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Strategic Projects Lead, Coding/RLE

Handshake· HAI Delivery Ops
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San Francisco, CA$172k - $204kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Lead multi-week to multi-month coding data initiatives for leading AI and platform teams, coordinating hundreds to thousands of SWE Fellows, designing and owning evaluation/annotation workflows, and managing delivery, margins, quality, and customer relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Multi-million ARR-equivalent program scope and delivery metrics.
  • End-to-end delivery of coding-data programs: scoping → assessment design → Fellow selection → annotation → QA → customer feedback.
  • Design and run technical screens (take-homes, unit-test driven tasks, live coding) that populate the SWE Talent Bench
  • Create rubrics, audit processes and tooling to ensure code annotations/model labels meet production quality.
  • Create scripts/infrastructure (Python/TypeScript/SQL) to automate QA, analytics and reporting.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in technical or analytical roles such as software engineering, data, analytics, or technical product.
  • A technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or similar and/or hands-on experience with coding (Python, SQL, or similar).
  • Strong coding skills (Python, TypeScript/Node, Java or equivalent) and practical experience with unit tests, CI, version control, and basic infra.
  • Strong analytical and data driven problem solver with a first principles approach to scaling and operational challenges.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Entrepreneurial, high ownership mindset with comfort with ambiguity and end-to-end ownership.
  • Fast learner with deep curiosity about AI and staying up to date on LLMs and AI trends.
  • You don’t need to be a full-time engineer, but should be technical enough to reason deeply about systems, data quality, and tradeoffs.

Skills

Required:CodingAssessment design and evaluationQA and data qualityStakeholder management

Benefits

  • Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
  • Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
  • Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
  • Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
  • Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
  • Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
  • Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
  • Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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