Strategic Project Lead

Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with a fast-growing, AI company building reinforcement learning environments that train frontier AI models for real-world financial services and knowledge work.

Quick Snapshot

Role: Strategic Project Lead

Location: On-site, Dogpatch, San Francisco (5 days/week)

Focus: AI agents, financial services, product ownership, customer delivery, and strategic operations

What will you be doing?

• Owning day-to-day delivery and quality of training environments shipped to customers (Anthropic, Google DeepMind), including managing contractors and running experiments
• Acting as one of the lead product manager, forming opinions on the product, working with engineers to ship features, and driving the product roadmap in tight partnership with the engineering team
• Managing customer relationships: understanding requirements, setting expectations, and ensuring deliverables meet quality standards
• Building operational systems, creating documentation, quality guardrails, and scalable processes to support rapid project cycles.
• Contributing to strategic and financial planning across pricing, revenue modeling, and evaluating project economics

Why You Should Consider

• High ownership Own day-to-day delivery and quality of AI training environments shipped to customers.
• Product scope Work closely with engineers to shape product direction, ship features, and drive the roadmap.
• Strategic exposure Contribute to pricing, revenue modeling, project economics, and broader financial planning.
• Frontier AI opportunity Work with leading AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI to help shape how next-generation AI agents learn real financial workflows.