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Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies, with a bold vision: to power every human decision in the enterprise. We believe the future belongs to organizations that combine human imagination with intelligent systems—and Fractalites are the ones building that future. As we scale our Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) practice in the United States, we are looking for a senior, client-facing Head of Engineering to shape and deliver world-class Data & AI platforms for leading Technology, Media & Telecom organizations.
This is not a back-office engineering role. This is a consulting-led, client-facing engineering leadership position for someone who is equally comfortable whiteboarding architecture with principal engineers, rolling up their sleeves with delivery teams, and advising CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs in the boardroom.
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Note: This position is not eligible for Immigration Sponsorship at this time.
About the Role
This is a four-axis leadership role requiring technical depth, executive presence, team leadership, and embedded delivery. You'll work directly with top technical and functional leaders at some of the largest TMT companies in the world.
As Head of Engineering for Fractal's Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) vertical, you will personally shape the architecture of mission-critical AIML platforms, often in first-party tech stack, and develop/drive the team of ICs who bring them to life.
Responsibilities
Some engagements will look like a traditional advisory model. Others will look a lot more like Forward Deployed Engineering: your team embedded inside a client's engineering org, working within their first-party tech stack, shipping production code alongside their engineers, and earning influence through technical credibility, not org chart position.
You will need to be in the room when the technology roadmap needs to change. When a business pivot, a new regulation, or a technology shift forces a rethink mid-execution, you are the person who picks up the marker, walks to the whiteboard, and redraws the architecture in real time, credibly, for the CTO, and Principal Engineering leaders simultaneously.
Technical Depth (Hands-On Architecture)
- Own AI/Data platform architecture decisions — from Lakehouse design and real-time streaming to MLOps, LLMOps, and AgentOps pipelines in production
- Serve as the technical authority for Fractal's TMT engineering practice — defining standards, reviewing design, and holding the bar on reliability, scalability, and security
- Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete, buildable platform architectures — and stay close enough to execution to know when something is not working
- Drive the industrialization of GenAI: moving clients from proof-of-concept to enterprise-grade, governed, and observable AI systems
Executive Presence & Live Architectural Thinking
- Command the room with senior client leadership — CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and their direct reports - as a peer, not a vendor
- Whiteboard new architectural directions on the spot: when a business pivot, acquisition, regulatory shift, or technology breakthrough forces a mid-execution rethink, you synthesize it into a credible, buildable path forward live, in the room, without needing a week to prepare a deck
- Translate between two worlds simultaneously: make the architecture legible to a CFO and rigorous enough to satisfy a principal engineer in the same session
- Shape client roadmaps at the strategic level; identifying where the current plan is under-ambitious, over-engineered, or misaligned with emerging AI capabilities, and steering accordingly
- Represent Fractal at the highest level of client relationship
Team Leadership (Building & Driving Senior ICs)
- Develop and lead a high-performing group of individual contributors. principally senior and staff engineers, ML engineers, and data platform engineers
- Create the engineering culture: rigorous delivery standards, architectural thinking, and a bias toward elegant, production-grade solutions over quick fixes
- Build leadership depth within the team, identifying principals who can own programs and grow into broader roles
- Partner across Fractal's global AI and engineering Capability functions to staff programs strategically and raise capability across the TMT practice
Forward-Deployed & Embedded Delivery
- Lead and run FDE-style engagements where your team operates inside the client's engineering environment
- Navigate and deliver within client-owned, first-party technology stacks: proprietary data platforms, internal ML infrastructure, custom orchestration systems, and bespoke toolchains that do not appear in any industry survey
- Adapt quickly to non-standard environments, understanding a client's internal platform deeply enough to extend it, integrate into it, and earn the trust of their engineering staff
- Balance the tension between what Fractal does best and what the client's stack demands, knowing when to bring pattern, when to adapt, and when to advocate for a better path
- Set the standards for how Fractal operates in deeply embedded engagements: how we onboard, document, transfer knowledge, and leave clients stronger than we found them
Candidate Profile
Technical Qualifications
TMT clients bring genuinely hard problems on both open and proprietary infrastructure. Expect to architect and oversee:
- GenAI systems: RAG architectures, LLM fine-tuning pipelines, agentic workflow orchestration, and LLMOps observability
- AI-powered products: personalization engines, churn prediction, content recommendation, and network fault detection
- Client-proprietary ML infrastructure: internal feature stores, custom model serving layers, bespoke experiment tracking systems, and first-party orchestration frameworks
- Cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP with enterprise-grade governance, security, and compliance baked in
- Real-time and event driven data pipelines (e.g. network telemetry)
- Modern Lakehouse platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, Iceberg) at petabyte scale and proprietary data platform equivalents at leading tech-forward TMT organizations
Non-technical Qualifications
We are particularly interested in leaders from environments where engineering rigor, client accountability, executive presence, and AI depth all coexist including Forward Deployed Engineering, elite data/ML platform teams, and senior hyperscaler architecture practices.
