Strategic Projects Lead

About the Role

We need an SPL who obsesses over operational excellence, thrives in ambiguity, and can own multi-million dollar contracts with labs and enterprises from day one.

What You'll Do

Project Ownership & Execution

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer projects by managing budget, schedule, and scope
• Track project milestones and deliverables, ensuring quality standards are met
• Identify bottlenecks early and resolve problems before they become blockers
• Communicate directly with customers to understand needs, set priorities, and manage expectations

Operations & Scale

• Build and scale data pipelines and operational processes that drive real revenue
• Manage large teams of global experts (annotators, engineers, domain specialists)
• Coordinate work across distributed teams to hit aggressive deadlines
• Design systems and workflows from scratch when playbooks don't exist

Strategy & Decision-Making

• Make high-impact decisions daily on resource allocation, scope, and trade-offs
• Use data analysis (SQL/Python) to track performance and optimize operations
• Organize, plan, and prioritize work across multiple concurrent projects
• Wear multiple hats: ops, strategy, product, and execution

What We're Looking For

• Technical foundation: CS/Engineering degree, comfortable with SQL/Python for data analysis
• Project management chops: 1+ years managing complex projects, teams, or operations (PM experience is a major plus)…