Strategic Project Lead(AI Product Sales) with Early Stage/ Startup/Founder Exp

Job Description

Job Description

Salary - $140,000 - $200,000

What You'll Own

Serve as the main point of contact for 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

Own 2-3 projects concurrently or one marquee project at any given time

Requirements

Must-Have

3+ years full-time experience in a strategic project lead or equivalent role at Mercor, Scale AI, or a comparable frontier human data company

Full-time employment history. No contractor or annotator experience counts toward the bar.

Proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects with 7+ figure contract value

Experience working directly with clients in a customer-facing capacity

Comfort owning end-to-end project execution under an intense pace and high stakes

Based in SF or willing to relocate. 5 days in office, 996 schedule.

Nice-to-Have

Background in data operations, engineering, computer science, math, or a related technical field

For Mercor or Scale AI candidates: senior tenure only. Junior or early-tenure candidates from these companies are typically not the right bar.

Core candidates who joined post-October 2025 Series C round are high-signal

Experience mentoring or managing junior team members