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About the Role
Our client is building a talent marketplace and seeks a Strategic Project Lead to own and scale the demand side, focusing on companies hiring through the platform. This role involves managing the entire client journey from prospecting to onboarding and success, with the freedom to experiment and a clear path to a General Manager position. You will work directly with the founders.
Responsibilities
- Own company acquisition end to end, including prospect identification, initial conversations, onboarding, and activation.
- Build trusted relationships with founders, executives, and talent leaders at high-growth startups.
- Deeply understand each company's hiring needs and translate them into successful searches.
- Utilize outbound, referrals, partnerships, events, and content to generate qualified demand.
- Personally execute outreach activities such as cold calling, outbound sequences, and event engagement.
- Create compelling email and LinkedIn campaigns to initiate conversations.
- Experiment with new messaging, channels, segments, and commercial models.
- Develop measurable, repeatable processes from successful experiments for scalability.
- Partner with talent and product teams to enhance matching quality, client experience, and marketplace liquidity.
- Track the demand funnel, identify bottlenecks, and drive conversion improvements.
Requirements
- 1-2+ years in a client-facing, commercial, consulting, operations, or growth role.
- Experience in a demanding, fast-paced environment such as a venture-backed startup, management consulting, investment banking, or VC.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong relationship-building instincts and credibility with founders and senior leaders.
- Willingness to engage in direct outreach and handle rejection.
- Highly analytical and experimental approach to growth.
- Ability to balance strategy and execution, from designing go-to-market motions to direct outreach.
- Capacity to create structure from ambiguity and solve unfamiliar problems independently.
- High sense of ownership, urgency, and ambition for early-stage company building.
- US work authorization required.
Skills
- Prospect identification
- Client onboarding
- Client activation
- Relationship building
- Hiring needs analysis
- Outbound sales
- Referral generation
- Partnership development
- Event management
- Content marketing
- Cold calling
- Outbound sequences
- Personalized outreach
- Email campaign creation
- LinkedIn campaign creation
- Experimentation
- Process development
- Funnel analysis
- Conversion optimization
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
- In person
Experience Level
- 1-2+ years
About the Company
- Our client is building a talent marketplace that connects exceptional candidates with ambitious companies.