Strategic Project Lead — Verita AI

Type: Full-time | On-site | San Francisco, CA Compensation: $140,000–$200,000 base + meaningful equity (4-year vest) Hiring count: 3 Visa sponsorship: None available Reports to: Founders (direct line; second-round interview with Ritika)

Verita AI is building a job-matching platform that connects domain experts with high-paying data-training opportunities at the world's leading AI labs — a marketplace for the people powering frontier AI, spanning engineering, creativity, finance, and beyond. The platform uses leaderboards, gamification, and progression systems to make high-quality work rewarding, with a matching engine that routes experts to best-fit projects and talent tooling that measures, ranks, and rewards performance at scale.

Founded: N/A | Team size: N/A | Total funding: $6M seed (led by Kindred Ventures) Industry: AI training data / human data operations Website: verita-ai.com Office: San Francisco, CA

• Direct line to frontier AI labs: Own the primary client relationship with top AI lab customers and manage 7–8 figure contracts per quarter.
• Founder access & ownership: End-to-end ownership of marquee projects with a direct line to the founders.
• Comp + upside: $140K–$200K base, quarterly performance bonuses (5% of base for "exceeds expectations," 10% for "redefines"), and meaningful equity at a recently funded early-stage startup.

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Verita is hiring Strategic Project Leads to own the end-to-end execution of high-stakes AI data projects for top-tier frontier AI lab clients. SPLs are the primary point of contact for leading AI labs — orchestrating complex workflows, managing teams of expert contributors, and ensuring every deliverable meets the highest bar for quality and efficiency. This is an operationally intensive seat balancing client relationships, team coordination, process optimization, and real-time problem solving.

• →Serve as the main point of contact for top AI lab customers, building deep trust and long-term partnerships
• →Translate client objectives into executable project plans
• →Design and manage large-scale data pipelines from client specification through final delivery
• →Recruit, vet, onboard, and manage teams of expert contributors at scale
• →Mentor and develop Strategic Project Associates on your projects
• →Own 2–3 projects concurrently or one marquee project at a time, managing 7–8 figure contracts per quarter

Tech stack: N/A — operational / client-facing role

• 3+ years in human data operations or startup operations
• Complex multi-stakeholder project management
• Direct client-facing experience
• Strong analytical mindset with a bias toward data-driven decision making
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to structure problems from scratch

• Full-time SPL or equivalent at Mercor, Scale AI, or core for 3+ years. The exact archetype the team is hiring for.
• Core candidates who joined post-October 2025 Series C round. Specifically flagged by the founders as high-signal.
• Track record managing 7-8 figure contracts with frontier AI lab clients. Direct adjacency.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring junior team members or managing teams of expert contributors at scale.
• Background in data operations, engineering, CS, or technical field paired with strong client-facing skills.

• Contractor or annotator background. Hard exclude. Recruiters must verify full-time employment status before submitting.
• Adjacent roles only: internal ops, external ops, engagement manager, or generalist project management without SPL-equivalent scope.
• Junior or early-tenure candidates from Mercor or Scale AI. The team's experience is that the bar for senior SPL work is not consistently met by candidates with less than several years of tenure at these companies.
• New grads or candidates with 6 months to 1 year of startup experience. Verita is not skewing young.
• Early-stage company tenure with high job-change frequency. Flagged as flight risk.
• Cannot or will not work 996 schedule in person in SF.

Salary$140,000–$200,000Bonus5% of base quarterly for "exceeds expectations"; 10% of base for "redefines"EquityMeaningful equity, 4-year vestOn-site policy5 days/week in office; 996 schedule; SFVisa sponsorshipNone availableEmployment typeFull-timeLocationSan Francisco, CA

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Stage 1 — Pending Approval — Candidates awaiting initial approval. Stage 2 — First Round Interview Stage 3 — Opt (Second Round Interview with Ritika) Stage 4 — Work Trial Stage 5 — Offer Extended Stage 6 — Candidate Hired — Candidate accepts and starts.

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