Founders Office - Delivery Professional

Job highlights

• Problem Solving: Identify blockers and risks early,coordinate with relevant stakeholders to resolve them,and escalate critical issues when required.

Founder s Office - Delivery

About Deccan AI

Deccan AI is a GenAI data company that runs the post-training and production layer for the worlds leading AI labs and enterprises - from expert feedback and RL environments to managed AI workforces and evaluation infrastructure. Backed by A91 Partners, SIG (Susquehanna International Group), and Prosus Ventures, and having grown 10x last year, Deccan works with a majority of the Magnificent 7 and the top frontier labs globally. Its global network of 1 million+ domain experts powers Helix, its hybrid eval suite, and EnterpriseOS, its scaled ops automation platform. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

About the Role

As part of the Founder s Office - Delivery, you ll work closely with our Delivery Leadership to ensure complex projects move from plans to outcomes. You ll operate across teams to bring structure to staffing, project onboarding, timelines, dependencies, and follow-ups. You ll help identify blockers early, drive resolution, and ensure teams stay aligned and execution stays on track. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role with exposure across the organisation. You ll help build the operating rhythm behind successful delivery, improve how teams work together, and contribute to shaping new workstreams as they emerge. Over time, this role can grow into a larger program management, operations, or business leadership role.

What You ll Own

• Staffing & Project Onboarding: Coordinate staffing and project onboarding with project leads; clarify ownership, responsibilities, and resource allocation.
• Execution & Follow-through: Run operational calls, capture key decisions and action items, and drive follow-through until closure.
• Program Tracking: Maintain accurate trackers for capacity, milestones, dependencies, project health, and open issues.
• Problem Solving: Identify blockers and risks early, coordinate with relevant stakeholders to resolve them, and escalate critical issues when required.
• Operational Excellence: Build and improve processes that make delivery more predictable, efficient, and scalable.
• Training & Enablement: Coordinate training, upskilling, and other operational workflows required to keep teams delivery-ready.
• New Workstreams: Work with leadership to brainstorm and shape new workstreams and translate ideas into practical execution plans.
• Cross-functional Coordination: Connect teams and stakeholders across delivery, operations, staffing, and leadership to ensure smooth execution.

Who We re Looking For

• 2-4 years of experience in program management, operations, consulting, Founder s Office, or a startup generalist role.
• Graduate from a Tier 1 institution; STEM, Humanities, or Commerce backgrounds are all welcome. MBA is optional, with IIMs, ISB, and XLRI among preferred institutions.
• Technically fluent: Comfortable writing a quick SQL query or lightweight script, analysing data, working with spreadsheets, and picking up unfamiliar tools quickly. Engineering or ML expertise is not required.
• Strong problem-solving and judgment, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and turn them into clear actions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to drive execution and follow-through without formal authority.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where priorities can change quickly and ownership matters.

Strong Bonus

Experience in human data, AI training data, model evaluations, annotation operations, or data operations, along with a good understanding of the AI data industry, will be a strong advantage.

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