Head of Special Projects

Function Health • US - Remote,

2d

About The Position

Function Health is seeking a Head of Special Projects, an AI-first "build" role for someone who wants real ownership and moves fast. This individual will own critical external-facing projects with no clear owner, driving them from scratch through to completion. The role requires a hands-on approach, technical depth, and the ability to navigate ambiguity. Function Health is an AI operating system for health, aiming to help people live 100 healthy years by providing continuous insights into human biology through lab testing, imaging, and AI/clinical guidance. The company has received significant funding and recognition, including being named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024.

Requirements

• You have built real things. Shipped product, written code, founded a company and/or stood up a new business/product line. You can point to things that exist in the world because you made them.
• Technical foundation, expanded. Started in engineering, product, analytics, research, data or any technical role and moved into product, founded a vc backed company, or operating roles where they still own the build. A career centered on strategy, advisory, or internal optimization is not at fit for this role.
• AI-native. You use modern AI tools fluently to build and ship.
• Doer first. You do not delegate the hard parts. You go deep, get your hands dirty, and produce work product others can act on.
• Moves fast under uncertainty. Comfortable without a playbook. Makes good calls with incomplete information and adjusts quickly.
• Writes well. Clear, structured, direct. You can take a complex situation and turn it into something people can act on.
• Mission-driven. Genuinely believes preventive healthcare is one of the most important problems to get right.
• 7+ years with a track record of owning hard, ambiguous problems and driving them to completion.
• Has built something real from scratch. A product, a company, a business line, a technical system. Understands what zero-to-one actually requires.
• Has managed complex, multi-stakeholder projects where they held the thread together.
• Can point to specific things they built and shipped, with real outcomes and real numbers.
• Strong written communication. You can show your work and it holds up.

Responsibilities

• Own external and market-facing projects end to end. From scoping the actual problem to delivering a finished outcome. These initiatives are high-priority and undefined by design.
• Do the work. Research new domains from scratch, structure the problem, produce real outputs: working products, plans, frameworks you then execute. Not summaries of what others should do.
• Build, not just decide. You go deep technically when the project demands it and you ship.
• Write clearly and drive alignment. Turn ambiguous situations into a point of view leadership can act on.
• Make decisions and move. You will not have perfect information. You make the call anyway and adjust.
• Work across functions. Operations, product, clinical, engineering, legal, finance. You go where the project needs you, not where the org chart points.
• Drive multi-million dollar initiatives from concept through execution, accountable for outcomes at every stage.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Stock options
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your family
• Wellness and commuter benefits
• Competitive vacation policy
• A culture that emphasizes learning
• Professional development budget for continued learning
• Opportunity to directly impact our mission of saving lives through early cancer detection
• flexible working hours

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed