About Port:
Port is the Agentic SDLC Platform. The way engineering teams build software is constantly evolving, and every new wave - such as AI agents operating across the SDLC - makes engineering more powerful, but also more complex and chaotic.
Port turns that chaos into control: one platform to build, govern, and operate the software development lifecycle, enabling every team to move as fast as technology allows.
Following our $100M Series C funding round, we are entering an exciting stage of significant growth and global expansion. As a product-led company, we believe the recipe for success is a world-class product that speaks for itself.
The Special Projects Lead in Port's CEO's Office serves as a strategic connection point between Port's product organization and its go-to-market teams. Reporting to the Field CTO, this role addresses the company's highest-priority challenges as they emerge, and operates across a broad and evolving scope of strategic initiatives.
The core of the role is 0→1 execution. Each quarter, the position is aligned to specific company KPIs, and is responsible for building the required foundations from the ground up: processes, tooling, content, and enablement infrastructure. Initiatives are developed, validated, and operationalized before being transitioned to the relevant owning team.
Execution spans a wide range of activities depending on the initiative in focus. These may include:
Building product demos and technical assets on the Port platform
Partnering with marketing to produce content that communicates Port's positioning to the market
Meeting with customers and prospects to gather feedback and validate direction
Representing Port at industry conferences and events
Conducting market research to inform where the company invests next
Designing and standing up new internal processes, programs, and tooling
The scope of this role is intentionally broad and will evolve alongside company priorities. It is well suited to a candidate who thrives on breadth, operates with speed and autonomy, and is motivated by working at the center of the business.
What success will look like:
Own strategic initiatives end to end, from definition through execution and handover, working in close partnership with the Field CTO on direction while driving the execution independently
Proactively identify signals in the market, product, or field, and initiate ideas and projects independently, without waiting for direction from the Field CTO or CEO
Set a consistently high quality bar, delivering work that is best in class rather than simply complete
Operate independently in front of customers and prospects, running meetings and demos with confidence and credibility
Become a recognized internal expert on both the Port platform and the broader market, and a person other teams come to for answers
Move quickly across changing priorities, ramping into new domains and delivering meaningful output within weeks rather than months
The clearest signal of success is that initiatives this person touches move faster, land better, and reach a higher standard than they would have otherwise.