Ops and project work is judgement about getting things done. AI systems need managers who can review how a model reasons about plans, risks and delivery.
This isn’t advisory work and it isn’t labelling. You’re reviewing real operations work and explaining your judgement clearly enough that an AI can learn from it — paid for your expertise, by the hour.
Applied Clinical Judgement connects qualified people to vetted platforms, and Sean Key personally vouches for those he refers. We’re paid a referral fee by the platform on a successful placement — never by you. The roles below are live today.
24 live Project & Operations Management roles · updated daily
Process improvement / SOPs Evaluator
Mercor is seeking Process Improvement and SOPs evaluators at $80–$120 per hour to assess AI-generated business documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for accuracy and quality. The role suits professionals with 5+ years' experience in process improvement or standard operating procedures who possess native-level English and strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. You will apply domain expertise to grade outputs against rubrics and deliver structured written feedback on factual, aesthetic, and presentation quality.
BI dashboards / performance reporting Evaluator
Mercor is recruiting BI dashboards and performance reporting evaluators at $80–$120 per hour. You'll assess AI-generated work products including documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for accuracy and quality. The role suits professionals with 5+ years' relevant expertise who can provide structured feedback against domain-specific criteria. Remote, hourly contract work.
Operations / inventory / capacity planning Evaluator
Mercor seeks operations, inventory and capacity planning evaluators at $80–$120 per hour to assess AI-generated work products for accuracy and domain quality. You will review documents, spreadsheets and presentations against specialist rubrics, identifying factual and presentation errors and providing structured feedback. Requires 5+ years' relevant professional experience and fluency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
Program management / implementation planning Evaluator
Mercor is recruiting Program Management and Implementation Planning Evaluators at $80–$120 per hour. You'll assess AI-generated documents, spreadsheets and presentations for accuracy, rigour and quality, applying structured feedback against domain rubrics. Requires 5+ years relevant professional experience, native or professional English fluency, and strong proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, particularly presentation software.
Product management / roadmap / PRD Evaluator
Mercor is recruiting experienced product managers to evaluate AI-generated work across documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You'll assess outputs for accuracy, rigour and quality using domain expertise, identifying errors and providing structured feedback. The role requires 5+ years in product management, fluency in English, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Paid $80–$120 hourly.
Product launch / experiment readiness Evaluator
Mercor seeks experienced evaluators at $80–120 per hour to assess AI-generated work products including documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. You will apply five or more years of product launch and experiment readiness expertise to grade outputs for accuracy, rigour, and quality against domain-specific rubrics. The role suits subject-matter experts with native English fluency and strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, particularly presentation software.
Talent Operations Manager
Talent Operations Manager role at micro1, offering $70,000–$110,000 annually. Full-time, remote position owning onboarding, talent activation, and client success for AI training deployments. Requires elite written communication, proven remote operations experience, and comfort managing 100+ distributed contributors. Preferred: background in human data, RLHF, or AI training pipelines. Data fluency and modern tooling familiarity essential.
Supply Chain Manager
Contractors with 5+ years of supply chain expertise can earn $40–$65/hour training AI systems on wholesale operations and logistics via micro1. The role involves evaluating freight distribution, vendor SLAs, procurement workflows, and contract management, then providing structured feedback to improve AI reasoning. Remote, requiring 10+ hours weekly and strong written and verbal communication.
Retail Operations Manager
$40–$65 per hour. This remote contractor role on micro1 suits experienced retail operations professionals with 5+ years in merchandising, inventory, or e-commerce leadership. You'll provide expert input to train AI systems, analysing demand forecasting, pricing strategy, omnichannel operations, and retail documentation. The work involves collaborating with retail specialists to deliver high-quality insights that shape how AI models learn retail best practices.
Operations Specialist
Micro1 seeks an Operations Specialist at $20–$45 per hour to train AI systems through analysis of real workplace communications. You'll extract decisions, action items, and dependencies from authentic business conversations across email, Slack, and internal files, then synthesise findings into evaluation tasks for advanced AI agents. Strong generalist skills, comfort with ambiguity, and proven ability to organise unstructured information across fast-paced environments required. Prior AI experience unnecessary.
Engineer (All Domains)
Micro1 seeks engineers across all domains for remote contractor work paying $20–45 per hour. You'll analyse authentic workplace communications and internal files to create realistic, multi-step tasks for AI agent evaluation. The role suits those with operations, project management, or startup experience who excel at synthesizing fragmented information, identifying dependencies and blockers, and handling sensitive data confidentially. No prior AI experience required.
Strategic Project Lead, Law (J.D.)
Micro1 seeks a Juris Doctor with 2+ years' leadership experience to lead strategic AI training projects for top-tier clients. You'll manage domain expert teams, oversee legal-focused data pipelines, and report directly to executives. The role demands strong operational acumen, exceptional stakeholder management, and willingness to work intensively in a fast-paced startup. Base salary $180,000–$230,000 USD with equity and performance bonuses.
Strategic Project Lead, MD/Health
$80–$90 per hour. Strategic Project Lead role managing healthcare and medical data pipelines for a US-based AI startup. You'll oversee teams of data managers and subject-matter experts, work directly with top AI Lab clients, and report to senior leadership. Requires 2+ years in operational leadership, strong stakeholder management, and experience with large-scale data projects. MD qualification preferred but not essential.
Strategic Project Lead, Finance
Strategic Project Lead role at micro1 offering $80–90/hr (or $180–230k annual salary). Lead AI model training projects for finance domain experts, managing teams and complex data pipelines for top AI labs. Requires 2+ years in leadership driving operational processes or finance-heavy projects. Suits experienced professionals with finance background and startup appetite, reporting directly to CEO.
