Strategic Projects Lead
Polymath
San Francisco, CAFull-time$150–250K/yrPosted 7mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Polymath is seeking a Founding Strategic Projects Lead to drive high-leverage initiatives across partnerships, data, and market expansion. The role works closely with the founders on projects critical to company growth, including improving expert-team practices and platforms, scaling the expert contributor network, and leading complex data projects from customer needs and PRDs through coordination and quality assurance.
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Full job description
About Polymath Polymath is an applied research lab focused on advancing long-horizon agent capabilities through reinforcement learning. We design and scale simulation environments where agents learn to operate safely and autonomously. We work with the world’s leading model labs to push the frontier of agent capabilities. We've raised >$8M from Base10, Cervin Ventures, Founders Future, Y Combinator, and other incredible investors & angels.
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:
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Creating best practices for organizing teams of domain experts, and working with the engineering team to improve platforms.
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Scaling Polymath’s expert contributor network, including sourcing, evaluating, onboarding, and managing experts across technical fields.
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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:
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Have prior experience with RL environments and frontier lab data sales
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Have high agency and ownership
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Enjoy working across different domains
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Have strong writing abilities
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Are technical
Perks:
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🪷 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
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🍽 Free meals with the team
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🧘 Free Bay Club membership (right next door to our Embarcadero office!)
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🚞 Commuter benefits
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🏦 401(k)
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🌎 Unlimited PTO
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💻 Top of the line tech
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🌁 Frequent team activities and outings
Culture:
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Polymath is a team of researchers, engineers, and operators passionate about advancing the frontier of safe, superintelligent AI agents.
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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.
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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.
How this job compares
Set against the 9,801 open Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–250K/yr
- California median$124–179K/yr779 salary ranges
- US median$92–138K/yr4,714 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $200K, is 33% above the California median midpoint ($150K) — in the middle half of Operations salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,283 open Operations jobs in California and 9,801 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Education
- 3,239 of the 9,801 open Operations jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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