Strategic Project Lead - Finance

Appen is hiring a Strategic Project Lead - Finance for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Appen.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this finance role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions fine tuning, AI evaluation and AI data labeling among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
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AI in this role

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Appen's Strategic Project Management team is central to the company's growth strategy, partnering with leading AI companies and frontier model developers to deliver the data that makes models work. As Strategic Project Lead - Finance, you will run strategic finance pilots and research projects for financial AI model training and evaluation, from initial scoping through to operationalization. This is a hands-on role bridging customer objectives, financial expertise, and Appen's global delivery capability.

Your Impact

You'll own the success of frontier financial AI pilots, turning emerging use cases into validated programs that meet defined standards for financial quality, feasibility, and cost.

You will shape how market data, financial statements, filings, disclosures, and quantitative and risk models are used for model training and evaluation.

This role is responsible for turning a pilot into a scalable project including workflows, expert requirements, and quality standards, developed with researchers and Appen's global delivery teams.

What You Bring

Strong background in finance, financial engineering, economics, or accounting.
2+ years leading complex projects, operational workflows or finance initiatives.
Depth in financial data, markets, accounting, or modeling, and the ability to judge when a dataset is fit for purpose.
Comfort working at pace in a high-intensity environment with an entrepreneurial approach.

Nice to Have

Experience with AI or ML companies, AI labs, or data annotation and evaluation projects.
Experience managing finance-focused, technical, or data-intensive projects.
Familiarity with data pipelines, AI training workflows, model evaluation, or human-in-the-loop operations.

Why You'll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.

You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.

How we rate this

Strategic Project Lead - Finance at Appen rates 68 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Strategic Project Lead - Finance is an open job at Appen.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in Remote US and is marked remote.
The job was posted on September 1, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Appen. Apply on Appen

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Pay

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Questions you could be asked

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How do you decide that one model's output is better than another's for a given task?
How do you keep labeling instructions consistent across a large annotation team?
Walk me through a computer vision problem you solved, from raw data to a deployed model.
What have you built with speech recognition or text-to-speech, and where did it break?

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