Special Projects Analyst

Job description

Location: Hybrid, Montreal Type: Full-time, permanent role. Competitive salary plus meaningful equity and benefits. About the Role This is a rare seat for someone early in their career who wants to operate like they're running a business within the business. You'll work closely with the CEO on the problems that matter most, and you'll move across a wide range of critical workstreams — hiring, financial modeling, deal-making, due diligence, and strategic initiatives — often several at once. One week you're building a model that shapes an acquisition; the next you're running a hiring process or digging into diligence on a target. It's a high-ownership, high-trust role, and deliberately broad. We're not going to hand you a narrow lane — we're going to hand you hard, undefined problems and trust you to own them end to end. It's the kind of seat where you learn more in a year than most people do in five, working directly alongside people who've built companies, run large operations, invested capital, and closed deals. This Is Not For You If… You want a single, clearly defined function rather than a rotating set of hard problems. You need detailed instructions before you can start, rather than figuring out the path yourself. You're looking for a support or coordination role — this is an ownership role. You'd rather go deep on one thing forever than build range across the whole business. What You'll Do Own a rotating portfolio of the company's most important problems, across hiring, finance, deals, diligence, and strategy. Build financial models and analyses that directly inform real decisions. Run point on projects end to end — from framing the problem to delivering the answer. Work closely with the CEO and the wider team, and fill whatever gap most needs filling. Turn ambiguity into structure: bring order, plans, and momentum to things that start out messy. Who You Are Early in your career but exceptional — you've already shown you operate well above your title. Sharp with numbers and comfortable in a model, and just as comfortable writing, thinking, and presenting. Entrepreneurial: you treat problems like they're yours to own, not tasks to complete. You thrive in ambiguity and want the range, not the safety, of a well-defined job. Nice to Haves Experience in a demanding, analytical environment — finance, consulting, a fast-growing startup, or your own venture. Exposure to M&A, investing, or operating a business. A genuine interest in the physical, built world and the people who run it. How to Apply Please send us either a short Loom video (preferred), your CV or a brief summary of your experience. Our Chief of Staff, Alexandra Kiekens, will reach out to you via LinkedIn to schedule a short 10-minute introductory phone call as the first step of the interview process. About Meroka Meroka exists to create generational wealth for the people who run the local economy — to power those who power everyday life. Practically, we acquire physical-economy, blue-collar, built-world businesses and enable them with technology so they can last forever. We're focused on longevity and succession. We don't roll everything up under one brand — we preserve each company's local name, its autonomy, and the hard-won knowledge of the operators who built it. Here's what gets us out of bed: the physical world is starved for labor while demand for building and infrastructure keeps climbing. Build genuinely good systems for it and you don't shrink the workforce — you grow it. More work, better jobs, better pay, better benefits, and a better life for the frontline workers who keep everyday life running and who've been overlooked by technology for decades. That's the wealth we're trying to create, and we're starting in Canada with room to expand internationally over time. We've raised roughly $25M CAD from Slow Ventures, 8VC, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Interplay, and others. Our first business is acquired, with many more to come. Between us, the founding team has built and run construction-tech businesses at real scale (think $100M in revenue and 600+ people), invested as venture capitalists, led M&A for public companies, designed novel deal structures and joint ventures, run manufacturing lines, and started companies of our own — some that worked, some that taught us a lot. So while this is an early-stage company where you'll have outsized impact, it comes with the runway and stability of a company that's already raised real capital and closed real deals. We also get everyone together twice a year at an offsite, because in-person is how we work best, and because it's fun. We have one foot on the job site and one foot in Silicon Valley. A morning building product and talking to top-tier investors; an afternoon in a truck headed to a site to see how the work actually gets done — steel-toe boots optional, but you'll want them eventually. And because we own our customers, you build and deploy to real businesses without sales cycles or convincing anyone to adopt you. Even a handful of acquisitions touches tens of thousands of households and thousands of frontline workers — the work you do here will be felt by millions downstream within a few years.