Hiring: Special Projects Lead Company: Harper Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 07:38:03 Employment Type: On-site About the job Required Skills: •This role works directly with the CEO on the hardest problems in the business, with a seat in everything substantive: biz ops, growth, strategic projects, investor materials, M&A diligence, and whatever becomes most urgent that week. •There is no fixed scope. That's not a warning — it's the design. •The company is changing fast, and the job is to flex across it and take on whatever matters most right now. Week to week, the work shifts. We just closed our Series A, and the systems built now decide whether we go from tens of millions in premium to hundreds of millions, then billions. What you do here meaningfully moves that line. •The goal is for you to see every part of the business deeply. If you perform the way we think you can, the role evolves into whatever makes sense next — running a function, becoming a true right-hand, or using what you learned to go build your own thing. •Take the CEO's hardest problems. Direct access to everything that matters; scope shifts week to week based on what's most critical. •Build 0→1 systems. Across underwriting operations, customer experience, and risk evaluation — using AI to replace historically manual brokerage work. •Run deep analysis. Customer interactions, underwriting requirements, operational workflows; find patterns, lift conversion, increase throughput. •Bridge engineering, operations, and growth. Turn customer needs and market reality into product requirements and iteration. Qualifications: •Raw analytical horsepower; you think in systems. •A bias toward action — you move toward execution, not away from it. •Energized by complexity rather than rattled by it. •You've worked in high-intensity analytical/operational roles (banking, consulting, PE, high-growth startups) and thrived. •You want exposure to every part of building a company — and you're willing to work for it. •Insurance, fintech, or regulated-industry experience; prior work directly with founders or C-suite; familiarity with AI/automation tooling; prior startup or 0→1 experience. •We'll be direct, because this role attracts people who romanticize "working with the CEO" and underestimate the cost: •The scope never settles. What's urgent today may be irrelevant in two weeks. If you need a defined mandate and a stable roadmap, you will be miserable here. The constant context-switching is the work. •It's banking-analyst intensity, with higher stakes because it's real. Early starts, late finishes, on-site in SF, Mon–Fri (~5 AM–8 PM). •"Access to the CEO" means accountability, not status. You own outcomes on the hardest problems, often with incomplete information. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!