Strategic Delivery Lead

Join Snorkel, a leading AI/ML data platform, as a Strategic Delivery Lead. In this highly cross-functional role, you will be accountable for turning a pod's ambition into reliably delivered, high-quality work. You will own the performance of a portfolio spanning samples, off-the-shelf datasets, proprietary data products, and bespoke engagements. You will lead through influence cross-functionally and directly manage a team of strategic project leads. Additionally, you will be responsible for margin performance and operating economics, translating the domain's strategy into an executable roadmap, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and to the highest quality.

• Ownership of a portfolio of projects, ensuring high-quality delivery and performance.
• Leading cross-functional teams, managing a team of strategic project leads, and driving alignment across teams.
• Accountability for margin performance and operating economics, understanding and improving cost-to-deliver and gross margin.

• Ownership of a P&L or a business unit - you have carried a number, made pricing and cost trade-offs, and lived with the result. Consulting-style project leadership without commercial ownership is not the same thing
• Real depth in a technical domain - software engineering, computer use and agents, or an adjacent frontier area. You do not need to be a researcher and you do not need to write the pipeline
• Comfort with ambiguity and with peers who are not your reports. Most of what you need to get done, you will get done through people who do not report to you
• You do need to be someone a research lead wants in the room: able to hold your own on a technical argument, tell whether this domain's data is good or bad, and know who to pull in when it isn't
• Prior people management experience; preference 3+ years
• Seniority. Typically 8+ years with meaningful time at the level described above, though we care about the substance far more than the count
• Commercial judgment with customers. You can run a technical discovery conversation, scope an engagement, and hold a hard margin or timeline conversation without escalating it
• A track record of building rather than administering. Founders, early operators, and people who have stood something up from nothing tend to do well here. We care much more about what you have owned and accomplished than how many people have reported to you
• Bonus: experience in AI/ML data, evals or benchmarks; having built a function or business line inside a fast-scaling company; a founder or early-employee background in a technical product