- 15–20 years of experience spanning AI/data engineering and technical leadership with clear evidence of owning architecture at scale
- Deep hands-on experience deploying AI/ML/GenAI systems in production, in addition to advising on them
- Demonstrated executive presence: you have walked into a CTO or CDO review, redrawn the architecture based on new constraints, and left the room with alignment
- The ability to whiteboard fluently under pressure, synthesizing a team's in-flight work with a new business direction, making it rigorous enough for engineers and clear enough for executives, on the spot and without a rehearsal
- Experience operating within client-owned or non-standard technology stacks - you have learned a proprietary system, earned trust from skeptical internal engineers, and delivered production-grade results inside someone else's infrastructure
- A track record of leading senior engineers and building high-performance ML/engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and developing principal-level ICs
- Direct executive engagement experience - you have influenced CIO/CTO/CDO decisions and can hold your own in a room with technical and non-technical stakeholders at once
- Strong cloud-native fluency across one or more hyperscalers, with genuine depth in data platform patterns (streaming, batch, Lakehouse, governance)
Strong Preferences
- Experience in TMT vertical — hi-tech, telco, media platforms, streaming infrastructure, ad tech, or content delivery at scale
- Prior work in FDE-style or embedded delivery models where your team shipped inside a client codebase and was evaluated by their engineering standards, not just deliverable milestones
- Comfort with the ambiguity of 1P stack environments: you have debugged undocumented internal tools, extended proprietary frameworks, and figured out how to make external expertise land inside a closed ecosystem
- A personal reputation for architectural clarity: the person colleagues call when a problem needs to be drawn, not just describe
- Contributions to the ML/AI community: open source, publications, conference talks, or influential architectural patterns
Who Thrives Here
The Fractalite mindset is curious, rigorous, and impact driven. You will thrive in this role if you:
- Enjoy being client-facing and accountable for outcomes.
- Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, scale, and complex stakeholder environments.
- Believe great platforms come from strong engineering culture plus disciplined execution.
- See AI not as a novelty, but as a core enterprise capability that must be engineered responsibly.
Fractal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Talent Acquisition Manager – AI Infrastructure & Engineering
San Francisco, California
Hybrid Working
We are expanding our global team and launching a new office in San Francisco.
WNTD is looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to join our Talent Solutions team and support the continued growth of AI infrastructure and accelerated compute platforms across North America.
This role will support one of the most significant AI infrastructure expansion programmes currently underway, focused on building next generation platforms powered by NVIDIA accelerated compute.
You will work closely with senior technical leaders to attract and hire talent across the full infrastructure stack including software engineering, AI platforms, GPU environments and large scale compute infrastructure.
This is a delivery focused role supporting high growth engineering programmes across AI infrastructure and cloud platforms.
The Role
You will lead hiring across multiple engineering disciplines spanning software engineering, AI infrastructure platforms and high performance compute environments.
Working closely with technical leadership and programme stakeholders, you will build pipelines of high quality candidates and manage fast moving hiring plans across several technical workstreams.
Key Responsibilities
• Build and manage talent pipelines across software engineering, AI infrastructure and GPU compute environments
• Proactively source talent across the United States through mapping, referrals and direct outreach
• Screen candidates for technical capability, experience and long term fit
• Partner with engineering leaders to define hiring priorities and role requirements
• Maintain clear tracking of hiring pipelines and delivery progress
• Support wider Talent Solutions activity during peak delivery phases
• Ensure a professional and consistent candidate experience
• Champion fair and inclusive hiring practices
Key Experience
• Proven experience hiring across complex engineering environments
• Strong track record building pipelines across software and infrastructure roles
• Comfortable engaging with technical stakeholders and discussing engineering topics
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong organisation with the ability to manage multiple roles simultaneously
What We Offer
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Opportunity to support one of the fastest growing AI infrastructure build programmes globally
• Growth within a high performing delivery focused team
• Hybrid working model
• A collaborative culture that values ownership, pace and problem solving
Additional Requirements
• Ability to commute to the San Francisco office
• No visa sponsorship available
• Hybrid working model
We are currently seeking a Project Manager to lead and contribute to a diverse portfolio of structural projects. The Project Manager position requires effective leadership and communication skills. Project Managers need to have a varied structural design expertise and comprehension. In addition, have the ability to monitor project progress, and develop project schedules and proposals. You will be involved in production and coordination of several projects concurrently with the responsibility of coordinating and reviewing the details of their projects while developing the engineers and drafting staff. Project Managers are also responsible for building client relationships and networking within the community and bringing in new work for the office.
