Strategic Projects Lead

Mannelly Recruitment•Seattle, WA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

A fast-growing AI data startup is hiring a Strategic Projects Lead in Seattle to run some of its most complex, deadline-driven customer engagements. You will take a vague research goal from a frontier AI lab and turn it into a dataset researchers trust, owning each project from kickoff to delivery and working directly with researchers, engineers and expert contributors from day one. Day to day, you will track what each customer needs and ship on time to a high-quality bar, find, hire and lead pools of expert contributors through influence rather than authority, reprioritize milestones when requirements change overnight, build the internal tools and workflows behind each deliverable alongside engineers, and review trajectories, verifiers and evals before they reach customers.

Requirements

1+ years of experience in consulting, investment banking or a fast-paced startup operations role
Background in top-tier consulting, investment banking, private equity or VC-backed startup operations
Track record of delivering customer projects under tight deadlines, with ownership of the outcome
High agency, sound judgment and real excitement about working in AI data

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as a Strategic Projects Lead or Deployment Strategist at an AI data lab or technology firm
Degree from a top-30 program
Technical-adjacent background with exposure to trajectories, verifiers and evals
Comfort with vibe coding is a plus

Responsibilities

Own each project from kickoff to delivery
Work directly with researchers, engineers and expert contributors
Track what each customer needs and ship on time to a high-quality bar
Find, hire and lead pools of expert contributors through influence rather than authority
Reprioritize milestones when requirements change overnight
Build the internal tools and workflows behind each deliverable alongside engineers
Review trajectories, verifiers and evals before they reach customers