Strategic Projects Lead, Coding

The role

You will run multi-week to multi-month coding data initiatives for AI and platform teams. You will coordinate SWE Fellows, design technical evaluation workflows, and manage delivery, margins, and quality.

What you will do

• Scope and deliver multi-million ARR-equivalent programs
• Manage end-to-end delivery of coding-data programs
• Design and run technical screens including take-homes and live coding
• Create rubrics, audit processes and tooling for code annotations
• Create scripts and infrastructure to automate QA, analytics and reporting

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in technical or analytical roles such as software engineering, data, analytics, or technical product
• 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)
• Practical experience with unit tests, CI, version control, and basic infra
• Strong analytical and data driven problem solver
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Entrepreneurial, high ownership mindset
• Fast learner with deep curiosity about AI

Nice to have

• people who come out of non technical jobs that have a coding background or degree

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

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.