Project Manager, General Catalyst Institute

Who We Are

General Catalyst is a global investment and transformation company that partners with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI. We support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond. With offices in the U.S., Europe, and India, we have supported the growth of 800+ businesses, including Airbnb, Anduril, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, Commure, Glean, Gusto, Helsing, Hubspot, Kayak, Livongo, Mistral, Ramp, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, Sword, and Zepto.

The General Catalyst Institute (GCI) sits at the intersection of innovation, policy, and global resilience, working alongside founders, policymakers, and industry leaders to scale transformative technologies across healthcare, financial services, defense, advanced manufacturing, and energy. Our mission is to ensure that the most important companies of our time can navigate and shape the policy environments that will define their success, because better alignment between the public and private sectors is essential to driving long-term growth and a positive societal impact.

About The Role

We are seeking an exceptional Project Manager to help coordinate and execute a growing portfolio of initiatives spanning healthcare, defense, advanced manufacturing, AI, workforce development, and financial innovation.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in highly dynamic environments, enjoys operating across sectors, and can simultaneously manage multiple complex workstreams involving senior internal executives, leaders from government, industry, philanthropy, academia, and technology.

You will serve as the connective tissue across GCI's resilience initiatives—ensuring projects move from idea to execution while maintaining alignment among stakeholders, timelines, deliverables, and strategic objectives. Strong project and program managers excel at stakeholder management, risk mitigation, cross-functional coordination, and translating strategic goals into actionable work plans.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Project Management

• Manage a portfolio of strategic GCI initiatives across multiple sectors and geographies.
• Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, and governance structures.
• Track deliverables, dependencies, risks, and resource requirements across projects.
• Ensure projects remain on schedule and aligned with organizational priorities.
• Build systems and processes that improve execution, accountability, and operational efficiency.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinate across internal stakeholders, our founders, senior leaders in government, Fortune 500 companies, think tanks, and nonprofit organizations.
• Prepare briefing materials, project updates, executive summaries, and stakeholder communications.
• Facilitate meetings, working groups, and cross-sector collaborations.
• Serve as a trusted partner to internal and external stakeholders.

Strategic Execution

• Support the design and implementation of resilience-focused initiatives.
• Conduct research and synthesize complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Identify opportunities for new partnerships, programs, and collaborations.
• Help translate high-level strategic objectives into operational plans and measurable outcomes.

Events & Convenings

• Support and coordinate all workstreams leading up to GCI’s annual Summit on US Resilience
• Support the planning and execution of executive roundtables, summits, working groups, and international delegations.
• Coordinate speakers, partners, agendas, logistics, and follow-up actions.
• Ensure that convenings lead to tangible outcomes and ongoing engagement.

Operations & Reporting

• Maintain project dashboards, reporting frameworks, and performance metrics.
• Monitor budgets and external vendor relationships when applicable.
• Develop processes that improve visibility across the broader resilience portfolio.
• Identify risks and proactively recommend mitigation strategies.

Areas of Focus

Projects will vary but will always touch one of the many sectors in our Global Resilience portfolio:

• Artificial Intelligence and national competitiveness
• Healthcare transformation and resilience
• Defense innovation and industrial capacity
• Advanced manufacturing and supply chain security
• Workforce development
• Energy and infrastructure resilience
• Public-private partnerships
• Economic security and geopolitical risk
• Global resilience and international collaboration

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of experience in project management, program management, strategy, consulting, operations, public policy, government, nonprofit leadership, or related fields.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to synthesize complex topics into concise recommendations.
• Experience working with senior executives, policymakers, or institutional leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and drive outcomes.
• Familiarity with project management tools and workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in government, consulting, venture capital, philanthropy, think tanks, international organizations, or mission-driven startups.
• Exposure to healthcare, AI, defense, manufacturing, climate, energy, or economic development issues.
• Experience organizing executive-level convenings and stakeholder engagement efforts.
• Graduate degree in public policy, business, international affairs, engineering, or a related field is a plus.

  

At General Catalyst, we believe the best ideas and the boldest outcomes come from people who bring different perspectives to the table. We know that outlier outcomes require us to think differently than everyone else. That’s why we’re committed to building teams that reflect a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and ways of thinking. Diverse perspectives are essential to our mission of responsible innovation and creating inclusive prosperity.