Strategic Project Lead
San FranciscoFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Strategic Project Lead coordinating high-priority research and deployment projects to ensure delivery, resource alignment, and impact across cross-functional teams in a fast-moving AI robotics context.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of assigned research and deployment initiatives from intake through completion.
- Partner with researchers and stakeholders to define scope, success criteria, timelines, and operational requirements.
- Prioritize work and allocate resources across competing projects based on impact, urgency, and available capacity.
- Build execution plans that define staffing, robot allocation, dependencies, milestones, and delivery timelines.
- Direct project execution across Research Associates, Production Operations, and partner teams.
- Identify and resolve risks, bottlenecks, staffing gaps, and dependency conflicts before they impact delivery.
- Drive project reviews, stakeholder communication, escalations, and delivery decisions.
- Improve planning, prioritization, and operational systems as the organization scales.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in program management, operations, technical project management, consulting, startup operations, or similar roles.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong track record of translating ambiguous goals into executable plans and successful outcomes.
- Experience balancing competing priorities and making thoughtful resource-allocation decisions.
- Ability to quickly understand technical goals, operational constraints, and execution tradeoffs.
- Experience communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
Required:Program managementCross-functional leadershipPlanning and executionRisk and dependency managementStakeholder communication
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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