Special Projects Lead, Founder's Office

We Love AI Jobs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Brainbase Labs in San Francisco is seeking a Special Projects Lead to work directly with the founder on cross-functional initiatives spanning GTM, product, operations, recruiting, and research. You will scope projects, run end-to-end execution, and hand off outcomes to permanent owners.

This is an early-career generalist role designed to develop breadth quickly. You’ll thrive when you can navigate ambiguity, communicate clearly, and deliver impact across diverse domains.

Qualifications

• Early-career role with broad exposure.
• Ability to scope and drive complex projects from definition to delivery.
• Strong communication and problem-solving across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Scope and run cross-functional projects from initial problem definition through completion.
• Own outcomes across go-to-market, product, operations, recruiting, and research.
• Hand off completed projects to permanent owners once they are established.

Skills

AI agents

Evals

Observability

Routing

Authentication

Permissions

Sandboxes

Agent harnesses

Job description

# Special Projects Lead, Founder's OfficeBrainbase LabsSan Francisco (Hybrid)Full-timeUpload your resume once and Scout applies for youApply with ScoutShare this job:LinkedInXSave imageThe Special Projects Lead works directly with Brainbase’s founder on cross-functional projects spanning go-to-market, product, operations, recruiting, and research. The role is intended for an early-career generalist who can take ambiguous problems from scoping through execution and handoff.* Permanent* Hybrid* Early-career### Skills and expertiseAI agentsEvalsObservabilityRoutingAuthenticationPermissionsSandboxesAgent harnesses### Key responsibilities* Scope and run cross-functional projects from initial problem definition through completion.* Own outcomes across go-to-market, product, operations, recruiting, and research.* Hand off completed projects to permanent owners once they are established.## How this job comparesCompared with 142 open lead operations jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay: This job does not publish its pay. The 62 open lead operations jobs that publish US pay start at $165K a year on average.Similar open jobs: We Love AI Jobs lists 142 open lead operations jobs at 72 companies.Remote work: This job is hybrid. 10 of the 142 lead operations jobs (7%) are remote.AI in this role: Low. The company works with AI, but AI is a small part of this role's daily work. Brainbase builds infrastructure for deploying internal agents, but this role is described as cross-functional project execution rather than hands-on AI development or use.## Full descriptionAbout BrainbaseBrainbase is building the primitives for the next 1B agents.We power internal agents across government, Fortune 500, frontier labs and hyper-growth startups. Enterprises use our configurable primitives such as evals, observability, router, authentication, permissions, sandboxes, harnesses and more to deploy internal agents securely at scale. We support 8+ harness and 50+ models, including sovereign deployments.LaunchesTake a look at some of our previous launches to get an idea of what we’re working on:• Brainbase platform: https://brainbaselabs.com/blog/brainbase-is-now-ga• Universal Managed Agents API: https://brainbaselabs.com/blog/universal-managed-agents• Universal Agent Protocol (UAP) (open-source): universalagentprotocol.ioAbout the roleThe Founder’s Office takes on the problems that don’t yet belong to a function. As Special Projects Lead you’ll work directly with the founder on projects that cut across GTM, product, operations, recruiting and research — scoping them, running them end to end, and handing them off once they have a permanent owner.This is an early-career role and one of the best generalist seats at the company. You won’t specialize. You’ll own outcomes under ambiguous KPIs, get unusual range and exposure in a short amount of time, and figure out what you’re great at by doing a lot of very different things quickly.Who we’re looking forPeople early in their careers who move fast, write clearly, and would rather own an outcome than a job description. A track record of shipping things on your own matters more to us than a specific background.LogisticsBased in San Francisco, with remote and part-time arrangements available for the right person.