the templates, tooling, and playbooks that let the team produce more without rebuilding from scratch, a measurement-and-quality craft bar that surfaces problems early, and a pipeline of FDEs growing into FDRs and future leaders.
Labelbox strives to ensure pay parity across the organization and discuss compensation transparently. The expected annual base salary range for United States-based candidates is below. This range is not inclusive of any potential equity packages or additional benefits. Exact compensation varies based on a variety of factors, including skills and competencies, experience, and geographical location.
Annual base salary range
$190,000—$250,000 USD