AI Project Lead

<p><em>We are open to remote candidates</em>&nbsp;<em>based in the Americas time zones.<br></em><br>Zero is a small team inside Metalab. <br><br>We explore new tools, workflows, and ways of building products. We test ideas fast, validate what works, and feed learnings back to the broader org.<br><br>Half the effort is full-time R&amp;D. The half we're hiring for runs client projects to put the research to the test.<br><br>You run projects end-to-end: stakeholders, scope, budget, pace, ship on time. You push for velocity and clarity over process and ceremony. You feed back honestly to the people building the tools.<br><br>If a project works because you were there, that's good. If it works because the system was there and you ran it well, that's the point.<br><br>You're curious, adaptable, and excited that project delivery is changing in real time. <br><br>This isn't a shepherd-the-handoffs role. The agent infrastructure <em>(Concretely: a stack of skills, agents, and feedback loops that triage requests, draft updates, summarize meetings, and handle the coordination work a project lead used to do by hand)</em> is becoming our operating system — and you're the one who improves it.</p> <h2>What You'll Do</h2> <ul> <li>Run client engagements end-to-end across web, mobile, AI-native, and emerging product surfaces</li> <li>Translate ambiguous briefs into structured delivery, working prototypes, and shipped product</li> <li>Collaborate closely with design and engineering leads on the work itself while not being afraid to own the delivery system around it</li> <li>Present work clearly to clients and internal teams, holding the line on scope, budget, and quality with honesty rather than ceremony</li> <li>Use AI tools and agents as a core part of your workflow to triage, draft, prioritize, summarize, and accelerate our Client’s outcomes</li> <li>Build, test and maintain skills, agents, and workflows like code — version them, improve them as the team's taste sharpens, and feed honest learnings back to R&amp;D</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li>Project delivery experience at a digital product agency, studio, or consultancy, ideally in a Senior or Lead role</li> <li>Product delivery experience at a startup, scale-up, or large organization is excellent experience, as well</li> <li>Demonstrated mastery of running a project end-to-end — prioritization, sequencing, scope, dependencies, and the artifacts that keep design and engineering unblocked</li> <li>You don't just use AI — you build with it. Likely in your personal life and hobby time. You've shipped skills, agents, or automated workflows that did real work and ran on their own.</li> <li>A bias toward owning the outcome, not just the plan — carrying product, user, and technical context across the team without letting threads drop</li> <li>Sharp judgment on what to ship next and what to cut, keeping the team focused on solving the right problem at the right time</li> <li>Passionate about staying ahead of how AI is changing product delivery, with a personal point of view on what's working and what isn't</li> <li>Happy working with R&amp;D — taking ideas and prototypes out of experimentation, and folding the findings back into how the broader org delivers</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><h3><strong>Equal opportunity employer</strong></h3> <p><em>Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply for a job when they meet every single criteria. Does this role sound like it was made for you, yet you don’t check every box? Reach out anyways!&nbsp; We’re an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for employees from all walks of life.&nbsp; We hire based on talent, and we’re proud of our global perspective.</em></p></div>