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 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.