Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Strategic Project Lead with finance expertise to drive high-impact projects for AI Lab clients. The role owns finance-specific data pipelines, manages teams and stakeholder relationships, optimizes workflow KPIs, and provides executive-level project and operational updates.
Responsibilities
- Own projects end to end, ensuring top AI Lab clients are extremely happy
- Own and manage complex, finance-specific data pipelines, improving efficiency, accuracy, and scalability
- Manage teams of Human Data Managers and Leads reviewing the work of subject-matter experts in Finance
- Communicate directly with top AI Labs on massive, high-impact projects
- Work with Human Data Engineers to define, track, and optimize KPIs across finance-driven workflows
- Provide executive-level insights and updates on key projects, data performance, and operational impact
Skills
- Exceptional soft skills and stakeholder management ability, especially when working with senior finance domain experts
- Willingness to grind long hours, including weekends, in a fast-moving startup environment
- Strong startup and entrepreneurial mindset
- Background in Finance, Financial Engineering, Economics, Accounting, or a related field, or strong exposure to financial systems and data
- In a leadership role driving operational processes, managing large-scale or finance-heavy data projects, or optimizing complex workflows
- Passion for building from the ground up, identifying inefficiencies, and executing solutions rapidly in high-stakes environments
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