Strategic Project Lead

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halluminate yc s25Millbrae (CA)

Project Management Specialists Professional and Management Development Training

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$250,000 per year

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About the role

Direct message the job poster from Halluminate (YC S25) Halluminate is an applied AI and data company working with frontier Labs (ex. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) to train Financial Services Super Intelligence. We do this by building high quality computer and tool-use RL (Reinforcement Learning) gyms to train AI agents that do work across financial services verticals. (ex. excel modeling, powerpoint creation and more in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, etc.) The company recently graduated from YCombinator (S25) and raised a seed round to scale their team and support growth.

Role Description: Halluminate is looking to hire a Strategic Projects Lead (focused in Financial Services) to own and lead the development of frontier training gyms for finance verticals. Ideal candidates include former IB/PE analysts or associates with deep interest/expertise in AI/ML fields.

Responsibilities: Helpingthe team define and prioritize training gym roadmap based on real world IB/PEexperiences Build end to end systems and processes from scratch to support $MMs in revenue production this year Own delivery and quality criteria for data/environments shipped to customers Recruit and train our contractor finance staff Creating"training materials" for AI systems (ex. modeling exercises, powerpoints, etc.) Workingwith frontier engineering/research teams to implement and deliver training gyms Necessary SkillsOrganization and ability to own deadlines Management skills to train and lead teams Ability to learn deeply technical concepts in machine learning, AI, data, and engineering Exceptional ability in core finance workflows across powerpoint and Excel Ability to build or learn how to build platforms using coding tools (ex. Claude Code, v0, Cursor, Lovable) Nice To HaveExperience working with model training companies Experience managing data sourcing Experience with early stage startups Full-Time In Person in San Francisco CompensationBase: $150 - $250k

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