Strategic Projects Lead

Poke

$100K — $150K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • ~2 years of experience in a top investment bank or consulting firm from a prestigious US university
  • Demonstrated ownership of projects and measurable outcomes
  • Strong problem-solving skills without reliance on escalation
  • Ability to act swiftly and accurately under pressure
  • Strong communication skills across diverse teams

Responsibilities

  • Drive cross-functional initiatives from inception to delivery
  • Ensure team alignment and adherence to deadlines
  • Design and implement repeatable systems and operating procedures
  • Identify potential friction points and address them proactively
  • Facilitate clear communication between technical and non-technical teams
  • Adapt to various company needs beyond assigned responsibilities

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment in a rapidly scaling startup
  • Opportunity to shape operational strategy and processes
  • Direct impact on company growth and efficiency
  • Exposure to diverse functional areas and project types
  • Potential for career advancement and skill development
Full Job Description
The Context

For the last year, our core engineering team has built this entire agent platform from the ground up. Now, usage is scaling by orders of magnitude and the way we operate has to scale alongside it: the workflows, the systems, the processes a company moving at this pace needs. We are looking for someone with experience at a fast-paced, scaling startup to come in and drive that work.

The Role

You take the operational work currently spread across founders and busy operators and turn it into something coherent. You go deep in at least one of these areas:
  • Drive cross-functional initiatives from initial scope through final delivery
  • Keep teams aligned and on schedule, chasing down loose ends when deadlines tighten
  • Design and maintain repeatable systems, playbooks, and operating procedures
  • Spot friction, blind spots, and unrealized leverage before they become obvious
  • Communicate clearly with different teams from engineers to executives
  • Step into whatever the company needs, regardless of whether it falls in your lane


What we're looking for
  • Track record. You have ~2 years at a top investment bank (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, JPM, top elite boutique) or top consulting firm (McKinsey, Bain, BCG) out of a top US university (Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Columbia, Wharton, etc.), ideally (not required) followed by time at an early-stage startup. You can name the projects you owned and the outcomes they produced.
  • Bias to action. You ship outcomes, not memos. You do not escalate problems, you solve them.
  • Low ego. The talent bar is high, but no important problem is beneath us.
  • Speed and precision. You move fast without dropping details.


Something Else

Send us the project you are most proud of running end to end. What did you start with, what did you build, and what did it produce? If you have ever been a founder, tell us what you learned the hard way.

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