Manager, Special Projects
About The Position
Seeking a ruthlessly efficient, 0-1, adaptable Special Projects Manager to join LatchBio! LatchBio is building AI and data infrastructure to accelerate biopharma R&D. We are 80 engineers and operators in San Francisco solving the data bottleneck in biology. We build ubiquitous software, storage, pipelines, & machine learning for all of biology. We onboarded 50+ new biotech companies in the past 12 months and raised $28M Series A from Lux Capital, Coatue, and General Catalyst. This role operates at the intersection of biology and computation, addressing expanding problems in finance, compliance, legal, hiring, vendors, product development, AI partnerships, infrastructure cost, real estate, and internal systems. Your job is to be a force multiplier with the COO and Chief of Staff, operating as their true body double: sit in ambiguity, size up messy problems, impose structure, and move them to resolution without waiting for permission. You are not here to do discrete tasks. You are here to absorb, think, decide, and solve to conclusion with autonomy.
Requirements
- Quick study: ability to quickly learn how to redline a customer contract, model complex finances, optimize an infrastructure bill, or figure out a plan to hire 60 engineers in 90 days.
- Think in terms of bottlenecks: prioritize based on active or impending company bottlenecks.
- Executive mindset: crush tiny details while maintaining sight of the unified strategy of every team.
- High-agency and independent, with integrity: do not wait for direction, propose, execute, update, and close loops.
- Know when to outsource thinking and when to handle things internally.
- Know your audience.
- Technically literate and able to communicate ideas, plans, and details with engineers, salespeople, scientists, ops people, designers, product people, etc.
- Ability to create something spectacular out of messy context.
- 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.
- Genuinely enjoying this kind of work and bringing your personality to the team.
Responsibilities
- Build the first version of anything, especially things you don’t really know much about.
- Optimize existing fragile systems.
- Track burn, forecast runway, pressure-test EBIT margins, analyze, and create real-time clarity on tradeoffs and bottlenecks.
- Read contracts (MPAs, DPAs, SOWs, partnerships), assess risk, redline, and maintain structured oversight of obligations.
- Evolve policies, controls, and documentation as we grow without slowing velocity.
- Design systems that add clarity and accountability without killing speed, understanding how a 30-person company must operate differently than a 200-person company.
- Move fluidly across HR, hiring, finance, compliance, legal, product, and engineering.
- Connect dots others miss and prevent silos from forming.
- Recalibrate quickly when priorities shift.
Benefits
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
