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DELIVERY & QUALITY

Special Project Lead

We hand you live client work and you own it: the squad, the quality bar, the client, the margin.

BarcelonaFull-time

A project here can run with dozens of experts or with more than a thousand, and it has to scale without the quality moving. Someone has to own that end to end, account by account: who is on the project, whether the work that ships is good, what the client hears, and what it costs. This is a hands-on role. You will read the samples yourself, rewrite the rubric when it stops catching errors, sit in the client call when the news is bad, and take someone off a project when the work is not good enough. You will build the system as you go, because there is no playbook waiting for you. This is the technical seat. The product is AI evaluation data, so you have to understand the substance of it: what a preference label is actually measuring, why a rubric stops discriminating between two good answers, how a benchmark leaks. And you have to build with AI rather than talk about it, the quality systems you design will use models to sample, triage and pre-score at a volume no human reviewer can cover, and you will be the one wiring that up.

What you own

  • Delivery for the accounts you own, end to end: the plan, the squad, the quality, the client relationship, the margin.
  • The quality system: rubrics, sampling, scoring against a written standard, feedback, rework, and the decision about what ships. The data is the product, so this is most of the job.
  • Squad performance once the experts are staffed, including who stays on a project and who comes off it.
  • Client reporting on live work, and the truth about what is hard.
  • Stakeholder management: the client, workforce management, partnerships and research working from one version of the project, and hearing early when something is off.
  • Escalations. They end with you, not above you.
  • Scale. Taking a project from dozens of experts to hundreds or thousands is a structure problem, and you build the structure.
  • The AI leverage in your own delivery. Sampling, triage, first-pass scoring and reporting should be model-assisted wherever a human adds nothing, and you are the person who builds that rather than the person who requests it.
  • Four numbers, posted every week: people staffed against what the client needs, hours delivered, rework rate, margin per hour.

What we need

  • Five or more years of professional experience, with at least three of them running delivery or operational projects end to end, where failure had a real cost and it did not fail. You can walk us through it with numbers.
  • A data background inside those three years: annotation, data operations, research operations, analytics, or delivery of a data product. You know what quality means in data work, and how it degrades at scale.
  • Working fluency with AI, demonstrated rather than claimed. You use models daily in your own work and you can walk us through something you built with them — a scripted evaluation pass, an automated triage or sampling step, a prompt chain that replaced manual review. You are comfortable reading and adapting a Python notebook or a script even if you do not write software for a living.
  • Enough technical substance to hold a line with research. You understand what preference labelling, model evaluation and benchmark design are actually measuring, and you can say why a quality signal has stopped being one.
  • Experience coordinating large distributed groups of people you do not line-manage, or having built the system that let a small team run hundreds.
  • Professional English
  • Based in Barcelona, working hybrid
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OFFICE OF THE CEO

Founder's Associate

Work next to the CEO. It is the fastest way to learn how a company actually gets built.

BarcelonaInternship

ABOUT SOVRANO AI Sovrano AI sells expert capacity. Frontier AI models are no longer limited by compute. They are limited by how much verifiable expert human judgment can be pointed at them, and Europe has the experts without having the companies that put them to work. We are building that layer. Concretely: we recruit and verify domain experts through partner universities across Europe, then put them to work on the data that trains and evaluates frontier models. RLHF preference labelling, expert-written instruction data, multilingual and red-team evaluation, reasoning benchmark authoring, long-form review, and expert-demonstrated robotics data, delivered against client quality rubrics and increasingly against our own. Sovrano works with frontier AI labs, robotics companies and enterprise AI teams across Europe and the United States. They come to Sovrano because they cannot find enough real experts elsewhere, they do not trust crowdsourced labels, and they need consistent quality at volume and in many languages. ABOUT THE ROLE There is no fixed remit, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. You take work off the CEO’s desk, and the work changes week to week. THE PACE, SAID PLAINLY: This is the part people skim. Read it properly, because it is the thing most likely to make this the wrong job for you. The CEO’s schedule is the pace you keep. Long days, late nights when something is due, and weekends when a raise, a deadline or a conference lands on one. Priorities change mid-week. Work you finished at 11pm gets binned the next morning because the answer changed, and you pick up the next thing without a sulk. We are not going to dress that up as balance. The trade is honest and it is specific: four intense months, and you see more of how a company gets built than you would in five years somewhere larger, from the seat where the decisions are actually made. If reading that makes you hesitate, it is a reasonable reaction. It just means this is not your role, and we would rather you worked that out now than in a two.

