Manager, Strategic Projects

The role

You will lead an SPL team managing critical AI data and evaluation projects. You will own delivery, quality, and scalability while acting as a link between customers, researchers, and engineering teams.

What you will do

• Leading and managing a team of SPLs across multiple complex AI data and evaluation projects
• Driving on time, high quality delivery across custom data pipelines and expert labeling workflows
• Translating researcher and customer needs into clear project plans, scopes, and operational workflows
• Owning performance metrics across your portfolio, including quality, throughput, SLAs, utilization, and margin
• Ensuring a top tier experience for Handshake Fellows
• Partnering with Product and Engineering to evolve internal tooling, workflows, and systems

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in operationally intensive roles such as marketplace operations, data operations, strategy and operations
• 2+ years managing high performing teams in fast paced, execution focused environments
• Experience leading complex, multi stakeholder projects from definition through delivery

Nice to have

• Prior experience in investment banking, private equity or management consulting
• Background in AI data operations, ML ops, or technical services

Benefits

• Generous Equity Grant vested over 4 years
• Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs spread throughout the first year
• Well Defined Performance Bonus ranging between 10 - 100% of base
• Medical Insurance Coverage
• Food credit for every in person day

About the company

Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI works directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.