Director of Strategic Projects

FutureSearch; United States; A distancia; USD 140.000 - 220.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Fully remote

Equity in seed-stage startup

Flexible hours

Travel for in-person meetings

Full benefits

Descripción de la vacante

FutureSearch is seeking a Director of Strategic Projects to identify and run emerging initiatives, owning delivery from discovery to impact. The role emphasizes outcomes over process and requires pragmatic leadership in a small, tight-knit team.

You will collaborate closely with the Chief of Staff and CEO, shaping project opportunities and building strong relationships across the organization, while managing 1–4 week engagements for ventures with seed-stage growth potential.

Formación

• Proven track record leading ambitious projects in a small team.
• Effective at leading an effort without being the manager of people working on that effort.

Responsabilidades

• Identify and run emerging projects, owning their delivery to achieve breakthrough outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with the Chief of Staff and the CEO while building strong relationships across the team.
• Land highly ambitious 1–4 week engagements and drive measurable results.

Conocimientos

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Descripción del empleo

The Director of Strategic Projects at FutureSearch is responsible for identifying and running emerging projects, and owning their delivery to achieve breakthrough outcomes.

In FutureSearch's first 3 years of operations, we faced a highly diverse set of challenges, from working with large grantors and investors, running design partnerships in new business areas, running offsites, publishing research in prestigious journals, giving demos at large conferences, partnering with prominent AI firms, and many more. The Director of Strategic Projects finds and lands highly ambitious projects like these, generally spanning 1-4 weeks. They are comfortable being evaluated primarily on outcomes, and are extremely pragmatic.

The Director of Strategic Projects works very closely with the Chief of Staff and the CEO, and builds strong relationships with every member of the small and growing team.

Requirements

• Proven track record leading ambitious projects in a small team
• Effective at leading an effort without being the manager of people working on that effort

Benefits

FutureSearch is fully remote. We concentrate in London, with SF and Berlin as our next most traveled work locations. We prioritize traveling to meet at minimum 6 times per year, usually in or near London.

As a remote company, we have flexible hours, with required synchronous attendance for critical US - Europe overlap hours (~7-10am PDT).

We are a seed stage startup, and we offer higher-than-average equity for startups of our stage.

We offer full benefits, depending on the country, including healthcare, paternity/maternity leave, equipment, and travel expenses.

Salary range is $140k - $220k for US roles, and adjusted for the local labor market outside the US.