Strategic Project Lead (Financial Services)
About the role
We are looking for a Strategic Project Lead with 1-2 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or a related finance role to join a YC-backed startup building reinforcement learning environments that train frontier AI models for financial services. You'll work directly with labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, shaping how the next generation of AI agents learn to do real finance work — and you'll have a massive impact at a 6-person team gearing up for a Series A.
What will you be doing?
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Owning day-to-day delivery and quality of training environments shipped to customers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind), including managing contractors and running experiments
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Acting as a de facto product manager — forming opinions on the product, working with engineers to ship features, and driving the product roadmap alongside the engineering team
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Managing customer relationships: understanding requirements, setting expectations, and ensuring deliverables meet quality standards
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Building operational systems from scratch — creating documentation, quality guardrails, and scalable processes to support rapid project cycles (months, not years)
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Contributing to strategic and financial planning — pricing, revenue modeling, and evaluating project economics
Key Requirements
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1-2 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, or top-tier consulting (MBB) — must be able to deeply explain the work you've done
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Exposure to financial services — comfortable reviewing financial models and client deliverables for reasonableness
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Demonstrated self-starter mentality — entrepreneurial side projects, started a business, or independently built something meaningful
