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About the Role
The Strategic Projects Lead owns customer projects end-to-end, transforming vague research goals into trusted datasets. This role is operationally intense, requiring deep understanding of specifications, stakeholder management, and high-quality deliverable fulfillment.
Responsibilities
- Own multi-project delivery end to end, including scoping, contributor orchestration, quality assessment, and shipping.
- Recruit and manage a pool of expert contributors who build gyms and trajectories.
- Track and prioritize milestones for project completion in a dynamic requirements environment.
- Assess delivery quality regularly before customer submission.
Requirements
- Operationally intense background (Consulting, banking, private equity, startup operations, ex-founder, or human-data industry).
- Approximately 2+ years of experience, with flexibility for strong candidates.
- Proven experience in creating positive customer outcomes under deadline pressure.
- Ability to lead through influence, managing expert contributors without direct authority.
- Capacity to develop clear specifications, build credibility, and ensure follow-through.
- Ability to think quickly, set priorities, and make decisions impacting business outcomes.
- Willingness to partner directly with researchers to understand model failures and market dynamics.
- Desire to stay close to the cutting edge of frontier model research.
Skills
- Specification understanding
- Stakeholder management
- Project delivery
- Contributor management
- Quality assessment
- Strategic thinking
- Product management
- Influence leadership
- Rapid decision-making
Experience Level
- 2+ years
About the Company
- Chakra Labs' mission is to encode human taste into intelligence.
- We build high-fidelity environments, evals, and datasets for frontier AI research.
- Our work focuses on post-training, agent environments, data quality, and research infrastructure.
- We aim to build measurable, useful, and hard-to-fake AI model improvements.