Strategic Projects Lead, Coding/RLE

As a Strategic Projects Lead, Coding/RLE you’ll run multi-week to multi-month coding data initiatives for leading AI and platform teams. You’ll coordinate hundreds to thousands of highly skilled SWE Fellows, design and own technical evaluation and annotation workflows, and be accountable for delivery, margins, quality and customer relationships. You’ll write and validate coding assessments, build rubric-driven code review processes, instrument quality signals, and quickly adapt workflows when systems and people need to flex to meet deadlines. This role bridges ML/product/engineering and operations — hands-on with code, fluent with metrics, and ruthless about data quality.

Responsibilities

Run multi-week to multi-month coding data initiatives for leading AI and platform teams; coordinate hundreds to thousands of highly skilled SWE Fellows; design and own technical evaluation and annotation workflows; be accountable for delivery, margins, quality and customer relationships; write and validate coding assessments; build rubric-driven code review processes; instrument quality signals; quickly adapt workflows; deliver multi-million ARR-equivalent program scope and metrics; end-to-end delivery of coding-data programs including scoping, assessment design, Fellow selection, annotation, QA, and customer feedback; design and run technical screens (take-homes, unit-test driven tasks, live coding); create rubrics, audit processes and tooling; create scripts/infrastructure (Python/TypeScript/SQL) to automate QA, analytics and reporting

Requirements

2+ years of experience in technical or analytical roles such as software engineering, data, analytics, or technical product; open to people from non-technical jobs who have a coding background or degree; a technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or similar and/or hands-on experience with coding (Python, SQL, or similar); strong coding skills (Python, TypeScript/Node, Java or equivalent) and practical experience with unit tests, CI, version control, and basic infra; strong analytical and data-driven problem solver with a first principles approach to scaling and operational challenges; exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; entrepreneurial, high ownership mindset; fast learner with deep curiosity about AI; should be technical enough to reason deeply about systems, data quality, and tradeoffs, and to earn credibility with technical stakeholders

Benefits

Equity in a fast-growing company; 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching; paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching; medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend; $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development; internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in SF office; flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days; team outings & referral bonuses