What you own

  • Go to market: Research on the labs and companies we want to sell to, target lists, call prep, follow-ups, keeping the CRM honest, and writing the proposals and overviews that go out under our name.
  • Fundraising: Investor materials, the data room, diligence answers, the monthly update memo, and running the process so nothing sits for a week without a reply. You are in the room for a lot of these conversations.
  • Financial modeling: The operating plan, raise scenarios, unit economics per program, pricing and margin on statements of work, and the monthly numbers pack. You need to be able to build a model from a blank sheet.
  • Running the company day to day: Board and all-hands prep, the roadmap, hiring pipelines, and whichever internal process is broken that month.
  • Events and conferences: We are at academic and industry conferences across Europe. You help plan them, you come, you work the room, and you own the follow-up.
  • The constant is that almost everything you produce goes to a customer, an investor or a partner, usually within days.
  • This is not a shadowing role and there is no training programme.

What we need

  • Three or more years in investment banking, management consulting, venture capital, or a startup where you ran or supported a fundraise. What matters is that you have worked to an external deadline with a senior audience reading your output.
  • You build models. An operating plan, a scenario, a cap table, unit economics on a service business. From a blank sheet, not by filling in someone else’s template.
  • You communicate well enough that we would put you in front of an investor unedited. Clear writing and clear speaking are most of this job. You will draft things that go out under the CEO’s name and sit in conversations where how you say it changes the answer.
  • You organise. Several threads at once, nothing dropped, and status legible without anyone having to ask you for it.
  • Professional English, and based in Barcelona or moving here. The role is on-site with the team, with travel across Europe
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GROWTH & REVENUE

Head of Partnerships

Find companies building frontier labs, open the conversation, and building the partnerships that follow.

BarcelonaFull-time

Sovrano sells expert capacity into one of the most consequential markets in technology. Demand for verified expert judgment is growing considerably faster than the number of organisations able to supply it at quality, and Sovrano is one of very few in Europe that can. This role owns making sure the companies who need that capacity know where to find it. Much of the work is the search itself. Which labs are training what, and who inside them owns evaluation and data. Which robotics companies have reached the point of needing expert demonstration data. Which European enterprises have deployed AI they now have to prove works, and who inside them carries that obligation. You map that market, you reach the right people, and you open the conversation. The pipeline across all three segments is yours to build, and to build deliberately. The rest of the job is the partnership itself. These are considered, technical conversations with people who decide on substance. They are won by knowing the subject properly, being useful early, and being precise about what Sovrano delivers. Some of them mature over months. You hold them, you keep them moving, and you know exactly which ones are close. You take each opportunity to the point where the commercial conversation is a short one, and you stay close to the account long after it starts, because a first programme with Sovrano is usually the smallest one a client ever runs. This is a senior, hands on role at the centre of how Sovrano grows, working directly with the CEO and with the teams who deliver the work. It suits someone who would rather be the first person through a door than the tenth.

What you own

  • The market map. Who across labs, robotics and enterprise AI should be buying, and why each one now rather than next year.
  • Outreach, by every route that works. Direct, referred, at the conferences this market attends, and through the Sovrano network.
  • EuroExec as the way in. Turning Sovrano's benchmark into meetings, and telling Research what the market wants measured next.
  • Qualification. What an organisation needs, by when, at what scale, and how Sovrano delivers it.
  • The partnerships. Relationships already in flight, taken on and grown, and existing accounts expanded year on year.
  • The pipeline, and the ninety day demand forecast the workforce plan is built on.
  • The commercial stack. CRM, enrichment, outbound, instrumentation, chosen and run by you.

