
Strategic Project Lead

Strategic Project Lead

Strategic Project Lead
Mercor
Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion, focused on enhancing AI development through human intelligence. The Strategic Project Lead (SPL) role involves managing multi-million-dollar projects, building client relationships with top AI labs, and orchestrating a large team of contributors to ensure operational excellence and quality reporting.
Qualification
- Experience in consulting, finance, startups, or other operationally intense environments.
- Strong analytical and communication abilities.
- Proven track record of managing complex projects.
- Comfortable working directly with high-profile clients.
- Excited by process optimization and large-scale execution.
Responsibility
- Drive the tactical execution of multi-million-dollar projects.
- Build deep client relationships with researchers at top AI labs.
- Orchestrate the work of 1,000+ contributors.
- Design and manage end-to-end data pipelines, from customer specifications to final delivery.
- Diagnose bottlenecks, restructure workflows, and implement solutions that improve quality, throughput, and cost-efficiency.
- Act as the primary point of contact for leading AI labs.
- Deliver clear, consistent reporting and proactively anticipate client needs.
- Manage 1,000+ distributed contributors in Slack-based workspaces.



