Principal, Project Development
Own initiative areas end-to-end - from recruiting founders and designing organizations to commissioning products and running fellowships - in service of steering transformative technology toward benefiting humanity.This role reports to FLF's Chief Operating Officer.
We're hiring 2-3+ PDLs simultaneously to significantly expand our execution capacity. This is a moment of growth for FLF, and these roles will shape the next generation of our work.
This would be a good fit for you if you:- Are good at orienting to new spaces, and performing research to understand the status quo, unaddressed needs, and opportunities to engage with existing initiatives
>- Can take a defined, ambitious goal and drive it to completion - scoping the work, lining up resources, and delivering outcomes - resourcefully navigating challenges along the way
>- Would equally enjoy executing on others' plans to achieve these goals as well as figuring out yourself what should happen next with an initiative
>- Enjoy working on both "moonshots" and concrete MVPs
>- Are comfortable sourcing and managing contractors and leveraging tools (including AI) to increase productivity
>- Communicate clearly and work collaboratively within a small team with some defined roles, and some "everyone contributes to everything" spirit
>- Have an entrepreneurial streak - you're comfortable building something from scratch with limited guidance, finding creative paths when the obvious one is blocked
>- Are adept at project management - you can break complex, ambiguous goals into milestones, track dependencies, and keep work on schedule
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Questions you would ask in this role:- What products/tools/technologies might be feasible to build and deploy? Given the relative difficulty of product/tool/tech adoption and the trade-offs regarding the impact we imagined when prioritizing this space, which should we prioritize?
>- How can we get those built?
>- Do we have a clear enough idea of what to build to scope it out and commission the work? Or do we need to explore further first?
>- Which parts of this will the market likely handle regardless of what FLF does?
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Actions you would often be taking:- Deeply internalize the theory of change for your initiative area and use that understanding to inform design choices, trade-offs, and prioritization within your area of focus
>- Sync with other FLF team members to understand our vision, theory of change, goals, and any initial strategy set for your assigned project area - and regularly share and refine your thinking with the team
>- Research and evaluate ideas for orgs, technologies, products, or tools that could deliver on those goals
>- Analyze the market, the feasibility of ideas, and the scope of work required to implement
>- Depending on what products/tools/technologies seem most promising (if any), and how well-scoped the work is, make a plan to build in-house / recruit a team / post an RFP / run a fellowship, etc.
>- Manage contractors, external collaborators, and vendor relationships
>- Write clear briefs and status updates to keep the team informed with reasoning transparency
>- Identify and evaluate potential founders, leaders, or teams to execute on incubated initiatives
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Outcomes you would be responsible for:Exact outcomes are dependent on what we discover as we explore these areas, but could include:
- A conclusion that the area is not currently feasible to make progress on, along with an explanation as to why
>- A fleshed-out spec for a product to address an area you're working on
>- A sketch of the kind of organization we want to create to tackle one of these areas, along with a plan for recruiting and funding the team
>- A founder or team identified, recruited, and supported to lead a new initiative - and execution of the plan for funding, supporting, and advising them
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$140,000 - $200,000 a year
Depending on location and experience (plus full benefits). Compensation above this range may be in scope for more senior or exceptional applicants.
Logistics
* Location: We prefer people with 4+ overlapping work hours with US Central Time.
* Evaluation Process (subject to change):
- Interview work test (30 minutes)
- Interview with one FLF staff member
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Paid contract work trial (5 hours total, split into two components)
- Interview(s) with other members of the FLF team
Miscellaneous
We encourage you to apply even if your background may not seem traditional for this role! We would rather review a larger pool of applications than risk missing out on a promising candidate for the position.
