Strategic Projects Lead (Studio PMO)

Mecka AI; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka AI is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to build and run project management for studio projects, owning the most complex initiatives end to end. You will plan from scoping to delivery, lead a team, and ensure on-time, on-spec outcomes.

You will coordinate hardware, engineering, operations, and partners, translating customer needs into delivery plans while managing scope, schedule, and risks.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8+ years in technical program management, management consulting, product operations, or operations leadership.
• Experience managing a team for at least 2 years.
• Record of leading cross-functional programs to fixed deadlines, ideally with hardware.

Responsibilities

• Build the project management office for studio work with a single view of all active projects.
• Lead the most complex projects from scoping to delivery, owning plan, targets, budget, and risks.
• Turn customer requirements into delivery plans and plan capacity ahead of demand.
• Keep hardware, engineering, operations, and partner teams aligned on one plan and remove blockers.
• Hire, coach, and lead a team of project managers and report weekly to the Head of Studio.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Hardware experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

Asana

Jira

Job description

About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.
We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.
We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.

About the Role

Alongside field capture, we run studio projects: data collections built to a customer's specification, often with new hardware and tight deadlines. Each one depends on hardware, operations, engineering, and partner teams moving to the same plan.

As Strategic Projects Lead, you will build and run project management for our studio projects and own our most complex projects from end to end. You will plan each project from scoping to delivery, lead a team of project managers, and be accountable for every project landing on time and to spec.

What You Will Do

• Portfolio: Build the project management office for studio work, with one view of every active project, a regular review cadence, and clear escalation paths.

• Project ownership: Lead the most complex projects yourself from scoping through delivery, owning the plan, targets, budget, and risks.

• Capacity planning: Turn customer requirements into delivery plans and plan capacity ahead of demand.

• Cross-functional delivery: Keep hardware, engineering, operations, and partner teams working to one plan and clear blockers between them.

• Team leadership: Hire, coach, and lead a team of project managers, and report status and risks to the Head of Studio every week.

What You Bring

• Experience: 5 to 8+ years in technical program management, management consulting, product operations, or operations leadership, including at least 2 years managing a team.

• Complex delivery: A record of leading cross-functional programs to fixed deadlines, ideally involving hardware.

• Structured thinking: The ability to turn ambiguous requirements into a clear plan and give leadership a clear call on trade-offs.

Even better if you have

• Industry: Experience with hardware pilots, computer vision or robotics data collection, or production settings such as film or manufacturing.

• Vendors: Experience scaling delivery through external vendors or partners.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, we will partner with you to meet your needs.

We may use AI-assisted tools to help evaluate applications against the requirements of this role. These tools support our recruiting team in identifying qualified candidates but do not replace human judgment or limit which applications may be reviewed or considered.