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Strategic Project Lead — Demand Side — Client Acq.
Job Location:
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
USD 100000 - 100000
Monthly Salary:
Experience Required:
1-3years
Experience Required:
Posted:
22 October 2026 (2 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
19 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Strategic Project Lead Demand Side
On behalf of our client San Francisco CA (in person) Full-time No sponsorship
The build: Our client is building a talent marketplace that connects exceptional candidates with ambitious companies and the network effects are starting to compound. Theyre hiring a Strategic Project Lead to own and scale the demand side: the companies hiring through them. This isnt a traditional sales role. Youll own the full journey from prospecting startup leaders to onboarding clients driving their success and turning what works into a repeatable growth engine. Work directly with the founders with real freedom to experiment and a clear path to GM.
What youll do
- Own company acquisition end to end prospect identification first conversations onboarding activation.
- Build trusted relationships with founders executives and talent leaders at high-growth startups.
- Deeply understand each companys hiring needs and translate them into successful searches.
- Work across outbound referrals partnerships events and content to generate qualified demand.
- Personally execute the work cold calling outbound sequences events highly personalized outreach.
- Create compelling email and LinkedIn campaigns that consistently start conversations.
- Experiment fast with new messaging channels segments and commercial models.
- Turn winning experiments into measurable repeatable processes the company can scale.
- Partner with talent and product teams on matching quality client experience and marketplace liquidity.
- Track the full demand funnel find bottlenecks and own conversion improvements at every stage.
Requirements
What were looking for
- 12 years in a client-facing commercial consulting operations or growth role.
- Experience in a demanding fast-paced environment venture-backed startup management consulting investment banking or VC.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication.
- Strong relationship instincts; credibility with founders and senior leaders.
- Willingness to pick up the phone and hear "no" without losing momentum.
- Highly analytical experimental approach to growth.
- Comfort across strategy and execution design the GTM motion then send the first hundred messages.
- Ability to create structure from ambiguity and solve unfamiliar problems without hand-holding.
- High ownership urgency and ambition to build from an early stage.
Logistics: San Francisco CA work authorization required no sponsorship.
Required Skills:
Client acquisition outbound sales relationship building cold calling email/LinkedIn campaigns outbound sequencing GTM strategy funnel analytics experimentation client onboarding partnership development event marketing startup founder relationships
Required Education:
Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university is preferred but not required.
