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title: 'Strategic Project Lead at Sunset'
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# Strategic Project Lead at Sunset

- **Company:** Sunset
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sunset/5f9f777b-7492-4b09-844c-24fc9db69712

## Job description

## About Replay

At its core, Replay was founded to help founders. We started by supporting startups through shutting down, but we've since expanded into unlocking a new revenue stream for all types of businesses. In 2025, we earned a secret: the data every company generates on a daily basis (collaboration, communication, building) is some of the most valuable training data in the world. Public and synthetic can only get frontier models so far, so the next generation of model progression depends on real, proprietary data grounded in how actual businesses operate. We're a primary source of it, partnering directly with the frontier AI labs building what's next.

Why join Replay now:

- We've scaled from $0 to a multi-eight figures run rate in a matter of months
- We've raised from top-tier investors (Floodgate, Afore, Ludlow, Hustle Fund, etc.)
- We're small enough that you'll carry outsized responsibility and grow as fast as the company does
- You'll partner and build for the fastest and most important companies in the world
- You'll be a part of building a massive, category-defining business from the ground floor

## The Role

Replay is hiring a Strategic Project Lead to own our most important engagements with frontier AI labs, end to end. You'll take a lab's goals for the data they need, turn them into a scoped, high-quality delivery, and run it through to completion, working directly with the lab's researchers on one side and our internal team and partner companies on the other. This is a high-ownership role for someone who is as comfortable in a research conversation as they are in the operational weeds.

## What You'll Do

- Own multi-million-dollar data projects with frontier AI labs — from first scoping conversation through successful delivery
- Be the primary point of contact for lab research and data teams: translate what they're trying to improve in their models into concrete data specs, quality requirements, and timelines
- Build relationships and trust with Replay’s clients - proactively anticipating needs, identifying opportunities for expansion, and ensure world-class execution under demanding timelines
- Work with our partner companies and internal teams to source, structure, and deliver data, and remove blockers as they appear

Required aptitude

- 2-3+ years in a high-pressure, high-ownership environment, such engineering or technical program/account management at a startup
- Track record of owning complex, ambiguous projects with multiple stakeholders and external clients, and delivering on them
- Comfort engaging directly with external stakeholders, including high-profile technical and research counterparts: you're curious about how models are trained and evaluated, and can hold your own in those conversations
- Strong analytical skills: you can structure messy problems, work with data, and build the metrics that tell you if a project is on track
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including with senior external stakeholders
- Gritty, action-oriented, and happy to roll up your sleeves

Bonus

- Experience at or working with a frontier AI lab, or a data/evaluation vendor in the AI space
- Experience in forward-deployed, solutions, or client-facing delivery roles
- Hands-on experience with data pipelines, RL environments, evals, or model post-training
- Previously a founder or early employee at a startup

## Compensation & Benefits

- $175-220K base salary
- Meaningful equity
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision
- Unlimited PTO
- Free gym + workout class memberships (via Wellhub)
- $500 desk allowance
- Up to $15,000 relocation bonus where applicable

## How We Hire

- Intro Chat (20 min): mutual fit and interests
- Technical Screen (1hr): review past work and technical discussion
- Take home: build challenge
- Onsite (~3 hrs): present your project, meet the team, have snacks
- References -> Offer

## About Sunset

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sunset is the first purpose-built platform that handles all legal, tax, and operational work to wind down venture-backed startups cleanly and quickly.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed & Venture funded)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Brendan Mahony (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Startup wind-downs / Dissolution services (legal, tax, and operational)
- **Target Customers**: B2B; founders and investors of venture-backed startups that are shutting down
- **Mission/Purpose**: To give founders the freedom to find what's next by removing the burden of the shutdown process.

## Products & Services
- **End-to-End Wind-Down Platform**: A fully managed service combining a purpose-built software platform with a dedicated team (attorneys, CPAs, Client Success leads) to handle legal, tax, and operational tasks. This includes state withdrawals, asset monetization (selling, auctioning, licensing IP), investor distributions (building waterfalls, collecting banking info, executing capital redistribution), and filing all final federal and state tax returns. [sunsethq.com](https://sunsethq.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: **$7.9M** total funding across two rounds:
    - Pre-Seed (Jan 2024): **$1.5M**
    - Venture Round (May 2025): **$6.4M** [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunsethq)
- **Key Metric (Scale)**: Has helped **over 175+** venture-backed startups shut down; has redistributed **hundreds of millions of dollars** back to investors. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sunset-0), [sunsethq.com](https://sunsethq.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Y Combinator and some of the world’s best entrepreneurs and investors. [sunsethq.com](https://sunsethq.com/about)
- **Growth Signals**: 11 employees with +13.9% YoY headcount growth; active job postings for Data Engineer, ML Engineer, and Client Success Manager. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunsethq)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category-Defining Platform**: Sunset is the first company to build a dedicated, integrated platform (software + expert team) specifically for startup wind-downs, solving a problem that was previously handled ad-hoc by generalist lawyers and accountants.
- **End-to-End, Fully Managed Service**: They handle every aspect of the dissolution—legal, tax, asset monetization, and capital distribution—in one place with one fee, saving founders months of time and significant personal cost.
- **Deep Founder Empathy**: Founded by Brendan Mahony after his own painful, 7-month dissolution experience. This mission-driven origin creates a strong, empathetic culture focused on helping founders during a difficult time. [sunsethq.com](https://sunsethq.com/about)
- **Strong Traction with Top-Tier Clients**: Having served over 175 venture-backed startups and redistributed hundreds of millions to investors, they have built significant credibility and trust in the startup ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Platform**: Investing in engineering (Data Engineer, ML Engineer roles) to further automate and streamline the wind-down process.
- **Deepening Service Offerings**: Continuing to refine the legal, tax, and asset monetization workflows to ensure the fastest, most efficient, and highest-value return for investors.
- **Becoming the Standard**: Establishing Sunset as the default, go-to service for any venture-backed startup facing a shutdown, thereby creating a standard for an industry that previously had none.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Mission**: Employees directly help founders through one of the most difficult moments of their careers, providing closure and allowing them to move on. The work is deeply meaningful and has a tangible, positive impact on people’s lives.
- **Strong Values-Driven Culture**: Core values include "Carry each other," "Be the painkiller," "Make it world-class," "Swing big, learn fast," and "Keep your promises," fostering a supportive, empathetic, and high-performance environment. [sunsethq.com](https://sunsethq.com/careers)
- **Growth Stage Company**: As a small but growing team (11 people), employees have outsized impact and ownership. The company is generating revenue and has raised significant funding, indicating a strong trajectory.
- **Work Environment**: On-site in New York City with an open-door policy, open office floor plan, and an engineering team that utilizes pair programming. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sunset-0)
- **Benefits**: Offers company equity, generous PTO (unlimited policy), paid holidays, and health/vision/dental insurance. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sunset-0)
- **Tech Stack**: Modern and robust, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, Remix, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Azure. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sunset-0)

## Sources
1. [sunsethq.com](https://sunsethq.com/)
2. [sunsethq.com/careers](https://sunsethq.com/careers)
3. [sunsethq.com/about](https://sunsethq.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/sunsethq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunsethq)
5. [builtin.com/company/sunset-0](https://builtin.com/company/sunset-0)

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