Manager Strategic Projects, India

Cacheflow; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Equity Grant vested over 4 years

Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs

Well Defined Performance Bonus

Medical Insurance Coverage

Food credit for every in person day

Job summary

Cacheflow is seeking a Manager for Strategic Projects, responsible for leading a team in AI data operations. You will ensure high quality delivery across key projects while managing an SPL team to meet customer needs efficiently.

The ideal candidate will have extensive operational experience, managing high-performing teams in fast-paced environments. You will be pivotal in ensuring projects meet their commitments while maintaining metrics such as quality and throughput.

Additionally, you will enjoy a range of perks, including a generous equity grant and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in operationally intensive roles.
• 2+ years of managing high performing teams.
• Experience in investment banking or management consulting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of SPLs across multiple AI data projects.
• Drive high quality delivery across data pipelines.
• Translate researcher and customer needs into project plans.

Skills

Operational excellence

Team management

AI data operations

Project management

Strategic thinking

Education

7+ years in operational roles

Experience in investment banking or consulting

Job description

Manager, Strategic Projects

You will lead an SPL team that sits at the center of our most critical AI data and evaluation work. This is a high intensity, high visibility role where you own delivery, quality, and scalability across some of our most important customer and lab programs.

You will manage a team of SPLs across multiple high stakes AI data projects, set the standard for operational excellence, and act as the connective tissue between customers, researchers, procurement partners, Operations leadership, and Product and Engineering. You are comfortable in environments with high pressure and fast change, and you know how to keep teams aligned, motivated, and executing at a very high bar.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading and managing a team of SPLs across multiple complex AI data and evaluation projects, ensuring clarity of ownership, priorities, and execution.
• Driving on time, high quality delivery across custom data pipelines and expert labeling workflows, with a sharp focus on throughput, quality, and cost.
• Translating researcher and customer needs into clear project plans, scopes, and operational workflows that SPLs and Fellows can execute.
• Owning performance metrics across your portfolio, including quality, throughput, SLAs, utilization, and margin, and using data to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensuring a top tier experience for Handshake Fellows, enabling them to produce high quality, scalable data while feeling supported and informed.
• Partnering with Product and Engineering to evolve internal tooling, workflows, and systems that unlock step function gains in efficiency and quality.

What success looks like in the first 6 to 12 months:

• Your SPL team consistently delivers on or ahead of commitments for our most important AI data and evaluation programs, with clear, referenceable wins.
• Key operational metrics across your portfolio improve materially, such as quality, on time delivery, throughput, and margin.
• SPLs see you as a trusted and supportive leader who raises the bar on performance while providing clear direction and coaching.
• Product, Engineering, and Engagement teams proactively involve you in planning and scoping for new programs because they trust your judgment and operational instincts.

You will work closely with:

• Strategic Project Leads (SPLs) to set priorities, unblock delivery, coach performance, and build strong operational habits.
• Operations leadership on resourcing, staffing models, and long term capacity planning.
• Researchers, procurement partners, and Engagement Managers to translate research and business goals into executable project plans.
• Product and Engineering on internal tools, data pipelines, and systems that make SPLs and Fellows significantly more effective.

What You Will Bring

• 7+ years in operationally intensive roles such as marketplace operations, data operations, strategy and operations.
• 2+ years of managing high performing teams in fast paced, execution focused environments.
• Prior experience in investment banking, private equity or management consulting strongly preferred.
• Experience leading complex, multi stakeholder projects from definition through delivery, ideally with AI, data, or technical workflows.
• Background in AI data operations, ML ops, or technical services is a strong plus.

This role works well for people who:

• Want to own a critical piece of the Handshake AI delivery engine and be directly accountable for team performance and outcomes.
• Enjoy leading and coaching high performing operators, setting a clear bar, and giving direct feedback.
• Can move between high level systems thinking (process design, staffing, metrics) and detailed execution reviews with SPLs.
• Are comfortable in high intensity environments where priorities shift quickly and customer or lab needs can change week to week.

People in this role often come from:

• Operations or strategy and operations leadership roles at early stage or high growth startups.
• Marketplace, data, or technical services companies where they managed teams and owned delivery metrics.
• Management consulting or investment banking backgrounds that moved into hands on operational leadership.
• Team lead or manager roles in AI data operations or other scaled, process heavy environments.

Perks

• Generous Equity Grant vested over 4 years.
• Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs spread throughout the first year.
• Well Defined Performance Bonus ranging between 10 - 100% of base.
• Medical Insurance Coverage.
• Food credit for every in person day.