We’re hiring a Special Projects Lead to build and run scientific programmes that produce high-quality data for AI and robotics. You’ll work across scientific partnerships, programme development and laboratory operations, taking initiatives from an initial brief through launch and ongoing delivery.

This is a hands-on strategy and operations role. You’ll assess opportunities, set operating priorities and work through the practical challenges of getting new programmes running. You should be comfortable shaping a plan, making decisions with incomplete information and doing the work needed to deliver it.

What you will do:

• Develop scientific programmes. Translate commercial and scientific objectives into practical plans, milestones and operating requirements.

• Build and manage partnerships. Develop relationships with scientific organisations, coordinate agreements and onboarding, and manage ongoing performance.

• Launch new initiatives. Establish workflows, coordinate equipment and resources, train teams and resolve readiness gaps.

• Own operating performance. Manage quality, throughput, schedules and cost. Identify bottlenecks and improve how programmes run.

• Coordinate people and resources. Manage partner teams, vendors and logistics across locations. Keep commitments clear and resolve issues directly.

• Make informed operating decisions. Evaluate opportunities, test assumptions and use delivery evidence to decide what to improve, expand or stop.

What you bring:

• Scientific fluency from laboratory experience or sustained work with experimental scientists.

• A track record of launching and running programmes or operations, with responsibility for delivery, quality and cost.

• Experience managing external partnerships and coordinating people, vendors and operational resources.

• Evidence of prioritizing work, evaluating tradeoffs and making sound decisions under uncertainty.

• Willingness and ability to execute directly, including resolving practical problems alongside coordinating others.

Even better if you have:

• Scientific or laboratory operations, research partnerships or technical special projects.

• Founder or early startup experience involving substantial operating responsibility.

• Building and improving operations across multiple sites or international partner teams.