[Hiring] Special Projects @Korrus

Role Description

This is a broad, high-ownership role in the Office of the CEO. You are the person any member of the leadership team can point at a problem. You take the direction, translate it into a plan with an owner, a date, and a definition of done, then make sure it happens.

You will report to the CEO and work daily with the CEO, CFO, and CIO of a global business. In a single week you can work with:

• Product development
• Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Supply chain
• Finance
• A consumer brand going to market

You will have a direct mandate from the CEO with full visibility. You do not need years of experience, and you do not need to know lighting. You need range, an unusual learning rate, and the nerve to hold a room accountable to what it committed to.

Qualifications

• You intend to start a company.
• You are looking at entrepreneurship through acquisition.
• You just finished an MBA and you are better than your offer list.
• You did your two years in investment banking or consulting.

Requirements

• Take direction from any member of the leadership team and drive it to completion across whatever functions it touches.
• Turn a one-line intent into a plan: scope, owner, date, definition of done, and the two or three things that will actually make it late.
• Run the operating cadence: program status, gate reviews, commitments, and the follow-through in between.
• Diagnose why work is late, and go find the answer at the source rather than passing along the explanation you were given.
• Build AI-assisted and agentic workflows that do this work at a scale one person could not.
• Prepare the analysis and the materials that leadership, and sometimes the board, make decisions from.

Benefits

• A direct line to the CEO and CFO of a global business, and a seat in the rooms where the calls actually get made.
• Range across executive leadership, finance, accounting, innovation, engineering, product development, supply chain, manufacturing, operations, and a consumer brand launching into the market.
• The mandate to deploy AI across an entire organization.
• Real operators to learn from, in an industry that is being rebuilt around science that did not exist a decade ago.
• Two years of this and you will know how a company is actually run.

What this role is not

• Not an executive assistant with a better title.
• You are measured on outcomes that shipped, not meetings you attended.
• Not a product, engineering, or design decision maker.
• Not a specialist seat.

How we see your first few weeks

We expect you to start with a learning phase: time to understand the business, meet the people whose work you will be driving, and find the first problem worth owning. Expect to ask a great many questions, and expect us to make time for them.

What you’ll do

• Take direction from any member of the leadership team and drive it to completion across whatever functions it touches.
• Turn a one-line intent into a plan: scope, owner, date, definition of done, and the two or three things that will actually make it late.
• Run the operating cadence: program status, gate reviews, commitments, and the follow-through in between.
• Diagnose why work is late, and go find the answer at the source rather than passing along the explanation you were given.
• Build AI-assisted and agentic workflows that do this work at a scale one person could not.
• Prepare the analysis and the materials that leadership, and sometimes the board, make decisions from.

What we’re looking for

• Range: Enough engineering, finance, operations, and commercial sense to hold your own in any of those rooms.
• Capacity: You absorb an unreasonable amount, quickly, and connect it across disciplines.
• Energy: This job is demanding, and the people who do it well want it that way.
• Fearlessness: You will ask the leadership team the question you think sounds dumb.
• Initiative: Told to get over there, you figure out the route.
• Business acumen, including real comfort with a P&L and the numbers underneath it.
• Genuine fluency with modern AI tools and agentic workflows.
• Two to four years in banking, consulting, private equity, or high-growth operations, or an engineering background.
• No lighting industry experience required, and none expected.

How we evaluate people here

• Energy: The effort you actually exert.
• Attitude: How you show up and contribute.
• Competency: What you know and the judgment to hold work up against the right quality bar.
• Capacity: The rate at which you acquire competency and direct it.

Strong pluses

• You have started something of your own, or intend to.
• You have built AI-assisted or agentic workflows that other people came to rely on.
• Experience across a hardware business: engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, or the commercial side of one.

Logistics and compensation

• Contract Role
• $11,000-$15,000/Monthly DOE
• Remote (US), with meaningful overlap with Pacific working hours and occasional travel to Southern California for in-person working sessions.
• Reports to the CEO, with a standing mandate to take direction from any member of the leadership team.

To be considered

Send us your resume and, in two or three sentences, tell us about a time you were responsible for something you had no authority over and got it done anyway. We are especially interested in what you did with AI to make it faster.

Korrus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.