Strategic Projects Lead
Role Overview
The Strategic Projects Lead at Bespoke Labs is responsible for driving operational excellence and managing large contracts with labs and enterprises. This senior role requires a proactive approach to make high-impact decisions and oversee a diverse team of experts, contributing significantly to revenue growth and operational processes.
Perks & Benefits
This remote position offers flexibility in work hours, aligning with various time zones. Employees can expect a culture of chaos and innovation, with opportunities for significant career growth and learning in the cutting-edge field of AI. The company encourages a scrappy, hungry mindset for those eager to make an impact.
Full Job Description
About Bespoke Labs
Bespoke Labs is an applied AI research lab pioneering data and RL environment curation for training and evaluating agents.
Recently, we curated Open Thoughts, one of the best open reasoning datasets used by multiple frontier labs, trained SOTA specialized models such as Bespoke-MiniChart-7B and Bespoke-MiniCheck, and taught agents to do multi-turn tool-calling with reinforcement learning.
We are also core contributors to Terminal-bench, a leading benchmark for agents used by most frontier labs. Bespoke Labs creates RL environments for frontier labs and specialized agents for enterprises.
About the Role
We need an SPL who obsesses over operational excellence, thrives in ambiguity, and can own multi-million dollar contracts with labs and enterprises from day one.
What You'll Do
Project Ownership & Execution
Own end-to-end delivery of customer projects by managing budget, schedule, and scope
Track project milestones and deliverables, ensuring quality standards are met
Identify bottlenecks early and resolve problems before they become blockers
Communicate directly with customers to understand needs, set priorities, and manage expectations
Operations & Scale
Build and scale data pipelines and operational processes that drive real revenue
Manage large teams of global experts (annotators, engineers, domain specialists)
Coordinate work across distributed teams to hit aggressive deadlines
Design systems and workflows from scratch when playbooks don't exist
Strategy & Decision-Making
Make high-impact decisions daily on resource allocation, scope, and trade-offs
Use data analysis (SQL/Python) to track performance and optimize operations
Organize, plan, and prioritize work across multiple concurrent projects
Wear multiple hats: ops, strategy, product, and execution
What We're Looking For
Technical foundation: CS/Engineering degree, comfortable with SQL/Python for data analysis
Project management chops: 1+ years managing complex projects, teams, or operations (PM experience is a major plus)
Scrappy mindset: You figure things out without a playbook and build solutions from first principles
Communication skills: You can coordinate teams, brief stakeholders, and resolve conflicts effectively
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