Strategic Product Operations Lead

Morpheus Talent Solutions; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Morpheus Talent Solutions in San Francisco is seeking a data-project leader who will own end-to-end data development initiatives, from scoping and research to staffing and delivery. You’ll coordinate between lab researchers, data experts and the internal engineering team to keep projects on track and aligned with margins.

Expect a highly autonomous role requiring strong opinion on quality, ability to influence without authority, and comfort operating in ambiguity across a hybrid/fast-moving

Qualifications

• Own data development projects end to end: scoping, research, staffing, quality routing and delivery.
• Able to influence and align diverse groups (researchers, experts, engineers) toward a shared goal.
• Demonstrate meticulous attention to quality and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Operate as the mini-CEO of a project or vertical in a hybrid operations, product and strategy role.
• Work with frontier lab researchers and internal designers to scope new projects and evals.
• Own the relationship and roadmap with the internal engineering team, shaping tooling and tech builds.
• Own relationships with experts and QA teams, ensuring project health and quality.
• Navigate a changing, ambiguous environment with shifting priorities.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Opinionated about quality

Ambiguity tolerance

Influence without authority

Attention to detail

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

$180k - $250k base

Morpheus are partnered with a well-funded, seed-stage AI startup building the data and infrastructure layer for taste. Backed by top-tier VCs and already working with most of the frontier AI labs, the company is tackling one of the hardest problems left in AI: judgement. Models can now generate almost anything, but knowing what fits, what feels right and what's genuinely great is still unsolved. This team is turning that into something measurable, starting with design.

They work on two fronts: building the post-training data and RL environments that teach taste to frontier models, and creating the context and verification tools that help AI agents produce work that's more creative, more on-brand and more right.

The Opportunity

The whole company is built on the belief that quality in subjective domains is real, measurable and worth investing in, so they hire people who care about craft. You don't need to be a designer, but you do need strong opinions about quality in something, and the ability to back them up.

In this role, you'll be the directly responsible individual for data development projects, owning them end to end: scoping, research, expert staffing, quality routing, partner delivery, scope management and margin.

You'll be the connective tissue between three groups that don't naturally talk to each other: the lab researchers who need the data, the experts producing it and the internal engineering team building the infrastructure. Your job is to make all three feel like they're working on the same thing.

What You'll Do

• Operate as a mini-CEO of a project or vertical in a hybrid operations, product and strategy role


• Work directly with researchers at frontier labs, alongside internal researchers and designers, to scope new projects and evals


• Own the relationship and roadmap with the internal engineering team, shaping what tooling and technology gets built


• Own relationships with experts and QA teams, taking responsibility for quality and project health, with the resources and levers to fix anything that feels off


• Navigate a different day every day, with plenty of ambiguity and shifting priorities

What You'll Bring

• A technical streak: you live in Claude Code, you love understanding frontier AI and you genuinely find research papers interesting


• A talent for turning processes into machines that are efficient, clear, predictable and measurable


• An appetite for ambiguous, difficult problems, without needing a perfect brief to get started


• The ability to influence people and rally them around a shared goal without formal authority


• Meticulous attention to detail and a high bar for quality, for yourself and those around you

Why Join

• Work directly with researchers at the world's leading AI labs


• Real end-to-end ownership, including commercial responsibility for margin


• Join early at a well-funded, fast-moving seed-stage startup


• Help define how AI learns what \"great\" looks like