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Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Instawork · Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

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About Instawork

Temporary and permanent staffing: hospitality, warehouse, retail, hotel, event, and food service operations. 7M workers across 400+ cities in U.S. and Canada. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and GV.

About the role

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

What they're looking for

  • Technical & Analytical Depth: You have a technical toolkit fueled by AI, using data to unearth new insights, build business cases, and measure the success of your pilots without needing a roadmap
More about this role

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives to join our Product Operations team and lead the charge in identifying and launching our next growth horizons. This is a high-octane, "General Manager" style opportunity to build new business lines from scratch—connecting our 10M+ flexible workers (“Pros”) with new industries and service categories. You will be tasked with parachuting into highly ambiguous, high-impact expansion initiatives to ignite the marketplace flywheel, prove unit economics, and transition new bets from "0 to 1."

  • Founder Mindset & Bias for Action: You have a "get-it-done" attitude and are willing to do whatever it takes to launch a category—whether that’s manually matching shifts,...

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