What we need

  • Seven or more years in commercial roles, with at least three where the pipeline was yours to find rather than yours to work, in a technical or bespoke-services sale.
  • Evidence of building. A market, segment or product line that did not exist as a repeatable thing before you and did afterwards. Numbers, not adjectives.
  • Complex, multi-stakeholder partnerships that had to come through procurement, security review and data protection.
  • Real fluency in AI: training, fine-tuning, RLHF, evaluation, data quality. It has to be demonstrable in the first conversation.
  • A career in tech. Someone who already speaks the language of the people Sovrano sells to.
  • Currency in the industry. Genuinely on top of what is happening in AI right now. Come ready to talk about what changed this quarter and why it matters.
  • AI native. You already work with AI tools daily and would build what you need without waiting for anyone to show you. It is how everyone here works.
  • Professional English, used daily with clients. A second European language is a real advantage.
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Talent Ops & Community

Talent Ops & Community Associate

Build the way thousands of European experts find us, join us and stay.

BarcelonaFull-time

Sovrano works because the right experts are ready before the work arrives. Finding them, bringing them in and keeping them close is one job, and right now it is the one with the most room to shape. This role sits right in the middle of it. Part of it is design, and speed. When a new project is announced there is a funnel to build: the call for applicants, the screening, the qualification, the onboarding, and the first piece of work in someone's hands. You design those flows and you get them live quickly. Nothing you build is a one off. Hundreds of people move through these flows today and it will be thousands, so a step that is a small friction for one person is worth removing for everyone. If you are the kind of person who looks at something unstructured and immediately sees the shape of it, this is the part of the job you will enjoy most. The other part is the people. The experts who work with us are professionals who chose to spend their time here. They deserve to hear from someone who knows their name, takes their questions seriously, and tells them early and honestly when plans change. Doing that well is why somebody comes back for a second project and a third, and it is the difference between a list of contacts and a community. It is a real craft, and it is rarer than it sounds. This is a hands on role in a small team. You would be building and running these flows yourself rather than overseeing them, in close daily contact with the person who leads the function. What we need most is judgment: someone who moves without being told what to do next, and who can tell a good version from a bad one without it having to be explained.

What you own

  • Design and launch project funnels fast, as soon as a project is announced
  • Grow sign-up volume into the network, together with marketing
  • Find where people drop off in the journey and close those gaps
  • Run onboarding from application to first task with minimal friction
  • Build out the ATS and surrounding tooling for the scale that's coming
  • Drive retention so people take a second, third and fourth project
  • Own cohort communication: updates, group calls, and honest messages when things change
  • Build the sense of belonging that keeps people around, growing into events and in-person activations
  • Report weekly on applicants in, people placed, drop-off, funnel launch speed, repeat rate, and what the community is asking for

What we need

  • 2+ years of experience working in a fast paced professional environment having ownership of projects
  • Something you built from nothing that other people then used: a process, a programme, a system.
  • Experience communicating with a group, not only with individuals. A cohort, a class, a user base, a
  • community: something where you were the voice a lot of people heard.
  • AI tools already part of how you work.
  • English at C1 level or above.
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Working here

What these jobs have in common.

You own the whole thing

Every role here is something a founder is doing right now and should not be. You get the decisions, the budget, and the first hire under you.

Provable, not plausible

We sell expert judgment people can trust, so we hold our own claims to the same bar. Numbers get checked against where they came from.

Fast, and written down

We move in days rather than quarters, and we write things down so somebody else can pick them up and run them.

European on purpose

Different countries, different languages and local knowledge are the product here, not paperwork we put up with.

Applying

How to apply

Open the role that fits you and apply from its page. We care more about the work than the cover letter, so a CV and a few lines is enough.

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