Program Manager, Denver

Ambrook; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation

Wellness stipend

Learning stipend

Job summary

Ambrook seeks a versatile Programs & Operations lead in Denver to drive placemaking, events, design program management, research, and cross-functional projects across offices. You will partner with the founder's team, report to Jeff Anders, and bridge design, Labs, and recruiting while supporting customers and candidates locally and nationally.

You will manage multiple programs, grow your scope across functions, and build trust by keeping work flowing, with an emphasis on hospitality, detail,

Qualifications

• 1 to 8 years in roles like operations, recruiting, hospitality, design operations, or production.
• Hospitable and care about craft, from noticing what a guest needs before they ask to the content of an event invite and the interior design of our space.
• Friction bothers you. You'd rather spend an afternoon improving a system than work around a broken one for months.
• You're good with tools. You can set up a new hire's accounts, fix a conference room, and use AI to save time on recurring work.
• You're well-connected in Denver circles: tech, startups, design, research, and industry. You have stories to show for it.

Responsibilities

• Own placemaking in the Denver office—make it a space teammates enjoy, manage guests, vendors, supplies, and access.
• Partner with Jeff as founder's associate—prepare for meetings, run projects end to end, drive decisions to done.
• Equip the design team—lead design program management and organize a network of specialists.
• Shape how customers and candidates meet Ambrook—recruit customers for research, plan trips around Colorado and beyond.
• Catalyze community with events—plan coffees, dinners, meetups, and company activations across offices.
• Improve tech enablement—coordinate onboarding/offboarding, roll out tools, document processes.
• Create AI systems where processes break—pause and rebuild to reduce recurring friction.

Skills

Operations

Recruiting

Hospitality

Design operations

Production

Tools

AI tools

Onboarding tools

Job description

Ambrook helps American family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient. From volatile markets to climate shifts, independent operators face mounting pressure. While sustainable investments often yield the best long-term returns, they require financial clarity and capital that fragmented legacy systems can't provide.

We are rebuilding the financial infrastructure that real economy operators rely on. By replacing paperwork with modern tools for accounting, banking, and spending, Ambrook gives owners the data they need to prove viability to lenders and the next generation. We empower the stewards of land and labor to make confident investments in their future.

We're a Series B startup backed by Lachy Groom, Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Cameron Ventures, and leaders at Notion, Gusto, and Vercel. We're looking for team members to help us untangle the intersection of American industry, climate, and the economy.

The role

You'll run programs across Ambrook: placemaking, events, tech enablement, design program management, research, and special projects. You'll spot what the team needs, build systems that work across functions, and run the creative projects that make teammates and customers feel taken care of.

You'll lead placemaking for our Denver office. You'll report to our co-founder Jeff Anders and drive programs across design, Labs, and recruiting. Some of your projects will span all three offices and our distributed team.

You'll run several programs at once, and that range is a big part of the appeal. You'll see how every part of a company works, find the work you enjoy most, and lean into it. Your scope grows across functions as you build trust by keeping things moving.

You'll have an amazing counterpart in New York, Crystal Luo, who runs programs for that office today, and an incoming counterpart in San Francisco.

What you'll do

Craft shows up across this role: a personal touch on a candidate's onsite, the first batch of Ambrook sweaters, scouting our next office, or visiting customers to bring that same care to the people who run the real economy.

• Own placemaking in the Denver office. Make it a place teammates enjoy working from and where Denver's builders and designers can meet us. Run the small rituals that help teammates know each other, and handle the guests, vendors, supplies, equipment, and access behind it.

• Partner with Jeff as founder's associate. Pick up whatever matters most that month and see it through: prepare for key meetings and hires, run special projects end to end, and drive decisions to done. You'll get a bird's-eye view of how a company runs and grows.

• Equip the design team. Lead design program management: collect critique agendas, gather materials for product reviews, find opportunities to evangelize vision. Study and provision the onslaught of new design and AI tools to try, and maintain our media libraries and press kits. Work with creative director Ali Aas to organize a network of specialists (printers, illustrators, photographers, and other contractors).

• Shape how customers and candidates meet Ambrook. Recruit customers for research sessions and product pilots, and plan and join trips to see them around Colorado, from the foothills to the Western Slope and the Eastern Plains, plus visits across the country. Run local candidate onsites and organize portfolio reviews from invite to follow-up.

• Catalyze community with events. Denver's tech community is young and still finding its footing, and we want Ambrook to be one of the places where engineers, designers, and founders meet to share what they're learning. Plan coffees, intimate dinners, and meetups around the metro area, along with company activations across offices, and curate the guests and topics so each one is worth showing up for.

• Improve tech enablement. Work with department managers and the other program managers on how teammates get access to the tools they need, from onboarding and offboarding to rolling out new software and AI tools. Write down what works so it holds up as we grow.

• Create AI systems where things keep breaking. When a process trips people up repeatedly, pause and rebuild it.

About you

• You've spent 1 to 8 years in roles like operations, recruiting, hospitality, design operations, or production.

• You're hospitable and care about craft, from noticing what a guest needs before they ask to the content of an event invite and the interior design of our space.

• Friction bothers you. You'd rather spend an afternoon improving a system than work around a broken one for months.

• You're good with tools. You can set up a new hire's accounts, fix a conference room, and use AI to save time on recurring work.

• You know talented people in key Denver circles: tech, startups, design, research, and industry. You're curious and have great stories to show for it.

Details

• Full-time, based in our Denver office at the Evans School (1115 Acoma St) at least 4 days a week.

• Reports to Jeff Anders, co-founder and Head of Design.

• Health insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave, flexible vacation, and wellness and learning stipends.