Strategic Projects Lead (Coding/RLE)

• As a Strategic Projects Lead, Coding/RLE you’ll run multi-week to multi-month coding data initiatives for leading AI and platform teams
• You’ll coordinate hundreds to thousands of highly skilled SWE Fellows, design and own technical evaluation and annotation workflows, and be accountable for delivery, margins, quality and customer relationships
• You’ll write and validate coding assessments, build rubric-driven code review processes, instrument quality signals, and quickly adapt workflows when systems and people need to flex to meet deadlines
• This role bridges ML/product/engineering and operations — hands-on with code, fluent with metrics, and ruthless about data quality
• Multi-million ARR-equivalent program scope and delivery metrics
• End-to-end delivery of coding-data programs: scoping → assessment design → Fellow selection → annotation → QA → customer feedback
• Design and run technical screens (take-homes, unit-test driven tasks, live coding) that populate the SWE Talent Bench
• Create rubrics, audit processes and tooling to ensure code annotations/model labels meet production quality
• Create scripts/infrastructure (Python/TypeScript/SQL) to automate QA, analytics and reporting

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage

• Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.

• LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.

• Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.

• Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.

• Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.

• 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.

• Equity: Our equity program includes grants at hire, refresher grants after two years of tenure, and grants alongside promotions.

• Financial management: Handshake partners to provide free professional financial planning services.

• Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships

• Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires

• Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave

• Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs

• Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter

• Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests

• Strong coding skills (Python, TypeScript/Node, Java or equivalent) and practical experience with unit tests, CI, version control, and basic infra

• A technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or similar and/or hands-on experience with coding (Python, SQL, or similar)

• Fast learner with deep curiosity about AI, able to quickly pick up complex and technical concepts and stay up to date on LLMs and AI trends

• Strong analytical and data driven problem solver, with a first principles approach to scaling and operational challenges

• Entrepreneurial, high ownership mindset, with a high degree of agency, comfort with ambiguity, and pride in end to end outcomes

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, able to work closely with technical teams and customers while juggling multiple high priority projects

• 2+ years of experience in technical or analytical roles such as software engineering, data, analytics, or technical product. We are also open to people who come out of non technical jobs that have a coding background or degree

• You don’t need to be a full-time engineer in this role, but you should be technical enough to reason deeply about systems, data quality, and tradeoffs, and to earn credibility with technical stakeholders