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Special Projects Lead (SPL)

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As a Strategic Project Lead, you will own the end-to-end execution of high-stakes AI data projects for our top-tier clients building cutting-edge AI models. You'll be the primary point of contact for leading AI labs, orchestrating complex workflows, managing teams of expert contributors, and ensuring every deliverable meets the highest standards of quality and efficiency.

This is a high-impact, operationally intensive role where you'll balance client relationships, team coordination, process optimization, and real-time problem solving.

What You'll Do

Serve as the main point of contact for our top AI lab customers, building deep trust and long-term partnerships

Understand client objectives and translate them into executable project plans

Design and manage large-scale data pipelines from client specification through final delivery

Recruit, vet, onboard, and manage teams of expert contributors at scale

Mentor and develop Strategic Project Associates on your projects

What We're Looking For

2-3+ years in a high-intensity operational role: consulting, finance, startups, project management, or data operations, OR prior experience in human data / AI data operations

Proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects

Experience working directly with clients in a customer-facing capacity

Background in data operations, engineering, computer science, or a related technical field is a strong plus

Skills & Capabilities

Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal

Strong analytical mindset with a bias toward data-driven decision making

Comfortable with ambiguity and able to structure problems from scratch

Mindset & Work Style

Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building, iterating, and scaling

Comfortable with gritty execution work, these are hands-on, operationally intense roles

Obsessed with quality, detail, and delivering exceptional client experiences

Excited by the opportunity to shape the infrastructure behind frontier AI development

Key Highlights

You'll work directly with researchers and engineers at the world's most advanced AI labs

You'll help shape a consumer platform that thousands of experts engage with daily

Opportunity to grow into senior leadership roles as the team and company scale

Growth Path

SPA: Support SPLs on major client accounts while building toward ownership

SPL: Own 1-2 major client accounts end-to-end as an individual contributor

Senior SPL: Manage a portfolio of clients and mentor a team of SPLs and SPAs

Leadership roles: Engagement Manager, Director of Operations, Head of Client Success, or other senior strategic positions as Verita AI scales

Competitive base salary commensurate with experience

Performance-based bonus structure tied to project outcomes and client satisfaction

Equity grant vested over 4 years

Team & Culture

We're a close-knit, in-person team in San Francisco that takes both the work and each other seriously. A few things to know about how we operate:

We work 996. That means 9am to 9pm, six days a week. We're at a stage where the opportunity in front of us is enormous and the pace of frontier AI is relentless, and we've chosen to match it.

We're in-person, every day. Being together in the office is how we move fast, learn from each other, and build the kind of trust that makes hard problems easier. We are remote one Saturday a month.

We're close-knit. Team dinners, weekend hangs, offsites, and the kind of inside jokes that come from spending real time together. The people you work with become some of the people you're closest to.

We invest in each other. Mentorship, candid feedback, and a shared belief that the best version of this team is one where everyone is getting sharper every week.

If this sounds like the kind of environment where you'd thrive, we'd love to meet you.

Why Verita AI?

You'll be joining a team at the intersection of consumer product, expert community, and frontier AI research, working on problems that directly impact the development of the next generation of AI systems. This is a rare opportunity to build a platform from the ground up, work with world-class clients, and play a defining role in shaping how the world's top experts contribute to AI.

If you're energized by operational challenges, love building systems that scale, and want to be at the center of the most exciting frontier in AI development, we'd love to hear from you.

Our team is here to help with interviews, payments, policy questions, and anything else you need to keep moving.

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