Strategic Projects Lead

About the role

As a Founding Strategic Projects Lead, you will work on some of Polymath’s highest-leverage initiatives across partnerships, data, and new market expansion. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who is excited to tackle open-ended problems and help shape the company’s trajectory. You’ll work closely with the founders on strategic efforts that are critical to Polymath’s growth. Examples of projects you would work on:

• Creating best practices for organizing teams of domain experts, and working with the engineering team to improve platforms.
• Scaling Polymath’s expert contributor network, including sourcing, evaluating, onboarding, and managing experts across technical fields.
• Leading complex data projects from zero to one: from scoping customer needs and designing PRDs, to coordinating contributors, and ensuring data quality.

You’ll be a good fit if you

• Have prior experience with RL environments and frontier lab data sales
• Have high agency and ownership
• Enjoy working across different domains
• Have strong writing abilities
• Are technical

Perks

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Free meals with the team
• Free Bay Club membership (right next door to our Embarcadero office!)
• Commuter benefits
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Top of the line tech
• Frequent team activities and outings

Culture

• Polymath is a team of researchers, engineers, and operators passionate about advancing the frontier of safe, superintelligent AI agents.
• We have a flat organizational structure. We believe that people do their best work when they’re self-motivated and driven by a desire to learn, contribute to the team’s goals, and advance scientific progress.
• We’re looking for folks who ship fast, set high standards for themselves, and are great team players. You’ll be a member of our founding team: have fun, learn a lot, and do high-impact work alongside great people.