Strategic Projects Lead

Role overview Own end-to-end delivery on the most important customer projects, serving as the primary contact for AI lab clients. Translate research goals into clear data specifications and lead teams of expert contributors producing high-quality datasets on tight timelines. The role blends project leadership, operational execution, and product thinking.

Responsibilities - Scope, plan, execute, iterate, and deliver datasets for AI labs and enterprise customers from kickoff through handoff. - Run client check-ins, share progress, manage expectations, and surface risks early. - Translate research needs into clear guidelines, rubrics, and task designs that shape how models are trained and evaluated. - Recruit, onboard, and manage domain specialists such as PhDs, engineers, clinicians, lawyers, and analysts. - Design QA workflows, review samples, track metrics, and continuously raise the bar on data integrity. - Build playbooks, request tooling, and improve processes so subsequent work runs faster and better.

Requirements - 2+ years of project, program, or operations management experience in a high-ownership setting, or equivalent consulting background. - Exceptional written and verbal communication, including comfort working directly with technical customers. - Proven ability to turn ambiguous problems into structured, executable plans. - Strong attention to detail and a high bar for quality. - Comfort in fast-paced startup environments where priorities shift. - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have - Experience at an AI or ML company, or with data annotation, RLHF, or model evaluation projects. - Background managing distributed or freelance teams. - Familiarity with large language models and genuine interest in how they are trained and evaluated.