Posted 6 days ago
Strategic Projects Lead (Studio PMO)
@ Mecka
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Overview
Mecka is hiring a Strategic Projects Lead to build and run the project management office for its studio data-collection projects for robotics and embodied AI. The role owns complex projects from scoping to delivery, leads a team of project managers, and reports weekly to the Head of Studio. The posting asks for 5 to 8+ years of technical program or operations leadership, including at least 2 years managing a team.
Pay:
$165,000–$185,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Build the PMO for studio projects with one portfolio view and escalation paths
- Lead the most complex projects from scoping through delivery
- Turn customer requirements into delivery plans and capacity forecasts
- Keep hardware, engineering, operations and partner teams on one plan
- Hire, coach and lead a team of project managers
Requirements summary:
- 5 to 8+ years in technical program management or operations leadership
- At least 2 years managing a team
- Record of leading cross-functional programs to fixed deadlines
- Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into a clear plan
- Hardware, computer vision or robotics data experience preferred
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-31
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-31
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-31
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Project management |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Management experience | 2+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Mecka
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Data Layer for AI Robotics
Full company description
Mecka create large scale human data for AI and robotics training
- LinkedIn followers
- 980
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 38
- Business categories
- Robotics
- Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Other recorded names
- Mecka
- Mecka AI
- Specialties
- Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence
- and Data
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 68,000,000
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Mecka create large scale human data for AI and robotics training
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Data Infrastructure and Analytics |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Specialties | RoboticsArtificial Intelligenceand Data |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 33 |
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About Mecka AI
Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.
We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.
We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.
About the Role
Alongside field capture, we run studio projects: data collections built to a customer's specification, often with new hardware and tight deadlines. Each one depends on hardware, operations, engineering, and partner teams moving to the same plan.
As Strategic Projects Lead, you will build and run project management for our studio projects and own our most complex projects from end to end. You will plan each project from scoping to delivery, lead a team of project managers, and be accountable for every project landing on time and to spec.
What You Will Do
Portfolio: Build the project management office for studio work, with one view of every active project, a regular review cadence, and clear escalation paths.
Project ownership: Lead the most complex projects yourself from scoping through delivery, owning the plan, targets, budget, and risks.
Capacity planning: Turn customer requirements into delivery plans and plan capacity ahead of demand.
Cross-functional delivery: Keep hardware, engineering, operations, and partner teams working to one plan and clear blockers between them.
Team leadership: Hire, coach, and lead a team of project managers, and report status and risks to the Head of Studio every week.
What You Bring
Experience: 5 to 8+ years in technical program management, management consulting, product operations, or operations leadership, including at least 2 years managing a team.
Complex delivery: A record of leading cross-functional programs to fixed deadlines, ideally involving hardware.
Structured thinking: The ability to turn ambiguous requirements into a clear plan and give leadership a clear call on trade-offs.
Even better if you have
Industry: Experience with hardware pilots, computer vision or robotics data collection, or production settings such as film or manufacturing.
Vendors: Experience scaling delivery through external vendors or partners.
If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply — we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.
We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, we will partner with you to meet your needs.
We may use AI-assisted tools to help evaluate applications against the requirements of this role. These tools support our recruiting team in identifying qualified candidates but do not replace human judgment or limit which applications may be reviewed or considered.
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