General Job Duties and Requirements (including but not limited to):
PE (Professional Engineer) Licensed in state of California (minimum)
Create project schedules and communicate deadlines.
Create proposals and budgets.
Verify project budgets and modify as needed.
Participate in monthly invoicing, including worksheet review and invoice preparation for current client’s base.
Manage projects through all phases.
Develop and maintain client relationships.
Attend and participate in weekly manager meetings.
Maintain job scheduling sheets and employee schedules.
Develop and maintain a professional relationships with staff.
Support and/or participate in annual reviews.
Coordinate with field personnel regarding any of your projects that are scheduled for observations/inspections.
Maintain up to date records in job folders (Including but not limited to, design documents, proposal/contracts, extra service documents and relevant correspondence.
Provide structural design for projects.
Involvement with 2 community organizations.
Soft and Personal Skills Required:
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Have Excellent interpersonal and client-service abilities.
Proven leadership and team-building capability.
High level of professionalism and integrity.
Organizational and time-management skills.
Ability to mentor and motivate others with respect and fairness.
Emotional intelligence and sound judgment under pressure.
Commitment to collaboration and maintaining a positive team environment.
Physical Demands:
The position may require the employee to perform the following physical activities:
Sitting or standing for extended periods.
Using a computer for extended periods.
Lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds.
Using manual dexterity to operate office equipment and handle paperwork.
Reasonable accommodation will be provided for individuals with disabilities in accordance with ADA requirements.
Additional Information:
This position is 100% onsite at our office in Rohnert Park, CA. 5 days/week, 8-hour shifts. (Flexible schedules can be accommodated)
Role: Forward Deployment Engineer
Location: Bay Area, CA (Hybrid / Local Candidates Only)
Duration: 6-Month Contract
Position Overview
We are seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to work closely with customers to rapidly diagnose, develop, and deploy technical solutions that address real-time user issues. This role requires a hands-on full-stack engineer who can quickly understand customer workflows, translate business problems into technical solutions, and implement fixes within extremely short turnaround times.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in highly dynamic environments, collaborating directly with end users and product teams to identify problems, architect solutions, and deploy updates rapidly. The role requires a strong ability to leverage modern development approaches, including rapid prototyping and vibe-coding or similar fast iteration techniques, to resolve customer issues within tight timelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to identify and diagnose real-time user issues within deployed systems.
- Translate user needs and operational challenges into technical solutions and rapid fixes.
- Design, develop, and deploy full-stack solutions to resolve customer problems quickly.
- Implement rapid iterations using modern development practices such as vibe-coding, rapid prototyping, and accelerated deployment workflows.
- Deliver production-ready fixes and enhancements within short turnaround windows (often within 12 hours).
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to ensure solutions align with platform architecture and long-term product strategy.
- Monitor deployed solutions, gather feedback from users, and continuously improve system performance and usability.
- Document solutions and contribute improvements back into the core product or platform.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience as a full-stack software engineer with hands-on development experience.
- Ability to quickly diagnose technical issues and design solutions in real time.
- Experience building and deploying applications across both frontend and backend components.
- Comfortable working directly with customers and understanding real-world user workflows and operational challenges.
- Experience with rapid development and deployment methodologies.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in forward deployment engineering, solution engineering, or customer-facing engineering roles.
- Familiarity with modern development stacks and cloud-based architectures.
- Experience with rapid prototyping tools, AI-assisted coding, or accelerated development frameworks.
- Background working in high-growth technology companies or enterprise SaaS environments.
We are looking for our founding Staff Elixir Backend Software Engineer to build Community's technical foundation from the ground up. You'll be employee #1 on Papa Community's engineering team, reporting directly to Papa Community's GM with dotted-line mentorship from Papa core's engineering leadership.
What You'll Do (Responsibilities)
• Build the technical foundation for Papa Community's virtual care platform, designing and implementing systems that connect EHR, care management tools, billing infrastructure, and patient communication platforms.
• Develop secure and scalable integrations between healthcare systems, ensuring reliable data flows and HIPAA-compliant architecture that can support growth to thousands of patients.
• Build data infrastructure and internal tools that enable operational intelligence, automation, and real-time visibility into patient outcomes and care workflows.
• Create systems that support clinical teams with dashboards, automated patient outreach triggers, and clinical decision support tools.
• Lead key technical decisions, including evaluating build-vs-buy tradeoffs, selecting technologies, and architecting solutions that balance speed, reliability, and scalability.
• Partner with Papa Community leadership and Papa's core engineering team to shape the technical roadmap and determine when to leverage third-party tools versus building custom solutions.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices, including code quality standards, testing expectations, deployment processes, and documentation.
• Own platform reliability, monitoring, and performance, ensuring systems supporting healthcare workflows remain stable and resilient.
• Continuously improve system performance, observability, and operational processes to maintain high reliability for patient data, care coordination, and billing workflows.
Minimum Qualifications
• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in Elixir.
• Proven experience building and shipping reliable production systems.
• Experience improving software quality through code reviews, automated testing, controlled rollouts, and monitoring.
• Strong focus on system reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Passion for improving healthcare access and patient outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience working with healthcare technology and industry data standards such as FHIR, HL7, and X12.
• Experience integrating with EHR systems, healthcare vendors, clearinghouses, or billing platforms.
• Experience designing HIPAA-compliant systems that manage protected health information.
• Experience building backend applications using Phoenix LiveView.
Compensation & Benefits:
- Target salary range of $200,000 to $230,000
- Equity
- Medical, dental and vision insurance coverage
- Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 401(k) plan with a match up to 4%
- Flexible PTO & 11 company holidays
- Parental leave and caregiver leave
We're working with a fast growing AI startup in SF that's hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to help identify and build high-impact solutions across the business.
This isn't a typical engineering role.
You'll be embedded directly with teams across sales, operations, and customer experience, spotting inefficiencies and quickly building AI tools, automations, and systems to solve them.
The focus is on impact, not perfection.
What makes it interesting is the environment:
• High ownership and real business impact
• Working across multiple functions, not just engineering
• Rapid build and ship cycles where ideas go live in days
• Constant exposure to the latest AI tools and capabilities
• 14 hour days in a high-intensity environment where you move fast and see results immediately
They're looking for people who:
• Are strong technical generalists (Python, TypeScript, SQL)
• Think in terms of business outcomes, not just code
• Are comfortable building quickly and iterating in real time
• Can communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders
• Want to work at the intersection of AI and real-world operations
SF based, in office
$140K to $200K + bonus + equity
If this sounds interesting, feel free to message me or get in touch.
Eximietas Design is a leading technology consulting and solutions development firm specialising in the VLSI, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, and AI/ML domains. Our success is anchored in the unparalleled expertise of our engineering leadership team, whose collective experience spans renowned tech giants. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, we deliver cutting-edge solutions that empower businesses to thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape.
Location: Bay Area, CA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in computer science or electrical/Electronics Engineering
● Over 10 years of experience in Design Verification
● Strong understanding of design concepts and ASIC verification flow
● Proven experience in IP, Subsystem, and SoC verification
● Hands-on expertise with high-speed protocols and their controllers (PCIe/USB/DDR/ Ethernet/MIPI/UFS)
● Proficient in System Verilog and UVM coding
● Solid understanding of RAL (Register Abstraction Layer)
● Practical experience integrating third-party VIPs
● Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills
● Mandatory exposure to at least one of the following: GLS, UPF, Performance Verification, Meta stability simulation, Boot-up (C–SV/UVM) handshakes and C testcase development
● Demonstrated capability in Subsystem testbench development and SoC-level verification
● Strong knowledge of AMBA protocols including AXI, APB, and AHB
● Hands-on experience with revision control systems such as Git, SVN, or Perforce
● Experience in a team lead role with responsibilities in guiding, mentoring, and ensuring effective collaboration across teams
As a Lead verification engineer candidate will be responsible to work at IP, Subsystem or
SoC verification-related tasks.
Responsibilities:
● Develop testbench components (Driver, Monitor, Scoreboard) from scratch or enhance an existing testbench for a given IP, Subsystem, or SOC.
● Understand design specifications and implementation to define the verification strategy.
● Create testbench micro-architecture, test plan, and coverage plan documents.
● Define the verification scope, develop test plans and tests, and establish the verification infrastructure to ensure design correctness.
● Implement System Verilog assertions and functional coverage.
● Analysed code coverage and address missing scenarios to meet coverage goals.
● Work with other verification team members to develop, execute, and analyse verification test cases and sequences, providing relevant solutions to issues.
● Collaborate with architects, designers, and pre- and post-silicon verification teams to meet deadlines.
● Coordinate with customer leads, ensuring all deliverables and timelines are met.
● Serve as the project's point of contact, responsible for verification signoff.
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We're working with a fast growing AI startup in SF that's hiring a GTM Engineer to help scale revenue through data, analytics, and experimentation.
This isn't a typical analytics role.
You'll sit at the intersection of product, growth, and engineering, building the systems that determine how the company acquires customers, measures performance, and optimizes every part of the funnel.
Your work directly impacts revenue.
What makes it interesting is the environment:
• High ownership across growth and product systems
• Direct exposure to paid channels, product analytics, and revenue data
• Building real infrastructure, not just dashboards
• Heavy use of AI to surface insights and drive decisions
• 14 hour days in a high-intensity environment where you move fast and see immediate impact
They're looking for people who:
• Have strong Python and SQL skills
• Have worked with paid acquisition data (Google, Meta, TikTok)
• Think in experiments and understand causation vs correlation
• Have built or owned metrics, attribution, or LTV/CAC systems
• Want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
SF based, in office
$130K to $190K + bonus + equity
If this sounds interesting, feel free to message me or get in touch.
Our client, a Fortune 500 retail organization with a nationwide distribution network, is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to support large-scale construction and facilities engineering procurement initiatives across their supply chain network.
This role plays a key part in sourcing industrial construction materials, equipment, and services for new facility builds, expansions, and ongoing engineering initiatives. The individual will partner closely with engineering, property development, legal, finance, and operations teams to design sourcing strategies that deliver cost efficiency, risk mitigation, and supplier performance improvements.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in construction procurement, contract negotiation, and cost modeling, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive complex sourcing projects from concept through execution.
Projects You'll Work On
- Leading end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives for industrial construction and facilities engineering categories.
- Developing sourcing strategies for categories such as steel structures, concrete, MEP systems, material handling equipment, racking systems, conveyors, and site services.
- Managing the full sourcing lifecycle including market research, supplier identification, RFP development, bid management, negotiations, and contract execution.
- Conducting construction cost analysis, clean-sheet modeling, and should-cost modeling to identify optimal pricing and savings opportunities.
- Partnering with engineering and development teams to support distribution center construction, expansions, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Managing supplier relationships and performance through KPIs, quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and executive-level supplier meetings.
- Performing spend analysis and market intelligence research to anticipate supply risks and pricing fluctuations.
- Driving cost optimization through value engineering, competitive bidding, and strategic negotiations.
- Supporting facilities engineering teams with sourcing for material handling equipment repair, refurbishment, and replacement.
- Developing presentations and recommendations for executive leadership to support strategic sourcing decisions.
What Experience You Should Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Construction Management, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or Business (MBA or advanced degree preferred).
- 5+ years of strategic sourcing or category management experience focused on industrial construction or facilities engineering procurement.
- Experience managing large-scale sourcing projects for construction materials, contractors, or engineering services.
- Strong understanding of construction cost estimation, budgeting, and material cost drivers.
- Experience leading RFP/RFQ processes, supplier negotiations, and contract development.
- Ability to analyze supplier bids using TCO modeling, cost analysis, and financial modeling.
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, legal, finance, and project management teams.
What Will Help You Stand Out
- Familiarity with distribution center construction, logistics infrastructure, or retail supply chain environments.
- Experience working with construction management software (e.g., Procore) and sourcing platforms (e.g., Coupa).
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as OSHA, LEED, and construction compliance standards.
- Professional certifications such as CPSM, CCM, or CCPS.
- Strong financial acumen including experience analyzing budgets, cash flow, and cost structures.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, data modeling) and strong presentation capabilities.
Work Environment
- Hybrid role with regular in-office collaboration and occasional travel to facilities and project sites.
- Ability to manage multiple sourcing projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range for this position is up to $200,000.00, depending on experience and qualifications.
The total rewards package may include performance incentives, health benefits, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.
Who We Are:
17A is a new type of management consulting firm. We come from places like McKinsey, Palantir, JP Morgan Philanthropies, and venture-backed Healthcare startups. We share a common goal: improving the quality of government and social services. 17A believes that trust in government is something to be continuously built and earned, through strong service delivery.
We have a dynamic core team, and partner with Consultants, known internally as Project-Based Team Members, to bring the best combination of expertise to what we do. Our team has varied skills from a range of industries and experiences, including management consulting, technology and analytics, and public service. If you've spent the early part of your career in consulting or a fast-paced analytical environment and you're ready to apply those skills to something with direct civic impact, 17A is for you.
The Opportunity:
17A is supporting a large Bay Area county agency on a technology and digital services transformation effort. This is a fully embedded, on-site role — not parachuting in. You'll work inside the agency's innovation team, sitting alongside Deputy-level leadership to help the county deliver on its mission to make government more human, more responsive, and more digital. This position is a contract role with the potential to convert to full-time after a few months.
This agency has taken a distinctive approach to transformation: rather than buying expensive new systems and hoping for the best, it's doing the hard, human-centered work of dismantling bureaucracy, redesigning how services are delivered, and building a digital culture from the inside. A core initiative — which brings departments through rapid, structured sprints to identify and address service delivery friction — will be a major focus of this role.
This is a chief-of-staff style position for a sharp, early-career operator ready to take on real ownership. You'll help senior leaders turn strategy into action — managing complex initiatives across departments, facilitating working sessions, and communicating progress clearly to executive and operational audiences.
What You'll Do
- Serve in a chief-of-staff capacity to Deputy-level leaders within the innovation team, helping translate priorities into structured plans and concrete next steps
- Support coordination and execution of digital transformation sprints, including logistics, stakeholder engagement, documentation, and follow-through on recommendations
- Facilitate working sessions with department staff and senior leaders to map current-state processes, identify friction points, and co-design improvements
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional workstreams, tracking progress, surfacing blockers, and keeping stakeholders aligned across a large, multi-department organization
- Prepare executive-level communications including briefings, memos, presentations, and decision documents for senior agency leadership
- Conduct rapid research and analysis to support emerging decisions and evolving priorities
- Help build the internal documentation, playbooks, and operational systems the innovation team needs to scale its impact countywide
- Operate as a collaborative, low-ego team member who is genuinely embedded in the agency's culture and mission
Who You Are
You're 1–2 years into your career and you're looking for a role where you can do meaningful work and see the results directly. You might be a current or former:
- Business Analyst or Associate at a management consulting firm
- Fellow or analyst at a public sector-focused organization (e.g., a government innovation lab, a civic tech organization, or a public agency)
- Analyst in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment where you built strong project management and communication muscles
The Skillset:
You'll thrive in this role if you:
- Are energized by the mission — you genuinely care about improving how government works and the people it serves
- Are comfortable operating with ambiguity and building structure where there isn't any yet
- Have strong project management instincts and can keep multiple workstreams moving simultaneously
- Can communicate clearly and credibly with both frontline staff and senior leaders
- Understand that real transformation requires engineering culture, not just deploying technology
- Are ready to be embedded — not just advisory — and want to see the direct impact of your work
- Are based in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area
Bonus if you have:
- Familiarity with local or county government operations
- Experience with digital services, human-centered design, or service delivery improvement
- Prior exposure to process redesign, organizational change, or operational improvement
- Interest in civic technology and the future of public service delivery
Location:
This position is based out of San Francisco California and you must reside within the area. If you are interested in remote-only opportunities, please consider joining our Network for future roles.
Compensation:
Due to the nature of our business and the clients that we partner with, compensation for this position (and all of our opportunities) depends on the skillset, tenure, and experience that you possess. These specific positions have a range of 90,000- 120,000 annually. Depending on the type of work you do with us, you may be eligible to receive medical benefits and other perks.
Accommodation Statement:
Improving public service delivery requires a team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, domestic violence victim status, prior arrest or conviction record, military status, predisposing genetic characteristics, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or status with regard to public assistance.
We encourage and welcome applicants who identify with groups traditionally underrepresented in government to apply.
Please contact , if you would like to request reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process.
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