Strategic Delivery Lead
Core
Senior operator accountable for turning a pod's ambition into reliably delivered, high-quality work, owning margin performance and operating economics for a portfolio of AI data products and engagements.
Role type
Senior IC strategic delivery lead (pod owner)
Builds
Samples, off-the-shelf datasets, proprietary data products, and bespoke engagements for frontier and agentic AI systems
Domain
AI/ML data development, frontier AI, and agentic AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
P&L ownership, commercial judgment, technical domain depth (software engineering/computer use/agents), people management, cross-functional leadership, ambiguity tolerance, process improvement
Preferred skills
AI/ML data, evals, or benchmarks experience; building a function or business line in a fast-scaling company; founder or early-employee background
Technologies
frontier AI, agentic AI, data development tools
Responsibilities
Own pod margin performance and operating economics; execute the four-quarter roadmap with Product and Research; manage and grow a team of Strategic Project Leads; serve as connective tissue between GTM and Delivery; mobilize cross-functional teams for capacity and alignment; build and optimize the pod's workforce plan; obsess over quality and turn recurring failures into systemic fixes; build the pod playbook and share learnings across the organization
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management experience
