Mercor
Strategic Project Lead
Mexico | Mexico City. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will own high-impact projects for AI labs and technology companies from customer conversations through delivery. You will lead Strategic Project Associates and coordinate large networks of domain experts.
What you will do
- Lead high-impact projects for AI labs and technology companies
- Own projects from customer conversations through successful delivery
- Turn complex customer needs into clear plans
- Lead and develop Strategic Project Associates
- Coordinate large groups of domain experts
- Build trusted relationships with customers
- Use data and structured problem-solving to improve results
- Ensure projects meet standards for quality, speed, and customer experience
- Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and Machine Learning teams
- Identify opportunities to expand successful projects
Required qualifications
- 3 - 6+ years of professional experience
- Experience owning and delivering complex projects in fast-moving or demanding environments
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience managing people, leading teams, or coordinating multiple stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Strong analytical skills and comfort using data
- Intellectual curiosity regarding data, technology, and AI systems
- Ability to prioritize effectively and manage several workstreams
- Confidence working with customers
- Ambition and a desire to learn and grow
- Initiative, adaptability, low ego, and openness to feedback
- Enthusiasm for using AI tools
Nice to have
- Experience in startups, consulting, strategy and operations, product, engineering, data, technology, entrepreneurship, Chief of Staff roles, customer-facing positions, or people management
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 on real-world professional work. The company is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation.