Strategic Project Manager

Why This Role

This is a rare seat for someone who wants real ownership over how a fast-moving, technically ambitious company actually gets built. You'll work directly with a hands-on founder who is simultaneously developing a consumer health tech app, launching a documentary film, and architecting an AI-run organization from the ground up. If you're the kind of person who turns chaos into a system just by walking into the room, and you want to build the operating infrastructure for something this early and this ambitious, this is that seat.

Why This Role Exists

The founder is doing three jobs at once: innovating on a flagship consumer app, directing the creative and launch of a documentary film, and setting the vision for an AI-run company. The bottleneck isn't ideas, it's that too much of the operation lives in one head. This role exists to change that. You are the founder's Strategic Project/Program Manager, the person who helps define the required infrastructure blueprint, keeps the AI infrastructure, the active projects, and the people organized and moving, so the founder can spend their time on the work only they can do: science, product, creative, and vision. You are not a process manager running sprints for an engineering org. You are a force multiplier for one person and a small team of exceptional builders. Do this job well and the founder's output roughly doubles. That's the whole point.

What You'll Own

• Define the integrated framework for the back-end infrastructure that ties all parts of the business together
• Program management: ensure everyone understands the end goal and keep it aligned with the founder, manage priorities to the goals, integrate new understandings and realities into the plan
• Hands-on help when required (you must be both strategic and hands-on)
• Program and project visibility: clear, current status on every active initiative, what's blocked, and what's next, reported on a predictable cadence
• Project documentation, decision logs, and status reporting systems: context, decisions, and progress organized so nothing lives only in someone's head, and so AI agents can actually use it
• Coordination across the team: the AI engineers, the biomedical AI work, the electronics engineer, and external partners, kept aligned through clarity, without you becoming the bottleneck
• Quarterly planning and execution alignment: translate founder direction into a structured project plan with milestones, owners, and deadlines, then track and report against it
• A documentary film as an active project (temporary): coordinate the moving parts of the film and its launch until that work scales into the marketing function

Responsibilities

• Build AI systems that manage the work: surface project status, flag risk, and keep things moving without manual chasing
• Configure AI agents to automate status tracking, risk flagging, and milestone reporting across projects
• Build agentic workflows that take operational load off the founder and the team, built and configured by you, in partnership with the AI engineers

You don't need to out-engineer the AI scientists. But you should be able to build and configure agents yourself and work fluently in tools like Claude Code. Technical enough to build it, strategic enough to see and understand what is needed, organized enough to make the whole thing cohere.

The Team You'll Work With

• A master's level AI/CS engineer building the agentic system, an exceptional technical brain, early in business experience
• A master's level AI/CS engineer building the biomedical AI models
• An electronics engineer building the devices
• The founder, your closest working partner, with direct weekly access

You'll also coordinate closely with company leadership, including a CRO, an incoming Director of Marketing, an Operations Director, and a Controller. You don't manage them, you keep the work between them, the founder, and the build team aligned, visible, and moving. You're the connective tissue, not the chain of command. Your edge isn't engineering depth, it's organization, coordination, and judgment. You turn brilliant individual work and a fast-moving leadership team into one aligned, compounding system.

Who This Role Is For

• You are relentlessly organized, you build order out of chaos by instinct
• You think in systems and information architecture, you make complex things legible
• You are AI-native, you already run your own work on AI, and you can build and configure agents
• You coordinate brilliant people without managing them heavily, alignment through clarity, not control
• You want ownership over how complex, multi-track initiatives actually get delivered
• You move fast, hold a lot in your head, and make everyone around you more effective

Who This Role Is Not For

• You need a defined process to follow rather than one to create
• You treat AI as a tool you've heard of rather than how you actually work
• You want to be the smartest engineer in the room
• You need a large org and firm boundaries to feel comfortable
• You confuse activity with progress

How We Work

• AI first: humans direct and decide, AI does as much of the execution as possible
• Small team, high ownership, direct founder access
• Clarity over bureaucracy: speed over polish, until polish matters
• Build it, organize it, make it compound