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Strategic Projects Lead

Posted about 2 months ago

OfficeSan FranciscoSE120k - 160k USD

Terac: The Expert Network Powering Frontier Research

Terac helps teams reach faster research breakthroughs through our marketplace of verified experts. We are building agents to recruit, verify, and match 10,000s experts with 1000s of opportunities from the world's most innovative organizations.

We work with leading enterprises and are backed by top investors.

About the role:

We're looking for a strategic project lead to partner directly with the CEO to shape and scale the company’s core function: recruiting. You will work with our largest customers to understand and solve their needs.

You're someone who thrives in ambiguity, has exceptional judgment, and can context-switch between strategic planning, tactical execution, and people operations.

You will:

  • Coordinate the delivery of our highest-value projects to customers worth millions of dollars.

  • Work with the CEO to drive important business decisions

  • Oversee and orchestrate the work of 10,000s of experts on our platform

  • Ensure execution under demanding timelines

  • Diagnose bottlenecks, restructure workflows, and implement solutions that improve quality, throughput, and cost-efficiency.

You have/are:

  • Background in consulting, finance, startups, or other operationally intense environments.

  • Strong analytical and communication abilities; proven track record of managing complex projects.

  • Comfortable working directly with high-profile clients.

  • Excited by “gritty” process optimization and large-scale execution.

Misc

  • We operate six days per week.

  • Compensation: Competitive salary, meaningful equity vested over four years, $10K relocation bonus (for moving to the Bay Area), and an additional $5k housing bonus (if you move within 0.5 miles of our office), Health, Dental, Vision insurance, 401(k) with company match

  • Terac culture: Between company hackathons, weekly presentations on the latest advancements, and an AI-first mindset, you'll be working with one of the most innovative teams on the planet.

  • Growth opportunities: You're joining Terac at one of the earliest stages and will have an opportunity to shape and grow with the company as a founding member.

Job details
Workplace
Office
Location
San Francisco
Experience
SE
Salary
120k - 160k USD
per year

Terac is the expert marketplace for research companies: verified, on-demand humans you can source through a dashboard, an API, or an MCP. We aggregate, identity-verify, and continuously vet a panel of domain experts (doctors, engineers, lawyers, operators, parents, hobbyists), then handle recruitment, AI-led screening, scheduling, moderation, and payout on verified completion so research teams, products, and AI agents can source the exact human they need on demand.

Employees
24
Industry
Market Research
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2025
Company location
San Francisco, California 94105, US

Key team members

Harvey Taphorn

Harvey Taphorn

Ithallo K. Garcia

Ithallo K. Garcia

Nereyda Rodríguez

Nereyda Rodríguez

Claire Veiga C.

Claire Veiga C.

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