# Strategic Projects Lead at Encord

- Company: Encord
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://encord.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/encord/84bafd3e-a33a-410e-806b-3497faa36114
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/encord-strategic-projects-lead/

## 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

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