What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Projects Lead, Generative AI position at scaleai?
Scale’s Generative AI business unit is currently seeing historic levels of growth. As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL), you will lead initiatives that will drive $XXM in new revenue for the business. This is a demanding role, and as an SPL, you should be prepared to wear many hats across all dimensions of Operations. The ideal SPL should have a strong entrepreneurial mindset, be comfortable getting into the weeds, and be excited about intense, impactful work that leads to accelerated career progression.
You will:
- Serve as the full owner of our most visible and high impact customer pipelines, making decisions that directly impact data quality, operational efficiency, revenue, and margins
- Understand customer requirements and design data taxonomy best suited to improving model performance based on customer needs
- Build out pipeline infrastructure to ensure quality and efficiency
- Train, coach, and manage dynamic and global teams
- Build analytics to make data-driven decisions
- Partner with diverse stakeholders (Engineering Product Ops Go-to-Market) to work on problems that will drive advancements for the largest LLMs in the world
- Give regular progress updates to Scale’s executive team
Ideally, you’d have:
- Strong technical background (a degree in engineering or computer science is ideal, and at minimum the role requires the ability to do data analytics using SQL or Python).
- 2 years of experience leading a team, developing product or operational processes, or as a SWE.
- Strong problem solving capabilities (experience working on operational challenges is a plus) - ability to come up with creative solutions to complex, ambiguous operational problems
- Entrepreneurial experience and mindset - you are excited about building things from scratch and are able to identify issues and execute quickly
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Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:
$140,000 - $175,000 USD
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Salary : $140,000 - $175,000
