Head of Special Projects, CPOHQ
Founder's Office
4-5 days a week in office (Hudson Yards, NY)
People analytics platform for CPOs
Open for applications
People analytics platform for CPOs
201-500 employees
Open for applications
4-5 days a week in office (Hudson Yards, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower the next generation of CPOs and People leaders with the right information at the right time.
Role
Who you are
- Two things make this person: the way you're wired, and the track record that proves it
- You're a force-of-nature operator who switches altitudes from 10,000-foot strategy to 1-foot detail without losing a step - and loves both
- You're a barrel, not ammunition (as Keith Rabois puts it): unreasonably resourceful, self-driven, and most alive in the trenches. Hand you an ambiguous mandate and you take it from 0 to 1 to live with taste, urgency, and near-zero handholding
- You bring militant operational discipline. You're who teams trust with the hardest, messiest, most cross-functional projects - and you make them look easy
- And you're a pleasure to do it with. Positive, optimistic, steady under pressure
- You can speak engineering. You don't write the code, but you can sit with eng, scope the work, QA it, and keep a roadmap moving without slowing anyone down
- You're AI-native. AI is part of how you think and work - you've found tools and automations that 95% of your peers don't understand yet, and they make you dramatically more productive
- You're quantitative and systems-savvy. Sharp with spreadsheets, dangerous with modern tools, and you decide from metrics, not vibes. You can ship an automation or a dashboard without waiting on eng. (Nice to have: product analytics tools like PostHog.)
- And you've got the receipts. We think the right person could be one of two profiles (and we're happy to be proven wrong):
- The operator with elite training. A few years at a top consulting firm or bank (MBB / top-tier or equivalent), where you climbed fast, then moved into a startup and operated in the trenches. The rigor of a top firm, the scrappiness of a startup
- The startup-grown generalist. You've spent your career inside high-growth startups (Series A/B/C), started junior, and earned your way up as the person who gets things done across every function
- Either way: 4-7 years as a top performer in roles that demand extreme rigor and intensity, with 12+ months (ideally more) in a scrappy 0-1 environment where you saw firsthand how engineering, product, and design actually work together
What the job involves
- We're hiring a senior operator to be the operational center of gravity for the company. You'll partner directly with our Founder/CEO (Joseph), and you'll be the person who makes sure the trains run on time at a high bar - across product, engineering, GTM, community, and people
- Project manage every workstream. Drive execution across the whole company so ideas turn into shipped work, on time, with no dropped balls. You're the connective tissue between functions
- Drive the engineering and product roadmap. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our technical lead to keep eng, product, and design moving - scoping work, QA-ing on production, triaging fixes, and closing the loop - so Joseph stays focused on the highest-leverage bets
- Run on metrics. Own the company's source of truth - the dashboards and definitions leadership steers by - and the data plumbing (PostHog, HubSpot) that keeps it honest
- Bring operational rigor. Install the cadences, systems, and accountability a fast team needs to scale without breaking
- Make "how we work" agent-first. Wire up the automations, agents, and pipelines that lets us increase productivity with zero added headcount
- Scale what works from 1 to 10. Turn operations held together by heroics today into repeatable systems
- The product roadmap's execution. Keep eng, product, and design in lockstep - scope, QA, ship - and own the rollout end to end
- Product PMF sprints. Drive a product to PMF - set the goal, define the metrics, and rally the team around it week over week
- The metrics & analytics stack. The single source of truth - dashboards, retention curves, and the automation that keeps our data systems in sync
- The GTM & automation stack. The tools and AI workflows (N8N, Clay, HubSpot, MCPs, and whatever ships next) - standing them up with zero eng support
- Flagship events. ELEVATE (our in-person CPO conference) and CPOHQ roundtables & dinners, end to end
- Hiring & onboarding. Source, close, and onboard engineers, operators, and other key hires as we grow
- + dozens more, across every function
Our take
Gender and diversity gaps are a point of great attention in the current landscape of workforces. Hiring managers can gain great insights into their staff demographics through employee diversity statistics, but analyzing all of this information is time-consuming and complex. CPOHQ provides software that helps HR workforces to analyze employee data and make better employment decisions.
The platform dashboard provides macro insights for large-scale employment decisions - such as reducing the gender pay gap - in addition to granular data such as individual employee trajectories. The company is not the only HR data analysis platform of its kind, but has made good strides to consolidate a place for itself in the market.
In the long term, CPOHQ wants to develop its predictive analytics engine aimed at helping HR issues like retention and turnover. It continues to enhance both its People Analytics platform and community platform, investing funds from 2025 into innovative platform capabilities of the back of the "AI supercycle".
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Company
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Joseph Quan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Joseph co-founded Twine in 2018 and was selected by Melinda Gates as one of Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30 in the same year. They then founded CPOHQ in 2020 and have served as the company's CEO since.
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