Strategic Project Lead

Halluminate (YC S25); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services technology firm in San Francisco is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to develop frontier training gyms for finance. The ideal candidate is a former investment banking or private equity analyst with a strong interest in AI and machine learning. Responsibilities include defining the training roadmap, building systems, training staff, and creating materials for AI systems. The role offers a competitive salary ranging from $150k to $250k plus equity.

Qualifications

• Former IB/PE analysts or associates preferred.
• Ability to manage contractors effectively.
• Deep interest in AI/ML fields.
• Exceptional proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize training gym roadmap.
• Build end-to-end systems for revenue production.
• Own delivery and quality for shipped data.
• Recruit and train contractor finance staff.
• Create training materials for AI systems.
• Collaborate with engineering/research teams.

Skills

Organization

Management skills

Ability to learn technical concepts

Core finance workflows

Platform building using coding tools

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Lovable

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Halluminate (YC S25)

Halluminate is an applied AI and data company working with frontier Labs (ex. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) to train Financial Services Super Intelligence. We do this by building high quality computer and tool-use RL (Reinforcement Learning) gyms to train AI agents that do work across financial services verticals. (ex. excel modeling, powerpoint creation and more in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, etc.)

The company recently graduated from YCombinator (S25) and raised a seed round to scale their team and support growth.

Role Description

Halluminate is looking to hire a Strategic Projects Lead (focused in Financial Services) to own and lead the development of frontier training gyms for finance verticals. Ideal candidates include former IB/PE analysts or associates with deep interest/expertise in AI/ML fields.

Responsibilities

• Helpingthe team define and prioritize training gym roadmap based on real world IB/PEexperiences
• Build end to end systems and processes from scratch to support $MMs in revenue production this year
• Own delivery and quality criteria for data/environments shipped to customers
• Recruit and train our contractor finance staff
• Creating"training materials" for AI systems (ex. modeling exercises, powerpoints, etc.)
• Workingwith frontier engineering/research teams to implement and deliver training gyms

Necessary Skills

• Organization and ability to own deadlines
• Management skills to train and lead teams
• Ability to learn deeply technical concepts in machine learning, AI, data, and engineering
• Exceptional ability in core finance workflows across powerpoint and Excel
• Ability to build or learn how to build platforms using coding tools (ex. Claude Code, v0, Cursor, Lovable)

Nice To Have

• Experience working with model training companies
• Experience managing data sourcing
• Experience with early stage startups
• Full-Time In Person in San Francisco

Compensation

• Base: $150 - $250k
• Equity: 0.5 - 1.0%

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Project Management and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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