Strategic Project Lead

The Role

We're hiring a high-agency Strategic Project Lead with 1–4 years of experience to own AI data and enterprise automation programs end-to-end.

This is a hands-on role combining data operations, technical program management, customer delivery, and business operations.

You'll translate ambiguous customer needs into executable projects, manage domain experts and reviewers, track delivery quality, and work directly with customers and AI research teams.

Responsibilities

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  Manage AI data collection, evaluation, and enterprise automation projects from scoping through delivery.

  
  


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  Coordinate enterprise customers, AI labs, technical teams, and domain experts.

  
  


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  Recruit, onboard, and manage experts, reviewers, and contractors.

  
  


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  Track data quality, acceptance rates, capacity, costs, and deadlines.

  
  


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  Manage customer communications, changing requirements, and project delivery.

  
  


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  Support enterprise implementation, stakeholder approvals, onboarding, and adoption.

  
  


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  Identify operational bottlenecks and independently implement solutions.

  
  


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  Develop repeatable processes for scaling programs.

  
  


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  Grow into owning strategic customer and AI lab accounts.

  
  

Requirements

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  1–4 years of experience in AI data operations, technical program management, startup operations, data delivery, or consulting.

  
  


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  Strong preference for experience with AI/ML datasets, model evaluations, data annotation, or enterprise data workflows.

  
  


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  Demonstrated ownership of complex, ambiguous projects from start to finish.

  
  


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  Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

  
  


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  Customer-facing experience and ability to manage multiple stakeholders.

  
  


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  Experience coordinating technical teams, contractors, or external contributors.

  
  


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  High urgency, attention to detail, adaptability, and independent execution.

  
  


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  Comfortable working in an intense, fast-moving early-stage startup environment.

  
  

Ideal Background

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  AI training data and evaluation companies such as Mercor, Scale AI, Surge AI, Turing, Invisible Technologies, or Labelbox.

  
  


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  AI infrastructure, enterprise automation, or data operations startups.

  
  


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  Technical program management, data delivery, or strategic operations teams.

  
  


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  Former founders or early startup operators with direct AI/data exposure.

  
  


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  Consulting professionals with meaningful hands-on AI or data operations experience.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

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  Experience managing distributed reviewers or domain experts.

  
  


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  Familiarity with LLM evaluations, RLHF, or reinforcement learning data.

  
  


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  Experience managing complex enterprise deployments.

  
  


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  Experience delivering technical projects to external customers.

  
  


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  Strong commercial judgment and ability to build customer relationships.

  
  

Ideal Candidate

A resourceful, analytical operator with 1–4 years of experience who thrives in ambiguity