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Strategic Project Lead

$145k - $260k

Crossing Hurdles

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. This range is provided by Crossing Hurdles. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range $145,000.00/yr – $260,000.00/yr Role Strategic Project Lead Compensation Base:$145,000–$260,000+ Competitive Equity Years of Experience (YOE) 2 – 8 years of experience working closely with customers and having full ownership across relevant areas such as operations, account management, product, etc. Benefits Premium healthcare (medical, dental, vision), daily free breakfast/lunch/dinner, unlimited drinks & snacks, beautiful loft office in North Beach (SF), global company offsites (NY, LA, Sydney, Seoul), and a tax‑free commuter stipend. Responsibilities As part of a rapidly scaling AI‑startup, you will engage frontline customers to ensure they become long‑term partners. Every engagement starts with a company’s single most critical problem: hiring. Whether it’s building a security‑cleared engineering team in under a month, hiring a Head of Growth post‑SeriesA, or sourcing highly specialized technical talent for cutting‑edge research, you will lead high‑stakes strategic projects end‑to‑end, bringing structure, speed, and execution rigor to problems where the cost of failure is high and outcomes truly matter. Why You Should Consider Joining One of the fastest‑growing startups in the last 12 months, scaling from $1.5M to $40M ARR Trusted by category‑defining customers including Palantir, Ramp, Rippling, Applied Intuition, Hightouch, Decagon, Traba, and more Backed by world‑class marketplace investors, including A*, Kevin Hartz (Founder of Eventbrite and first investor in Airbnb), and founders and senior leaders from Uber, Twitch, DoorDash, and Opendoor Solving one of the most important, complex, and high‑impact problems in business: recruiting Entering 2025 with an ambitious GTM and product roadmap designed for category leadership The role is for you if You enjoy being dropped into ambiguous, high‑stakes problems and have the judgment and rigor to figure things out without heavy direction You have high learning velocity— you absorb new concepts quickly and apply them immediately You’re on a steep growth trajectory, with visible improvement week over week and step‑function progress over months You operate with an elite work ethic, believing that excellence is earned through sustained intensity and discipline, not shortcuts You hold an exceptionally high bar for detail and follow‑through, closing loops consistently and refusing to let execution quality slip #J-18808-Ljbffr

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