Founding Director - Frontier AI Platforms & Operations

Morpheus Talent Solutions

United States

Remote

USD 250,000 - 300,000

Full time

10 hours ago
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Job summary

Morpheus Talent Solutions is seeking a founding leader for a new frontier AI business in the United States. This role reports to the GM and shapes the operating model from day one, with autonomy and authority backed by a global organisation.

You will own the platform and operations stack, drive the build vs buy decision, and partner with engineering, delivery and commercial teams to scale to $100M revenue in 12–18 months.

Qualifications

  • Direct experience within a frontier AI data business.
  • Clear build vs buy POV with rapid decision making.
  • Understanding frontier tasking vs traditional engineering/data labeling.
  • Multimodal mindset beyond coding tasks.
  • Builder's mentality and drive to innovate.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute a fast, decisive build vs buy strategy across the frontier platform stack.
  • Evaluate labeling, content syndication, indexing capabilities and decide what to build or source.
  • Stand up operational processes for frontier tasking, training and evaluation as a service.
  • Expand the offering beyond coding-centric tasks into multiple modalities and evaluation services.
  • Partner with the global delivery organisation to provide structure to the frontier business.
  • Work closely with the GM on sourcing, planning and prioritisation.
  • Collaborate across engineering, delivery and commercial teams to surface capabilities.

Skills

Frontier AI experience
Build vs buy mindset
Executive presence
Multimodal mindset
Cross-functional leadership
Strategic platform ownership

Job description

Morpheus Talent Solutions is seeking a founding leader for a new frontier AI business in the United States. This role reports to the GM and shapes the operating model from day one, with autonomy and authority backed by a global organisation.

You will own the platform and operations stack, drive the build vs buy decision, and partner with engineering, delivery and commercial teams to scale to $100M revenue in 12–18 months.

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