Head of Special Projects - Technical

## **Company Overview:** Function Health is the AI operating system for health, designed to empower people to live 100 healthy years. Through advanced diagnostics, deep biomarker testing, longitudinal data, and AI-enabled insights, Function equips hundreds of thousands of members with the intelligence to take control of both the quality and length of their lives. Function has been recognized as one of [Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2024](https://www.fastcompany.com/91040051/function-health-most-innovative-companies-2024)and is venture-backed by [Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)](https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-function-health/), with a recently announced $298M Series B. Function's Imaging Team powers one of the most advanced cancer screening platforms in the world, offering AI-driven MRI scans across 13 organs at 200+ imaging facilities in 150+ cities across the US and abroad. This infrastructure sits at the core of Function's mission to move healthcare from reactive to proactive, and is scaling rapidly as part of the company's next chapter of growth. We are building a world-class team that believes deeply in that mission, operates with a relentless bias toward action, and brings the technical rigor to match the ambition. **Role** This is not a strategy role. It is not a coordination role. It is not an advisory role. It is a build role for someone with a technical mind who wants real ownership, moves fast, and finds energy in problems that have never been solved before. You will own the most critical external-facing projects that currently have no clear owner. Product launches and new business lines that have to work in the real world. Each project starts from scratch: new domain, new constraints, no template. You will figure out what the right question is, get smart fast, and drive it all the way to done. We operate AI-first. The people who thrive here have fundamentally changed how they work and keep changing it. They're always testing what's new, replacing yesterday's workflow with something faster, and building things with AI that would have taken a full team six months ago. They pick up new tools before anyone asks them to, they automate what others still do by hand, and the bar they hold themselves to isn't what's possible today — it's what should be possible tomorrow. The best version of this person has built real things with their own hands. They started technical and grew beyond it. They know what it feels like when the work has to survive contact with customers, partners, and markets, not just internal stakeholders. They would rather build the map than wait for one. They do the research, write the recommendations, make the call, and keep moving. **If your strongest work has been advising others, producing strategy for someone else to execute, or improving internal process, this won't be a fit.** **Key Responsibilities** - Own external and market-facing projects end to end. From scoping the actual problem to delivering a finished outcome. These initiatives are high-priority and undefined by design. - Do the work. Research new domains from scratch, structure the problem, produce real outputs: working products, plans, frameworks you then execute. Not summaries of what others should do. - Build, not just decide. You go deep technically when the project demands it and you ship. - Write clearly and drive alignment. Turn ambiguous situations into a point of view leadership can act on. - Make decisions and move. You will not have perfect information. You make the call anyway and adjust. - Work across functions. Operations, product, clinical, engineering, legal, finance. You go where the project needs you, not where the org chart points. - Drive multi-million dollar initiatives from concept through execution, accountable for outcomes at every stage. **Qualifications** - **STEM background, required.** A degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, biology, chemistry, or a comparable technical fie…