Strategic Project Lead
20 days ago
San Francisco
Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with leading US-based AI startups. We are hiring for one of the fastest-growing Recruiter marketplace, which scaled to 8-figure ARR in under 12 months and is redefining how companies hire top talent at speed and quality. About the Client Customer adoption is accelerating rapidly, with hundreds of new customers joining every month, and this role sits on the front lines of ensuring those customers become long-term, deeply committed partners—leaving with the conviction that they could not operate without this product. Every engagement starts with a company’s single most critical problem: hiring. Whether it’s building a security-cleared engineering team in under a month, hiring a Head of Growth post–Series A to unlock the next phase of scale, or sourcing highly specialized technical talent for cutting-edge research, you will lead high-stakes strategic projects end-to-end, bringing structure, speed, and execution rigor to problems where the cost of failure is high and outcomes truly matter. Role: Strategic Project Lead Compensation: $145,000 – $260,000 base + Competitive Equity Location: San Francisco, US (Jackson Square) | On-site YOE: 2 - 8 years of experience working closely with customers and having full ownership across relevant areas such as operations, account management, product etc Benefits: Premium healthcare (medical, dental, vision), daily free breakfast/lunch/dinner, unlimited drinks & snacks, beautiful loft office in North Beach (SF), global company offsites (NY, LA, Sydney, Seoul), and a tax-free commuter stipend. Why You Should Consider Joining • One of the fastest-growing startups in the last 12 months, scaling from $1.5M to $40M ARR, • Trusted by category-defining customers including Palantir, Ramp, Rippling, Applied Intuition, Hightouch, Decagon, Traba, and more, • Backed by world-class marketplace investors, including A*, Kevin Hartz (Founder of Eventbrite and first investor in Airbnb), and founders and senior leaders from Uber, Twitch, DoorDash, and Opendoor, • Solving one of the most important, complex, and high-impact problems in business: recruiting, • Entering 2025 with an ambitious GTM and product roadmap designed for category leadership The role is for you if • You enjoy being dropped into ambiguous, high-stakes problems and have the judgment and rigor to figure things out without heavy direction, • You have high learning velocity—you absorb new concepts quickly and apply them immediately, • You’re on a steep growth trajectory, with visible improvement week over week and step-function progress over months, • You operate with an elite work ethic, believing that excellence is earned through sustained intensity and discipline, not shortcuts, • You hold an exceptionally high bar for detail and follow-through, closing loops consistently and refusing to let execution quality slip