Chakra Labs Strategic Projects Lead

Source: Paraform - $185000-$205000 base (up to $250K for senior candidates with deep experience) 0.05%-0.15% equity annual bonus if company hits targets.

Location: Hybrid 3 days in office in New York City or Seattle. Visa: open to transfers and new sponsorships (H1B TN).

We are looking for a Strategic Projects Lead with experience running complex deadline-driven projects for customers as an SPL or Deployment Strategist at a human-data lab or in consulting banking or startup operations. You will own customer projects from start to finish taking a vague research goal from a frontier AI lab and turning it into a dataset that researchers trust. This is one of the most operationally demanding roles at Chakra and the closest to the customer. Vibe coding a plus; high agency sound judgment and excitement about AI data matter most.

• Owning multi-project delivery from start to finish: tracking what each lab customer needs and making sure deliverables ship on time and meet a high quality bar

• Finding hiring and managing pools of expert contributors who build gyms and trajectories leading through influence rather than authority

• Working with researchers to understand what matters most and prioritize milestones when requirements change overnight

• Hands-on product work with engineers to shape the internal tools and workflows behind each deliverable

• Checking trajectories verifiers and evals before they reach customers; telling truly useful work from work that only looks complete

RL Environments Trajectories Verifiers Evals Post-Training Data

In collaboration with leading research teams Chakra Labs builds deterministic pixel-perfect reinforcement learning environments and trajectory datasets to push capability boundaries. 15 employees founded 2025 $25M total funding New York City.

• 1 years in consulting investment banking or a fast-paced startup ops role (or SPL / Deployment Strategist at a human-data lab)

• Experience running complex deadline-driven customer projects

• High agency sound judgment real excitement about AI data

• Comfort with vibe coding a plus not required

• Based in or able to work 3 days/week in NYC or Seattle