Physical Intelligence
Strategic Project Lead
San Francisco · Mid
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 112 days ago
AlgorithmsProject ManagementStakeholder ManagementRoboticsResearchLeadershipCommunication
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About the role
- As our research and deployment efforts scale, coordinating people, robots, scenes, evaluation, annotation, and operational capacity becomes increasingly complex.
- This role requires sound judgment, clear communication, and a strong sense of ownership.
- What We Hope You'll Bring This role sits at the intersection of program management, operations leadership, and research enablement.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of assigned research and deployment initiatives from intake through completion.
- Partner with researchers and stakeholders to define scope, success criteria, timelines, and operational requirements.
- Build execution plans that define staffing, robot allocation, dependencies, milestones, and delivery timelines.
- Direct project execution across Research Associates, Production Operations, and partner teams.
- Drive project reviews, stakeholder communication, escalations, and delivery decisions.
- Experience building operational processes and scaling teams.
Nice to have
- Prioritize work and allocate resources across competing projects based on impact, urgency, and available capacity.
- Identify and resolve risks, bottlenecks, staffing gaps, and dependency conflicts before they impact delivery.
- Improve planning, prioritization, and operational systems as the organization scales.
- 2+ years of experience in program management, operations, technical project management, consulting, startup operations, or similar roles.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong track record of translating ambiguous goals into executable plans and successful outcomes.
- Experience balancing competing priorities and making thoughtful resource-allocation decisions.
- Ability to quickly understand technical goals, operational constraints, and execution tradeoffs.
Company info
- Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.
- High-quality data is the fuel for that mission. As our research and deployment efforts scale, coordinating people, robots, scenes, evaluation, annotation, and operational capacity becomes increasingly complex. Strategic Project Leads ensure the most important work is prioritized, resourced, and delivered successfully.
- The Team
- The Strategic Project Lead owns the delivery of a set of high-priority research and deployment projects. They partner with teams across the company to define goals, build practical plans, align resources, manage risks and dependencies, and drive projects through completion.
- Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.
- We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.
- High-quality data is the fuel for that mission.
- Strategic Project Leads ensure the most important work is prioritized, resourced, and delivered successfully.
- The Strategic Project Lead owns the delivery of a set of high-priority research and deployment projects.
- They partner with teams across the company to define goals, build practical plans, align resources, manage risks and dependencies, and drive projects through completion.
- The SPL creates clarity where it is needed, helps teams make informed tradeoffs, and keeps everyone aligned around the desired outcome.
- We're looking for someone who can create clarity from ambiguity, coordinate complex work across teams, and consistently deliver results in fast-moving environments.
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