# Member of the Special Projects Staff at Mariana Minerals

- Company: Mariana Minerals
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://marianaminerals.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco HQ
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $185K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-30
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/marianaminerals/0c2e3425-1f0e-41c8-b5f1-c3a8a0cbf933?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mariana-minerals-member-of-the-special-projects-staff/

## 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

Tags: Special Projects

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