Strategic Project Lead (Demand Side)

Clera

$100K — $120K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1-2+ years in a client-facing, commercial, or growth role.
  • Experience in a fast-paced environment like a startup or consulting firm.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong relationship-building skills and resilience.
  • Analytical and experimental approach to growth.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve problems independently.
  • Proven professional achievements demonstrating impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead client acquisition from outreach to onboarding.
  • Cultivate relationships with founders and executives at startups.
  • Understand client hiring needs and translate them into successful searches.
  • Implement multichannel go-to-market strategies.
  • Create and optimize email and LinkedIn outreach campaigns.
  • Experiment with messaging and channels for growth.
  • Formalize successful experiments into repeatable processes.
  • Collaborate with teams to enhance matching quality and client experience.
  • Monitor the demand funnel and improve conversion rates.

Benefits

  • Work closely with the founding team and influence company direction.
  • Significant freedom to experiment and innovate.
  • Opportunities for broader roles as the company grows.
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a high-ownership, early-stage role at an AI-powered talent marketplace, responsible for scaling the demand side of the business: the companies that hire through the platform. You will work directly alongside the founding team, with significant freedom to experiment and a clear path toward broader general management responsibility as the company grows.
What You'll Do
  • Own company acquisition end to end, from prospecting and outreach through onboarding and activation of new clients.
  • Build trusted relationships with founders, executives, and talent leaders at high-growth startups.
  • Develop a deep understanding of each client's hiring needs and translate them into successful searches on the platform.
  • Execute across multichannel GTM motions including cold calling, outbound sequences, referrals, partnerships, events, and content.
  • Write and optimize email and LinkedIn campaigns that consistently generate qualified conversations.
  • Rapidly experiment with new messaging, channels, customer segments, and commercial models.
  • Turn successful experiments into documented, measurable, and repeatable growth processes.
  • Collaborate with talent and product teams to improve matching quality, client experience, and marketplace liquidity.
  • Track the full demand funnel, identify bottlenecks, and take ownership of improving conversion at every stage.
What We're Looking For
  • 1 to 2 or more years of experience in a client-facing, commercial, consulting, operations, or growth role.
  • Background in a demanding, fast-paced environment such as a venture-backed startup, management consulting, investment banking, or venture capital.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to establish credibility with founders and senior leaders.
  • Strong relationship-building instincts and a willingness to initiate conversations and handle rejection without losing momentum.
  • Highly analytical and experimental approach to growth, comfortable designing a GTM motion and personally executing the first hundred messages.
  • Ability to create structure from ambiguity and solve unfamiliar problems independently.
  • High ownership, urgency, and ambition suited to an early-stage environment.
  • Visible, measurable professional achievements that demonstrate impact.
Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

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