Strategic Projects Lead - Audio Data

About the Company
Our client is building the foundational data and benchmark infrastructure for next‑generation Voice AI, helping frontier AI labs train models to understand humanity across every language, dialect, and accent.

Backed by Y Combinator and over $3.5M in seed funding from top‑tier Silicon Valley investors (including surgepoint, Amino Capital, and co‑founders of Twitch and Cruise), they operate as a lean, elite team of ~10 scaling rapidly in the Bay Area.

About the Role
As the Strategic Projects Lead - Audio Data , you will own and deliver high‑priority audio data collection projects end‑to‑end. In this high‑ownership, ground‑floor role, you will be the single‑threaded owner of large‑scale, six‑figure+ contracts, driving messy and complex projects from customer kickoff through to final, high‑quality delivery.

What You Will Do

Project Delivery: Manage complex audio data collection projects, overseeing contributor sourcing, engagement, quality assurance, and client communication.

Quantitative Operations: Track project progress and KPIs quantitatively. You will build dashboards, analyze throughput/quality data, and proactively solve operational bottlenecks.

Client Interface: Work directly with leading frontier AI labs to clarify requirements, deliver progress updates, and iterate based on their feedback.

Product Collaboration: Propose and drive technical and product changes with the engineering team to improve platform capabilities, contributor workflows, and QA tooling.

Resource Management: Hire and manage external QA resources as needed, collaborating directly with the co‑founders and engineers to unblock delivery.

What You Bring

Experience: 2 to 7 years of data operations experience specifically on the supply side at a data annotation/labeling vendor company (e.g., Scale AI, Surge AI, Appen, Micro1, TELUS Digital, DataAnnotation, or a similar AI data startup).

Track Record: Proven success delivering six‑figure+ data collection or annotation contracts end‑to‑end.

Technical Domain: Direct experience managing audio, speech, voice, or multimodal data projects.

Analytical Chops: Strong analytical skills with the ability to build dashboards and use data to solve quantitative operational problems.

QA Design: Quality workflow design experience, including creating annotation guidelines, QA rubrics, and quality control systems.

Mindset: Extreme ownership, resilience in the face of ambiguity, and a habit of pushing through obstacles to deliver results.

Presence: Ability to work full‑time on‑site (5 days/week) in the San Mateo/Redwood City, CA area.

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