Commercial Operations Leader for AI Training

Lead commercial planning and revenue decision making for a short-term research engagement supporting a frontier AI lab, creating and evaluating high-quality commercial operating scenarios drawn from hands-on experience in ad-supported media. You will translate incomplete financial and sales inputs into clear priorities, owners, deadlines, and executive-ready recommendations.

• Create, review, and evaluate commercial operating scenarios and recovery plans informed by commercial strategy and revenue data.
• Drive annual planning cycles, quarterly business reviews, and cross-functional performance discussions, turning fragmented inputs into decisions and action items.
• Challenge and interrogate revenue forecasts, call out unsupported assumptions, and design turnaround or recovery actions when needed.
• Hold managers and stakeholders accountable where required, influencing without formal authority.
• Prepare clear, concise written and presentation materials for leadership audiences, including executive-level recommendations.
• Participate in the project team cadence, including live team sessions each working day and occasional evening messages, aligned to UK business hours.
• Contribute work that will be used as high-quality training data for frontier AI systems.

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in revenue operations, commercial strategy, sales planning, or business operations.
• Demonstrated experience personally leading annual planning cycles, quarterly business reviews, and cross-functional performance conversations.
• Proven ability to perform revenue forecasting, challenge forecast assumptions, and design commercial recovery or turnaround actions.
• Track record preparing executive-level recommendations and presentations, and operating cadence across finance, sales, and operations.
• Comfortable influencing stakeholders without direct authority and writing clearly for senior leadership.
• Experience at one or more ad-supported media businesses, for example:
  • Digital publishers
  • Podcast or video networks
  • Local media or sports media
  • Creator businesses
  • Ad-supported marketplaces

• Engagement type: full-time, short-term engagement running from 10 August 2026 to 4 September 2026.
• Location: remote work, with the project team operating on a UK business-hours rhythm and daily live team sessions.
• Schedule: daily live collaboration each working day, plus occasional evening messages.
• End-of-engagement provisions: two weeks of garden leave paid at the end of the engagement, with a one month non-compete period running concurrently.
• Successful contributors are more likely to be selected for future projects.

• Employment type: hourly.
• Rate: 150 - 150 hourly.

• Applicants must be based in the United Kingdom and have the right to work in the United Kingdom.
• Vetting process: initial résumé and work history screening, followed by a short interview focused on commercial operations and planning expertise.
• To apply: submit your résumé and work history for screening; if shortlisted, you will be invited to a brief interview that assesses the required commercial planning experience.