Head of Projects
Quick facts
- Pay
- $200K-$300K base salary, plus $50K-$100K performance bonus
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Our client is a fast-growing seed-stage marketplace serving AI data and market-research teams. The company has raised $9M, supports thousands of expert placements each month for more than 25 clients, and has proven product-market fit across human-data projects and traditional market research.
You will report directly to the CEO and own the full project-delivery organization. The mandate is to scale fulfillment from roughly 50 monthly projects to hundreds while growing the team from seven project leads today to 20+ people by the end of 2026.
What you'll do
- Oversee a portfolio of concurrent human-data and market-research projects, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently and deadlines are met.
- Run daily operating cadences with project leads and decide where to hire, reallocate resources, or increase focus.
- Design and improve expert workflows to reduce drop-off and increase fulfillment quality.
- Act as a thought partner to clients on complex scopes, expert calibration, and delivery design.
- Use fulfillment, throughput, drop-off, and resource-allocation data to improve operations.
- Grow client accounts through reliable, high-quality delivery.
- Coach and scale a hands-on team while remaining close to execution.
Requirements
- 4+ years of delivery-operations experience overseeing multiple projects with hard deadlines.
- Experience at a Series A-D or comparable early-stage startup; human-data, AI-data, data-vendor, expert-network, or marketplace experience is especially valuable.
- Experience managing at least two direct reports and scaling a delivery team.
- Strong analytical judgment across fulfillment rates, throughput, drop-off, and resource allocation.
- A coach-player mindset and comfort operating in an intense startup environment.
Benefits
- $200K-$300K base salary, a $50K-$100K performance bonus, and competitive equity.
- Full-time and on-site five days per week in San Francisco's Financial District near Montgomery BART, with occasional Saturday work.
- $10K-$15K in relocation support, including a housing incentive for candidates who move near the office.
- Visa transfers such as OPT and H-1B transfers may be considered.
- Health, dental, vision, and a 401(k) with company match.
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Raydar in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.