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Internal Strategic Projects Lead

Patronus AI· Operations
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San Francisco, CAfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Lead the end-to-end expert lifecycle for Patronus AI’s simulation environments, from sourcing and vetting to onboarding, engagement, and payment. Collaborate with research and delivery teams to ensure the right expert expertise for each project, scale the number of experts supported, and build repeatable processes and tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Own the expert lifecycle end to end, from sourcing and outreach through screening, contracting, onboarding, engagement, and retention.
  • Design and run the vetting process that qualifies every expert before they work with the research team, and continuously improve it based on how well it predicts delivered quality.
  • Build sourcing strategies suited to senior and licensed professionals, across registries, associations, alumni networks, referrals, and vendor partners.
  • Partner with research and delivery leads to define the expertise each environment requires and match the right experts to each project.
  • Manage day-to-day engagements with experts, including assigning work, reviewing submissions against quality standards, resolving blockers, and approving payment.
  • Own the quality and incentive systems for the expert community, including scoring rubrics, peer review, bonuses, and ongoing calibration.
  • Instrument and report on the funnel, tracking conversion, time in stage, cost per onboarded expert, responsiveness, and retention, and use data to decide where to invest next.
  • Turn recurring operational work into repeatable processes, documentation, and tooling that increase the number of experts supported per internal headcount.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Economics, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1+ years in expert networks, AI data and evaluation companies, marketplace or talent operations, or professional services resourcing, with ownership of both throughput and quality.
  • Proven track record of building an operational funnel from the ground up and instrumenting it, using data to identify and remove bottlenecks.
  • Highly analytical, with experience defining KPIs, building dashboards, and making resourcing decisions from data.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to engage credibly with senior professionals across unfamiliar domains.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and building structure where none exists, with a hands-on mentality and bias toward action and automation.
  • Experience working with contractors or licensed professionals, including contracting, onboarding, and payments, is a plus.
  • Comfort using AI tools to do real operational work.
  • Good character, integrity, and respect for others.

Skills

Required:Expert lifecycle managementVettting and quality assuranceSourcing strategy

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity packages
  • 15 days of paid vacation per annum
  • Parental & sick leave
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
  • 401(k) plan + matching
  • In-office lunch & dinner
  • Whoop band
  • Monthly meal stipend
  • Monthly health and wellness stipend
  • Equinox membership
  • Fun global offsites!
Last updated Oct 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Patronus AI

Simulating the World's Intelligence

Patronus AI develops simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate progress toward human-aligned AGI

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