Manager, Special Projects

The role

The Special Projects Manager will act as a force multiplier for the COO and Chief of Staff. You will solve messy problems, impose structure, and manage various areas including finance, compliance, legal, hiring, and infrastructure.

What you will do

• Operate as a force multiplier with the COO and Chief of Staff
• Size up messy problems and impose structure to reach resolution
• Build 0 to 1 operational architecture
• Track burn, forecast runway, pressure-test EBIT margins, and analyze tradeoffs
• Read, assess risk, and redline contracts including MPAs, DPAs, SOWs, and partnerships
• Evolve policies, controls, and documentation
• Design systems for scaling that add clarity and accountability
• Move fluidly across HR, hiring, finance, compliance, legal, product, and engineering

Required qualifications

• Experience operating in a human data, AI, or SaaS startup
• Technical, finance, or intense operational background
• Extremely concise communication
• Bias toward action and iteration over perfection

Benefits

• Salary: $160K - $200K
• Unlimited PTO policy
• $10,000 signing bonus
• $3,000 bonus for each new hire you originally sourced
• Every lunch and dinner is paid for ($18K annual value)
• 100% premium covered on Blue Shield’s platinum health plan ($0 premium, $0 deductible) and 50% premium coverage for dependents
• 100% coverage for top-tier Guardian dental and vision plans ($15K value)
• Ambitious equity incentives
• 401(k) plan options
• Company-sponsored professional development
• Work visa sponsorship ($15K value)
• Team-wide science reading groups

Before you apply

• Hiring process includes an onsite paid work trial ($1500) for three days

About the company

LatchBio is building AI and data infrastructure to accelerate biopharma R&D. They are 80 engineers and operators in San Francisco solving the data bottleneck in biology.