Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying the minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. Backed by Khosla and a16z.
About the role
Special Projects is a high-agency problem-solving team at Mariana, empowered by leadership to solve the company’s most critical and least defined problems. In any organization, there are high-leverage, ambiguous problems that either fall between organizational structures or have proven intractable within a team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- High agency: you have a strong bias for action. You are willing to push, experiment, and act without waiting for instructions
- Low ego: you are more interested in the problem being solved than in being seen solving it
- High EQ: you understand people intuitively and know how to get the best out of them
- Magnetic: people are drawn to working with you
- Curious: you want to know how the block model is built, how a refinery works, where sorbent comes from, how legal contracts are structured, why we care about accruals, how best to do a retro, why the model says what it says, and so on
- Comfortable with ambiguity: you are not scared of endless shades of grey
More about this role
Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company on a mission to supply the critical minerals powering modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. We’re reimagining the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
Special Projects is a high-agency problem-solving team at Mariana, empowered by leadership to solve the company’s most critical and least defined problems. In any organization, there are high-leverage, ambiguous problems that either fall between organizational structures or have proven intractable within a team. Special Projects solves these problems by embedding quickly, using first-principles thinking to decomp problems, leading cross-functional execution, and iterating rapidly toward a solution before moving on to the next challenge. It is a dynamic, high-ownership, low-ego team that requires seasoned, independent problem-solvers. Problem spaces include but are not limited to: engineering, operations, software development, new project development, finance, brand, and more.
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