[Hiring] Founding Strategic Project Lead @talentpluto

Role Description

As the founding Strategic Project Lead, you will own delivery end to end. Responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end delivery of data projects against lab and customer requirements
• Source data through and manage a global contributor network
• Run quality control and help build out scalable QC systems
• Manage customer relationships and coordinate across all sides of delivery
• Operate with high agency in an unstructured, fast-moving environment

Projects typically run a few weeks to a month and move fast. This is an operationally heavy, high-ownership role with long hours, ideal for someone who treats it as more than a job and wants exposure to the fast-growing AI data space. There is a clear growth path from this seat toward senior leadership and operations as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Roughly 2+ years of post-college experience, with openness to high-agency new grads who have interned at a human-data startup
• High agency and a generalist mindset, comfortable wearing multiple hats
• Comfort thriving in an unstructured, early-stage environment
• Willingness to take on operationally heavy work and long hours
• Bonus: experience at a human-data startup, a background in product management, or aspirations to one day found a company

Benefits

• Compensation: $150K-$200K base, plus equity and profit share

Company Description

Our partner is an early-stage, fast-growing AI data startup working with frontier AI labs and top voice-model companies to deliver specialized data sets, including voice, reinforcement learning, and environment data. Backed by leading investors and one of the fastest-growing companies in its cohort, the team hit a $1M run rate within its first several weeks. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to join as the first external hire, with substantial equity upside and a clear path into senior leadership for someone who wants to build.