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About the role
You'll lead the Learning & Training team, owning the function's strateg and its results: how fast fellows ramp, and how good their work is once they do. This is a player-coach role. You'll lead a team of learning design leads and also roll up your sleeves: step into a pod when a new lab spec lands, build a course or coaching plan yourself, and set the bar by example as well as by review. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in enablement, learning design, or training, including 3+ years managing a team of experienced individual contributors
- A player-coach mindset. You're willing to hustle as an IC and still build things yourself when the work calls for it
- Operations sense. You've managed capacity across many concurrent projects where training ships in days, not quarters
- Fluency with AI models and data. You use models daily, can reason about how they fail, and understand how data quality shapes model behavior. Coding expertise is not required
- A track record of defining and holding a quality bar through standards, review, and coaching
- Skill at influencing up and across. You can make the case for a function to operations leaders who measure everything
More about this role
Handshake AI is a human data business built on the largest early-career network in the world: about 18 million students and over a million employers. Frontier AI labs come to us when they need domain experts at scale, from PhD physicists evaluating reasoning to AI-native undergrads giving nuanced feedback on model outputs.
Learning & Training (L&T) makes that expertise usable. We get fellows project-ready fast, then develop them into high-quality AI training talent. We teach them how models work, how to spot hallucinations, how to give structured feedback that improves a model, and how to think about alignment and safety.
The team runs a forward-deployed model. Learning designers embed in project pods alongside operations and turn technical specs into training promptly: playbooks, courses, interactive tools, and targeted coaching on specific errors. They also build team-wide systems like assessment, analytics, and design agents.
You'll lead the Learning & Training team, owning the function's strateg and its results: how fast fellows ramp, and how good their work is once they do.
This is a player-coach role. You'll lead a team of learning design leads and also roll up your sleeves:...
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