Strategy Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Strategic Project/Program Manager

Energy4Life · Salt Lake City, Utah (In-Person)

Be the operating system behind the founder. Keep the AI, the projects, and the people organized — so creativity moves at full speed.

Why This Role Exists: The founder is doing three jobs at once: innovating on THE FIELD app, directing the creative and launch of a documentary film, and setting the vision for an AI-run company. The bottleneck isn't ideas — it's that too much of the operation lives in one head.

This role exists to change that. You are the founder's Strategic Project/Program Manager — the person who keeps the AI infrastructure, the active projects, and the people organized and moving, so the founder can spend their time on the work only they can do: science, product, creative, and vision.

You are not a process manager running sprints for an engineering org. You are a force multiplier for one person and a small team of exceptional builders. Do this job well and the founder's output roughly doubles. That's the whole point.

What You'll Own: The accountability is yours. AI accelerates it — you're responsible for it.

• Program and project visibility. Clear, current status on every active initiative, what's blocked, and what's next — reported on a predictable cadence.
• Project documentation, decision logs, and status reporting systems. Context, decisions, and progress organized so nothing lives only in someone's head — and so AI agents can actually use it.
• Coordination across the team. The AI engineers, the biomedical AI work, the electronics engineer, and external partners — kept aligned through clarity, without you becoming the bottleneck.
• Quarterly planning and execution alignment. Translate founder direction into a structured project plan with milestones, owners, and deadlines — then track and report against it.
• The documentary as an active project (temporary). Coordinate the moving parts of the film and its launch until that work scales into the marketing function.

What You'll Build: This team runs AI-first. Not AI-curious. AI-first. You don't track things by hand if an agent can do it.

• AI systems that manage the work — surface project status, flag risk, and keep things moving without manual chasing.
• Configure AI agents to automate status tracking, risk flagging, and milestone reporting across projects.
• Agentic workflows that take operational load off the founder and the team — built and configured by you, in partnership with the AI engineers.

You don't need to out-engineer the AI scientists. But you should be able to build and configure agents yourself and work fluently in tools like Claude Code. Technical enough to build it; organized enough to make the whole thing cohere.

The Team You'll Work With

• A master's-level AI/CS engineer building the agentic system — an exceptional technical brain, early in business experience.
• A master's-level AI/CS engineer building the biomedical AI models.
• An electronics engineer building the devices.
• The founder — your closest working partner, with direct weekly access.

You'll also coordinate closely with the company's leadership — the CRO, the incoming Director of Marketing, the Operations Director, and the Controller. You don't manage them; you keep the work between them, the founder, and the build team aligned, visible, and moving. You're the connective tissue, not the chain of command.

Your edge isn't engineering depth — it's organization, coordination, and judgment. You turn brilliant individual work and a fast-moving leadership team into one aligned, compounding system.

Who This Role Is For

• You are relentlessly organized — you build order out of chaos by instinct.
• You think in systems and information architecture — you make complex things legible.
• You are AI-native — you already run your own work on AI, and you can build and configure agents.
• You coordinate brilliant people without managing them heavily — alignment through clarity, not control.
• You want ownership over how complex, multi-track initiatives actually get delivered.
• You move fast, hold a lot in your head, and make everyone around you more effective.

Who This Role Is Not For

• You need a defined process to follow rather than one to create.
• You treat AI as a tool you've heard of rather than how you actually work.
• You want to be the smartest engineer in the room.
• You need a large org and firm boundaries to feel comfortable.
• You confuse activity with progress.

How We Work

• AI-first. Humans direct and decide; AI does as much of the execution as possible.
• Small team, high ownership, direct founder access.
• Clarity over bureaucracy. Speed over polish — until polish matters.
• Build it, organize it, make it compound.

Compensation & Logistics

Salary: $100,000–$140,000, depending on experience.

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah — in-person.

Reports to: Founder.

To Apply: Show us how you organize. Send us a system you built, an agent or workflow you configured, or a project you ran end to end — and tell us how AI was part of it. We care about proof of work, not résumé polish.

Pay: $100,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health savings account
• Paid time off

Application Question(s):

• Send us a system you built, an agent or workflow you configured, or a project you ran end to end, and tell us how AI was part of it.

Work Location: In person