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Strategic Project Lead

Mercor· Operations
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Mexico | Mexico CityFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Strategic Project Lead at Mercor responsible for owning end-to-end high-impact projects, supervising Strategic Project Associates, coordinating large networks of domain experts, and delivering exceptional results for leading AI labs and technology companies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-impact projects for some of the world’s leading AI labs and technology companies.
  • Own projects, from customer conversations through successful delivery.
  • Turn complex customer needs into clear plans and help teams execute them effectively.
  • Lead and develop Strategic Project Associates, helping them grow and perform at a high level.
  • Coordinate large groups of domain experts across fields such as software engineering, medicine, law, science, and business.
  • Build trusted relationships with customers and serve as a primary point of contact.
  • Use data and structured problem-solving to understand performance, identify challenges, and improve results.
  • Ensure that projects consistently meet high standards for quality, speed, and customer experience.
  • Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and Machine Learning teams to develop better ways of working.
  • Identify opportunities to expand successful projects and create additional value for customers.

Qualifications

  • 3 - 6+ years of professional experience.
  • Experience owning and delivering complex projects in fast-moving or demanding environments.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to bring structure to unfamiliar or ambiguous challenges.
  • Experience managing people, leading teams, or coordinating multiple stakeholders toward a shared goal.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to understand problems and make decisions.
  • Intellectual curiosity and a genuine interest in understanding how data, technology, and AI systems work.
  • The ability to prioritize effectively and manage several important workstreams at the same time.
  • Confidence working with customers and the judgment to communicate progress, challenges, and recommendations clearly.
  • Ambition and a strong desire to learn, grow, and take on increasing responsibility.
  • Excitement about contributing to AI and having a meaningful impact on one of the world’s most important and rapidly evolving industries.
  • Initiative, adaptability, low ego, and openness to feedback.
  • Enthusiasm for using AI tools, combined with the critical thinking needed to evaluate their output.
  • Experience in startups, consulting, strategy and operations, product, engineering, data, technology, entrepreneurship, Chief of Staff roles, customer-facing positions, or people management can be valuable. No single professional background is required; demonstrated ownership, leadership, learning ability, and execution matter most.
  • Technical or coding experience is not required, but candidates should be comfortable working with data, learning new systems, and developing an understanding of AI-enabled workflows.

Skills

Required:Project managementStakeholder managementData-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Performance-based bonus structure.
  • Meaningful equity ownership in a high-growth U.S. technology company.
  • Benefits above those required by Mexican law.
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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