Project Management Specialist
$63–$119 per hour. This contract role on micro1 suits experienced project managers across industries willing to shape AI training. You'll translate real-world project scenarios, team dynamics and decision-making into materials that enhance AI model capabilities. Work involves collaborating with development teams, creating training content, evaluating AI outputs, and advising on planning, risk management and stakeholder communication.
Office and Administrative Domains specialist
Micro1 seeks business domain specialists at $20–$40 per hour to train AI systems through document analysis and workflow evaluation. You'll review SOPs, reports, and operational content, extracting insights and identifying gaps. Suitable for contractors with professional business experience, strong writing ability, and proficiency with office tools. No AI background required.
Operations Analyst (Google Workspace)
Contractor role on micro1 paying $63–$119 per hour. Operations Analyst needed to optimise workflows using Google Workspace tools, provide structured feedback for AI training projects, and conduct data audits. Requires 3+ years' operations or process improvement experience and expert-level proficiency across Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Ideal for detail-oriented professionals who thrive independently in remote settings.
Engineering Manager
Turing seeks an experienced engineering manager to lead large technical teams (20+) on LLM training initiatives. You'll oversee supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback projects, managing Python, JavaScript, and Java developers across India and LATAM. Requires 8+ years' software engineering experience including 3+ in management, with hands-on technical capability and strong client collaboration skills. Ten-month contractor role, 20–40 hours weekly with PST overlap.
Project Manager
Turing seeks a Team Lead for a US-based AI research company to manage business analysts improving LLM performance. You'll oversee daily operations, conduct evaluations, and develop high-quality training datasets whilst fostering team development. Requires proven leadership of three or more direct reports, strong analytical skills, and English proficiency. Immediate start preferred.
Virtual Assistant Expert (AI Operations & Executive Support)
Mercor is recruiting Virtual Assistant Experts at $60/hour to support a leading AI research laboratory. The role centres on executive support, operations coordination, and AI evaluation work including calendar management, research synthesis, document organisation, and meeting coordination across distributed teams. Suited to detail-oriented professionals with 2+ years in administrative or operations roles and strong written communication. Remote, fully independent position requiring proficiency with standard workplace tools.
Strategic Project Lead
Full-time remote leadership role on micro1 paying $80–$90 per hour. Strategic Projects Lead will manage domain expert teams and oversee large-scale data pipelines for top AI labs, reporting to CEO and Head of Human Data. Requires 2+ years leading operational processes, strong technical grounding in data engineering or computer science, and willingness to work extended hours including weekends. Suit those with startup mentality and soft skills who can drive end-to-end projects.
Business Operations & Analytics Specialist
Contractor role paying $50–60 per hour via micro1. You'll analyse operational data, build dashboards and KPI reports, document processes, and create presentation materials to support business optimisation. The work involves translating data into actionable recommendations for diverse stakeholders and contributing structured feedback for AI system training. Suits operations managers, business analysts, and strategy professionals with strong BI tool proficiency and visual communication skills.
Logistics & Supply Chain — Visual Document Understanding
Mercor offers $50/hour for logistics and supply chain specialists to evaluate AI model performance on visual document understanding tasks. You'll design complex, grounded evaluation scenarios with clear ground-truth outputs and objective assessment criteria. The role suits domain experts capable of authoring rigorous benchmark datasets. Around 15–20 hours weekly, remote across US and Canada.
Strategic Project Lead (PCB & Embedded Design)
micro1 seeks a Strategic Project Lead for its engineering data infrastructure platform at $80–$90 per hour. This full-time remote role suits experienced electrical/electronics engineers with 2+ years' leadership experience and deep PCB, embedded systems, and power electronics expertise. You will lead technical teams, manage complex data pipelines, and serve as primary contact for top AI labs on high-impact training projects, balancing hands-on technical knowledge with client-facing strategic oversight.
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What the work looks like
Reviewing the model's work
Read what an AI produced in your field and judge whether the reasoning holds — mark where it went wrong.
Setting hard problems
Write the realistic, demanding tasks that separate competent work from confident-but-wrong.
Judging AI answers
Compare two AI outputs and say which is stronger, and why — your written reasoning is what the model learns from.
Common questions
How much does it pay?
Hourly and contractor-based, varying with seniority and role. Every role card shows its pay band. You invoice as an independent contractor and choose your hours.
Can I do this alongside my current job?
Yes — the work is flexible and part-time by design. Check your employer's policy on outside work first; ACJ can't advise on that.
Who is ACJ, and what's your part in this?
Applied Clinical Judgement is run by Sean Key. We connect qualified people to vetted AI-training platforms (Mercor, micro1, Turing), and Sean personally vouches for the people he refers. We're paid a referral fee by the platform on a successful placement — never by you.
How do I get started?
Find a role below that fits, and apply through the link — it carries Sean's referral. If you'd like him to vouch for you or talk it through first, book a short call.
Sean Key vouches for the people he refers
I’m Sean Key, editor of Applied Clinical Judgement. After 29 years in the NHS I help qualified professionals find legitimate, well-paid AI-training work — and I’ll personally vouch for you when you apply.
Applied Clinical Judgement is a referral intermediary, not an employer or recruiter. We refer candidates to third-party platforms (Mercor, micro1, Turing) and may earn a referral fee on a successful placement. We never charge candidates. Pay rates are set by the platforms and may change. PRAG-DEL-SOL-ONE LTD · Co. 07204925 · VAT 987-3626-64 · ICO ZC086000.