Strategic Project Lead, RL Environments for Financial AI (SF, On-site)

The role

You will drive account delivery and manage training environments for frontier lab customers. You will act as a lead product manager to shape the product roadmap and manage customer relationships.

What you will do

• Own day-to-day delivery and quality of training environments shipped to frontier lab customers
• Manage contractors and run experiments
• Act as one of the lead product managers
• Work with engineers to ship features and drive the product roadmap
• Manage customer relationships and understand requirements
• Build operational systems including documentation and quality guardrails
• Contribute to strategic and financial planning across pricing, revenue modeling and project economics

Required qualifications

• 2+ years in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds or finance-focused consulting
• Ability to explain the work you've done in depth
• Track record of running projects or workstreams end to end
• Experience managing external stakeholders, contractors or high-level client deliverables
• Startup experience or exposure
• Self-starter track record such as an entrepreneurial side project, a business you started, or something meaningful you built on your own
• Hands-on building with AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar)
• Ability to work full-time in person in San Francisco, 5 days a week

Nice to have

• a degree from a strong technical or CS program

Benefits

• Competitive comp
• Fully covered healthcare, including dental and vision
• Free meals while working
• gym membership
• Free transportation to and from the office (Uber/Waymo)
• $10K+ relocation stipend
• 401(k) with 4% match

Before you apply

• H-1B transfers supported; new sponsorship available, including OPT/new grad
• Initial Screen - intro call on your background and past work
• Second Round - practical deep dive with the project leads
• Take-Home Case Study - a scoped project based on real work
• Case Study Presentation - present your case study to the team

About the company

Our client is a fast-moving AI startup in San Francisco that recently closed a $30M Series A with participation from Y Combinator. The team builds fully managed reinforcement learning (RL) environments and benchmarks that frontier AI labs use to train agents to do real financial services work.