Strategic Project Lead

Role Summary

Base: $150–225k · Equity: 0.25–0.5% · Location: San Francisco, in-person

Own and lead the development of frontier training gyms for finance verticals. Ideal for finance analysts or associates with deep interest or expertise in AI/ML.

YOU SHOULD HAVE

• Experience teaching and giving feedback on modeling, decks, or client deliverables.
• A track record of owning end-to-end deliverables for live deals.
• Experience leading large teams and owning deadlines for big projects.
• An ability to learn deeply technical concepts in ML, AI, data, and engineering.
• Comfort using coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to build platforms and speed up processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize the training-gym roadmap based on real-world finance experience.
• Build end-to-end systems and processes from scratch to support $MMs in revenue this year.
• Own delivery and quality criteria for data and environments shipped to customers.
• Recruit and train our contractor finance staff.
• Create training materials for AI systems (modeling exercises, pitch decks, etc.).
• Partner with frontier engineering and research teams to implement and deliver gyms.

Requirements

NICE TO HAVE

• Engineering background (e.g. CS).
• Experience with early-stage startups.

Benefits

• Healthcare — Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you. Subsidized for dependents.
• Relocation — $10k+ relocation stipend to help you get to San Francisco.
• 401(k) — Up to 4% employer match.
• Food — Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.
• Health — Free gym membership.
• Transportation — Free Ubers and Waymo rides to and from the office.
• Visa sponsorship — We sponsor visas, including H-1B.

About the Company

ABOUT HALLUMINATE

Halluminate is an applied AI and data company building computer-use and tool-use RL gyms to train AI agents on real financial services work — Excel modeling, pitch decks, and everything investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds rely on. We work with frontier labs, graduated from Y Combinator (S25), and raised a seed round to scale the team.