Handshake
Technology
StrategicProjectsLead,Coding
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“Strategic Projects Lead, Coding at Handshake. Skills: Coding data initiatives, Technical evaluation, Annotation workflows, Data quality. Run coding data initiatives. Coordinate SWE Fellows”
What You'll Achieve.
Multi-million ARR-equivalent program scope; End-to-end delivery of coding-data programs
Industry & Context.
Analytical; Data driven problem solver; First principles approach; Scaling challenges; Operational challenges
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years technical or analytical roles, Technical degree or hands-on coding experience, Coding skills (Python, TypeScript/Node, Java), Practical experience with unit tests, Practical experience with CI, Practical experience with version control, Practical experience with basic infra, Analytical and data driven problem solver, Exceptional communication skills, Exceptional stakeholder management skills, Entrepreneurial, high ownership mindset, High degree of agency, Comfort with ambiguity, Pride in end to end outcomes, Technical enough to reason about systems, Technical enough to reason about data quality, Technical enough to reason about tradeoffs, Technical enough to earn credibility
Nice to Have
Technical background (CS degree or proficiency in SQL/Python for analytics), Experience in AI, ML, or data operations, Experience in workforce management, Experience in data labeling, Experience in model evaluation, Previous experience in high-growth startup, Previous experience in AI-focused company
What You'll Do.
Run coding data initiatives
Coordinate SWE Fellows
Design technical evaluation workflows
Own technical evaluation workflows
Design annotation workflows
Own annotation workflows
Accountable for delivery
Accountable for margins
Accountable for quality
Accountable for customer relationships
Write coding assessments
Validate coding assessments
Build rubric-driven code review processes
Instrument quality signals
Adapt workflows when systems flex
Adapt workflows when people flex
Gather customer feedback
Design technical screens
Run technical screens
Populate SWE Talent Bench
Create audit processes
Ensure code annotations meet quality
Ensure model labels meet quality
Create infrastructure
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Leading AI teams; Platform teams; US-based teams; Technical teams; Customers
Communication Scope
Stakeholder management
Process & Methodology
Program scope, Delivery metrics
Full Job Description
ABOUT HANDSHAKE Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month. Why join Handshake now: - Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel - Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions - Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders - Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue ABOUT HANDSHAKE AI Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale. We are building our India team to help accelerate the development of frontier models. This team is a critical, strategic investment for us - we have grown the team 3x in the past six months to help fuel our next phase of growth. India-based teammates will work hand-in-hand with US-based teams to scope, execute, and deliver critical human data projects to Frontier Labs and other customers. THE ROLE As the Strategic Projects Lead you’ll run multi-week to multi-month coding data initiatives for leading AI and platform teams. You’ll co
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