Encord is the multimodal data layer for physical AI. Manage, curate, annotate, and align petabytes of data - from sensor streams to video to text. Trusted by 300+ AI teams including Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. Backed by Y Combinator and CRV.
About the role
As a Strategic Projects Lead, you'll fully own and optimize the data annotation and machine learning workflows behind Encord's largest client relationships. You'll work directly with clients, annotation specialists, ML engineers, Account Managers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure the data powering their models is fast, accurate, and scalable. This is a hands-on, high visibility role. You have direct influence on whether Encord's highest-value customers renew and expand.
What they're looking for
- A sharp, execution-oriented operator with a consulting or AI-company pedigree . A structured thinker, strong PM instincts, bias for getting things done
- Analytically rigorous and comfortable with ambiguity. You break down operational problems from first principles
- Technically fluent: comfortable querying a database, auditing annotation outputs, or automating a workflow in Python
- A natural translator between ML engineers and non-technical clients on multi-stakeholder projects
- Entrepreneurial — you take ownership without waiting to be told what to do
- 3–7 years of professional experience, with a strong preference for backgrounds in top-tier strategy consulting and/or operations or data roles at leading AI or technology companies
More about this role
Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.
Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.
As a Strategic Projects Lead, you'll fully own and optimize the data annotation and machine learning workflows behind Encord's largest client relationships. You'll work directly with clients, annotation specialists, ML engineers, Account Managers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure the data powering their models is fast, accurate, and scalable.
This is a hands-on, high visibility role. You have direct influence on whether Encord's highest-value customers renew and expand.
Own data annotation projects end-to-end, translating complex AI/ML requirements into clear workflows and instructions for annotation teams
Design and refine annotation processes, audit results, and build feedback loops that raise data quality
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