Strategic Projects Lead — Hybrid AI Data Pilot Execution

Prolific; Mexico; Hybrid; MXN 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Benefits

Hybrid work

Job summary

Prolific is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to scope, design, and deliver complex human data projects within Managed Services. You will engage with AI companies, researchers, and product teams, shaping pilots from initial conversations to task design and operational execution.

This high-ownership role requires strategic thinking, operational building, and comfort operating in ambiguity. The position offers hybrid work and opportunities to influence data quality and responsible AI development.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in strategy, operations, consulting, product, or customer-facing delivery roles.
• Strong analytical and systems thinking abilities with process design experience.
• Comfortable working with technical stakeholders and learning new tools quickly.
• Ability to translate abstract problems into structured plans with attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and strong project management.
• Thrives in ambiguity, complexity, and building new things from scratch.
• Curious about AI, data quality, and responsible model development.

Responsibilities

• Own project scoping and feasibility: engage with customers, co-create study designs, assess viability, define success criteria.
• Lead project setup: draft protocols, instructions, workflows, and platform configurations.
• Design and operationalize rater pipelines: scalable onboarding, training, QA, and performance tracking.
• Run pilots and iterate: launch tests, evaluate feasibility, cost, quality, and throughput; optimize for scale.
• Ensure delivery excellence: manage timelines and budgets with proactive updates.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: work with Data, Product, and Engineering to automate and improve templates.
• Document learnings: create playbooks and standardized workflows to reduce setup friction.

Skills

Strategy & operations

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Technical literacy

Communication

Tools

SQL

Python

Notion

Zapier

Asana

Miro

Job description

Prolific is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to scope, design, and deliver complex human data projects within Managed Services. You will engage with AI companies, researchers, and product teams, shaping pilots from initial conversations to task design and operational execution.

This high-ownership role requires strategic thinking, operational building, and comfort operating in ambiguity. The position offers hybrid work and opportunities to influence data quality and responsible AI development.