Strategic Project Lead

About the Role

The world’s leading AI companies partner with Mercor to execute high-impact projects involving human expertise and data. As a Strategic Project Lead, you will own these projects end to end, build strong customer relationships, and lead the teams responsible for delivering exceptional results.

You will supervise Strategic Project Associates and coordinate large networks of domain experts. SPLs can be responsible for project portfolios generating more than $10 million in annual revenue and involving over 1,000 contributors.

This is a hands-on leadership role for ambitious professionals who enjoy solving complex problems, developing people, and turning challenging goals into results. It offers the opportunity to take on significant responsibility, accelerate your growth, and have a tangible impact on AI - the defining industry of our time.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What We’re Looking For

• 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. You will work directly with international colleagues, customers, and experts.

• 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.

Why Join Mercor?

Mercor offers the opportunity to accelerate your career inside a profitable, high-growth U.S. technology startup at the forefront of AI.

You will work in a fast-paced and high-intensity environment where projects move quickly, standards are high, and your decisions can have a visible impact on customers, teams, and the business. You will gain exposure to complex global projects, lead talented people, and grow alongside Mercor’s expanding team in Mexico.

This role is particularly well suited to ambitious people who want to challenge themselves, grow as operators and leaders, and help shape an industry that will transform how people and companies work.

Compensation and 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.