Strategic Project Lead

Core team
$350K - $500K/yr compensation

Required Skills

Leadership & Team Management
Data Operations
Human Data

Job Description

Job Title: Strategic Project Lead


Job Type: Full-Time


Location: Remote


Your Role:

As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL), you will be the main POC for our top AI Labs customers and manage a team of PhDs/Professors to train frontier AI models, ensuring the highest standards in data integrity, scalability, and quality. You will oversee the design and execution of workflows that structure, optimize, and manage large-scale data pipelines. This role requires an analytical mindset, strong technical expertise, and the ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives that support AI model development and performance.


What You'll Do:

  1. Own the project end-to-end, ensuring top AI Lab clients are extremely happy.
  2. Own and manage data pipelines, improving efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
  3. Manage a team of human data managers & leads reviewing the tasks of experts.
  4. Communicate directly with top AI Labs on massive projects.
  5. Work with human data engineers to define and manage KPIs.
  6. Provide executive-level insights and updates on key projects, data performance, and operational impact.
  7. You will report directly to our CEO and Head of Human Data.


What We're Looking For:

  1. Extremely good soft skills.
  2. To grind very long hours every day, including weekends.
  3. Startup and entrepreneurial mindset.
  4. Strong background in data operations, engineering, or computer science.
  5. 2+ years in a leadership role, driving operational processes, managing large-scale data projects, or optimizing workflows.
  6. Passion for building from the ground up, identifying inefficiencies, and executing solutions rapidly.


Regional Hiring Notes

This role is being hired in parallel across multiple regions due to coverage needs, compliance requirements, and time-zone alignment. Responsibilities and expectations are identical; employment terms vary by region.

About micro1
micro1 is a data engine that helps AI labs train foundational models and enterprises build AI agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments used to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations used to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings. Our data engine includes an AI recruiter agent that sources and vets domain experts, a data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data, and a pipeline performance system that ensures both quality and velocity.
Our goal is to have 1 billion people doing meaningful work by contributing their expertise to the development of frontier AI models. We’ve raised $40M+ in funding, and our AI recruiter has powered more than 1 million AI-led interviews as our global network of experts expands to form the human intelligence layer for AGI.

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