Special Project Lead

We’re looking for a Special Projects Lead to join BrightHire. This is a high-stakes role reporting directly to the CEO, where you’ll help tackle the company’s most important opportunities and challenges for stretches of 2 weeks to 6 months at a time.

Your first mission will be to drive growth for a new product, quarterbacking 0-to-1 from the business side: driving growth plays, supporting sales, onboarding new clients, making those customers wildly successful, and ensuring we’re executing on plan to hit our goals.

After that, you’ll tackle projects such as determining how to deliver strategic insights to our clients at scale, supporting major strategic partnerships, applying AI to unlock efficiency in our internal operations, helping to surge recruiting for critical new roles, and more. 

This is a demanding role—it’s not 9-to-5 and we are a fully remote company (though the preference is for a candidate based in the NYC area or easily able to travel there). It requires autonomy, high agency, and excellent judgment. It’s a great fit for someone who thrives under pressure and wants exposure to every part of a business hands-on and in-the-weeds. 

Think of it as a founder-in-training role: after ~24 months, you may evolve into a Chief of Staff, product or BizOps leader, or start your own company.

What You’ll Do

• Lead priority initiatives, owning them end-to-end from definition to measurable impact, delivering with exceptionally high quality and urgency.
  
  
• Drive high-growth for a new product: drive growth plays, support sales, onboard early customers and ensure their success, and build repeatable processes.
  
  
• Create leverage for other teams and leaders in the organization, supporting their priorities with deep analytical rigor, intense drive, positivity, and humbleness.
  
  
• Operate as a trusted extension of the CEO, deeply understanding the business end-to-end, surfacing important context, opportunities, and challenges.
  
  
• Get stuff done. No task is too small (or big). 

About You

You’re entrepreneurial, curious, and driven. You want to be stretched, challenged, and given ownership over problems that matter. You thrive in ambiguity, move quickly, and balance analytical rigor with commercial instincts. You take direct feedback and learn from it fast. You’re equally comfortable (and excited) pitching executives strategic ideas and troubleshooting a customer onboarding. And most of all, you see this role as a launchpad — a chance to prepare for senior leadership or your own venture.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Track record of significant impact: you’ve led projects, initiatives, products, or teams that delivered substantial, measurable results, with many examples.
  
  
• Two critical experiences:
  
  
• You’ve spent time in a high-standards, analytical environment (consulting, investment banking, PE/VC, corporate strategy, or a similarly demanding role).
  
  
• You’ve got experience thriving in a scrappy, entrepreneurial environment (ex-founder, early startup employee, or other clear demonstrations of GSD with limited resources).
  
  
• Analytical rigor: you’re skilled at breaking down complex problems, analyzing data to drive decision-making, and making high-stakes recommendations or judgments.
  
  
• Commercial chops: you’re great with prospects, clients, and partners, with a track record of success selling something (products, partnerships, ideas, raising capital).
  
  
• Hands-on operator: thrive in execution and detail, not just strategy and planning.
  
  
• Intellectually curious: you’re always learning, asking questions, trying things out first-hand, with clear examples of self-learning and picking up new info fast.
  
  
• AI fluency: you’re actively using AI tools and integrating them into your work.
  
  
• Autonomous excellence: you thrive independently in a remote environment because you’re incredibly self-driven, comfortable with ambiguity, disciplined, and high agency.
  
  

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience 
• Prior GM or P&L ownership experience
• Direct exposure to SaaS or AI-driven businesses.
• Experience running operating cadences (OKRs, reviews, reporting).
• Exposure to fundraising or investor relations
• MBA or advanced degree.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Total cash compensation of $170,000 - $200,000 (depending on level of experience)
• Meaningful equity
• Full healthcare coverage (for you and any immediate family)
• Monthly work stipends
• Regular in-person with other key stakeholders (1-2 day focused work) 
• Annual company off-sites (last one was Mexico City)