Strategic Data & ML Projects Lead

Encord; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Growth opportunities

4 days/week in-person

Flexible PTO

Learning budget

Health/dental/vision

Travel opportunities

Offsites and socials

Job summary

Encord is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to own the data annotation and ML workflows behind our largest client relationships. You’ll work directly with clients, annotation specialists, ML engineers, Account Managers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure the data powering their models is fast, accurate, and scalable.

This is a hands-on, high-visibility role with direct influence on renewals and expansions, requiring ownership of multi-stakeholder projects from scoping through QA and

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of professional experience in strategy consulting, operations, or data roles at leading AI/tech companies.
• Proven ownership of multi-stakeholder workflows end-to-end: scoping, execution, QA, iteration.
• Experience designing/optimizing data operations with quality, consistency, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Own data annotation projects end-to-end, translating AI/ML requirements into clear workflows for annotation teams.
• Design and refine annotation processes, audit results, and build feedback loops to raise data quality.
• Act as trusted advisor to clients, designing production-ready human-annotation workflows.
• Partner with product and engineering to improve AI training data tools and methodology.
• Influence account health and renewal/expansion through workflow design and execution.

Skills

Strategic thinking

PM instincts

Analytical rigor

Technical fluency

Python

SQL

Client management

Multi-stakeholder coordination

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Encord is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to own the data annotation and ML workflows behind our largest client relationships. You’ll work directly with clients, annotation specialists, ML engineers, Account Managers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure the data powering their models is fast, accurate, and scalable.

This is a hands-on, high-visibility role with direct influence on renewals and expansions, requiring ownership of multi-stakeholder projects from scoping through QA and