Strategic Project Associate

Mexico | Mexico City. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will execute large-scale projects for AI labs and technology companies. You will manage project portfolios, coordinate domain experts, and resolve operational or data-quality issues.

What you will do

Execute complex, large-scale projects for AI labs and technology companies.
Help manage multimillion-dollar project portfolios.
Source, evaluate, onboard, and manage the performance of hundreds of domain experts.
Monitor project performance and investigate operational or data-quality issues.
Develop understanding of data importance and project decisions on AI model performance.
Anticipate blockers and prioritize competing needs.
Build working relationships with customers and communicate progress.
Collaborate with Strategic Project Leads, Operations, Engineering, and Machine Learning teams.
Design and improve processes for project scale and efficiency.
Identify opportunities to expand successful projects.

Required qualifications

0 - 3 years of professional experience.
Strong analytical thinking.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Intellectual curiosity regarding systems, data, and AI models.
High level of ownership, urgency, and attention to detail.
Ability to prioritize effectively and manage several workstreams.
Comfort operating in ambiguous situations.
Enthusiasm for using AI tools.
Openness to feedback.
Evidence of taking initiative, building something, leading others, or assuming meaningful responsibility.

Nice to have

Experience in startups, consulting, strategy and operations, product, engineering, data, technology, entrepreneurship, or customer-facing roles.

Benefits

Competitive salary.
Performance-based bonus structure.
Meaningful equity ownership.
Benefits above those required by Mexican law.

About the company

Mercor builds infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI. The company is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation.