# Strategic Projects Lead

**Company:** [Playground](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/playground)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $200k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy, Business Operations, Financial Modeling, Executive Hiring, Go-to-Market Strategy, Ai Product Development, M&A Diligence, International Expansion, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> Serve as the CEO’s right hand on 0-to-1 strategic initiatives including launching new AI products, building outbound sales engines, hiring executives, and leading international expansion.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

**Launch New AI Product Offerings**
- Identify whitespace opportunities, validate product-market fit, and build new AI-powered products from concept to revenue
- Define the roadmap, hire initial team members, and scale successful initiatives

**Build and Systematize Outbound Go-to-Market**
- Design Playground’s outbound sales motion from the ground up
- Develop targeting, messaging, and sequencing strategies
- Leverage AI and automation tools to create scalable systems that drive growth efficiently

**Hire Key Executives**
- Partner closely with the CEO to identify, recruit, and close senior leadership talent
- Lead structured hiring processes for VP- and C-level roles

**Lead International Expansion**
- Evaluate new markets, build business cases, navigate operational and regulatory complexity
- Establish Playground’s presence in new geographies — from first hire to first customers

**Drive High-Impact Strategic Initiatives**
- Take ownership of ambiguous, cross-functional projects that don’t fit neatly into existing teams
- Build structure where none exists, move quickly, and deliver outcomes that materially impact the business

## Who You Are
- 3–10 years of experience in management consulting, investing, corporate strategy, business operations, or as a founder — ideally within a high-growth startup or similarly fast-paced environment
- Highly structured thinker who can take ambiguous problems and turn them into clear execution plans
- Entrepreneurial and resourceful, with a proven ability to build from scratch and operate effectively without a playbook
- Analytical and data-driven, comfortable building financial models, running analyses, and using insights to drive decisions
- Exceptional communicator who can confidently write executive-level materials, lead meetings, and influence stakeholders across functions
- Scrappy, high-ownership, and relentless about execution quality and speed
- Energized by operating in high-stakes environments with significant autonomy and visibility

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity
- 3 weeks of PTO
- Health, vision, and dental benefits
- $1,200/year education stipend
- 401(k)
- Free lunch daily
- New MacBook and any equipment you need

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