Manager, Strategic Projects

Own a book of business end-to-end — build deep relationships with founders and executives, run structured intake calls, push back on comp and requirements when the data supports it, and drive hires with urgency and precision.

Be the quality layer — deeply understand each role, translate that into sharp recruiter briefs, and ensure only the strongest candidates reach hiring managers. Your judgment is the bar.

Leverage Paraform’s recruiter marketplace — mobilize recruiters, calibrate them in real time, and hold a high standard for quality and speed.

Drive a vertical — drive marketplace density, deploy incentives strategically, and build toward target hires and revenue within your vertical. Work with partners across the business (e.g., Sales, Supply, Marketing) to unlock growth and efficiencies in your vertical

Coach and develop a team of SPLs — starting with 1–3 direct reports and growing to ~6-8+. Your vertical/team can continue to expand from there as you drive its growth.

Set the standard for delivery excellence — drive execution quality across your team’s engagements through coaching, live calibration, and direct feedback.

Shape how Paraform grows — feed customer insight back across the business and partner with sales, supply, product, and engineering to influence how the platform evolves at scale.

Build toward P&L ownership — as verticals mature, take on increasing commercial responsibility including role targets, hiring goals, incentive deployment across the business and more.

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Shopify, Coinbase, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.