Strategic Projects Lead

Chakra Labs • New York City, NY

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About The Position

The Strategic Projects Lead owns a customer project from end to end. This typically looks like taking a vague research goal from a lab to a delivered dataset a researcher actually trusts. It is the most operationally intense seat at Chakra and the one sitting closest to the customer. We are looking for someone that is able to deeply understand a given spec, own the relationship between a variety of stakeholders, and fulfill deliverables at a high quality bar.

Requirements

• Operationally intense background. Consulting, banking, private equity, startup operations, ex-founder, or time in the human-data industry.
• Roughly 2+ years, but we can make exceptions. What matters is that you have experience with creating positive outcomes for customers on a deadline.
• Technical-adjacent. You would spend time around trajectories, verifiers, and evals.
• Taste, and the ability to defend it. You can look at a batch of work from experts and tell what's genuinely useful to a researcher versus what merely looks complete.
• You lead through influence, not authority. Your contributors are experts with other priorities across time zones. None of them report to you. You get quality and pace out of them through clear specs, credibility, and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-project delivery end to end, which may include scoping, contributor orchestration, quality assessment, and shipping.
• Recruit and manage a pool of expert contributors who build gyms and trajectories.
• Track and prioritize milestones for project completion in a space where requirements may shift overnight.
• Assess delivery quality regularly before they are sent to a customer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed