Strategic Delivery Lead

The role

The Strategic Delivery Lead is a senior operator accountable for turning a pod's ambition into delivered work. You will own margin performance and operating economics for a portfolio of data products and engagements. You will lead through influence and manage a team of strategic project leads.

What you will do

• Own pod margin performance and operating economics
• Execute the four-quarter roadmap in partnership with Product and Research
• Manage and grow a team of Strategic Project Leads
• Serve as the connective tissue between GTM and Delivery
• Ensure project portfolio is delivered on time and with high quality
• Mobilize cross-functional teams including Research, Engineering, and Expert AI Supply
• Build and optimize the pod workforce plan
• Monitor and improve data quality
• Address recurring failures through systemic fixes in operating models or tooling
• Build the pod playbook and share learnings across the organization

Required qualifications

• Ownership of a P&L or a business unit
• Real depth in a technical domain such as software engineering, computer use and agents, or an adjacent frontier area
• Track record of building rather than administering
• Commercial judgment with customers
• Comfort with ambiguity and with peers who are not your reports
• Typically 8+ years of experience

Nice to have

• 3+ years of people management experience
• experience in AI/ML data, evals or benchmarks
• having built a function or business line inside a fast-scaling company
• a founder or early-employee background in a technical product

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)
• equity compensation

About the company

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises.