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CleraPosted Nov 14, 2026
Strategic Project Lead, Demand Side
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Clera Strategic Project Lead, Demand Side at Clera leads company acquisition and client success for an AI-powered talent marketplace. The role involves hands-on execution of outbound outreach and building trusted relationships with high-growth company leaders.
Responsibilities
- Join the demand-side team at an AI-powered talent marketplace connecting startups with qualified candidates. You will lead company acquisition and client success, building a repeatable growth engine while working across strategy and hands-on execution.
- Own company acquisition from prospecting through onboarding and client activation.
- Build trusted relationships with founders, executives, and talent leaders at high-growth companies.
- Understand hiring needs and translate them into successful candidate searches.
- Generate qualified demand through outbound, referrals, partnerships, events, content, and other go-to-market channels.
- Personally execute outreach, including cold calls, tailored email and LinkedIn sequences, and event participation.
- Test messaging, channels, customer segments, and commercial approaches, then turn successful experiments into repeatable processes.
- Work with talent and product teams to improve matching quality, client experience, and marketplace liquidity.
Qualification
Experience in a demandingStrong written and verbal communication
Required
- Project-management or project-lead experience, plus 1 to 2 or more years in a client-facing, commercial, consulting, operations, or growth role.
- Experience in a demanding, fast-paced setting, such as a venture-backed startup, management consulting, investment banking, or venture capital.
- Hands-on experience with outbound client acquisition or demand generation, ideally engaging founders or senior leaders.
- Strong written and verbal communication, relationship-building, and project execution skills.
- Comfort moving between go-to-market strategy and hands-on work, including personally conducting early-stage outreach.
- Recent in-person work experience and ability to work on-site in San Francisco.
Company
Clera
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