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Business Operations Lead

San Francisco, USAOn-sitePosted 1 month ago

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Level
Lead
Department
Business Operations
Experience
5+ years experience
Posted
Sep 3, 2026

About the role

About the role

We’re launching a new business line in response to exceptional market demand. As our Business Operations Lead, you’ll act like a GM and own the strategy, operations, reporting, and ultimately the P&L for this function. You’ll partner with the Exec Team, Sales, Deployment, Engineering and Operations to establish our playbooks and then rapidly execute on them to turn this into a strong 8-figure business in the first year.

  • An owner, not (just) an analyst. You establish the plan, work the plan, and live with the result. You’d rather be accountable for a number than merely right about one.
  • Allergic to dashboards nobody acts on. Any report that doesn’t change a decision is a distraction. You ruthlessly prioritize to ensure everyone is focused on the few metrics that matter.
  • A doer, not a delegator. Equally comfortable writing the SQL, restructuring a deal on a Friday night, or sitting down with the deployment teams to figure out how we can expedite time-to-value.
  • Commercially sharp. You think in terms of customer satisfaction, margin, utilization, and attach rate, and know how to build a strategy around it.
  • Relationship-oriented. You know your effectiveness depends on your ability to influence Sales, technical teams, and leadership.
  • High ownership, high slope. You see the gap, you propose the solution, you execute.

What You’ll Do

  • Own the P&L for your line: you build the operating plan and ultimately own the results, including revenue, margin, and profitability
  • Set and defend pricing and packaging. Build the model, pressure-test it in live deals, and change it the moment the market tells you it’s wrong.
  • Partner with Deployment on unit economics: how do we ensure this business is built to scale while delivering best-in-class customer experience?
  • Partner with Sales on deal strategy. Sit in on the calls, structure the contracts, and figure out how to win the business.
  • Build the forecast and the operating cadence (weekly pipeline, monthly business review, quarterly plan)
  • Scale from the 10k foot view down to the minutiae: where should we open an office? How will we recruit and maintain talent? What do we look for in a candidate?

What You’ll Need

  • 5-8+ years across business operations, strategic finance, corporate strategy, consulting, or an operating role at a high-growth software company.
  • Direct experience owning or materially shaping a P&L, a gross margin line, or a pricing model.
  • Strong quantitative and modeling skills.
  • Working fluency with the systems that run a GTM org: Salesforce, a BI tool, and billing or usage data you can reconcile without help.
  • Real command of software and AI unit economics: COGS, gross margin, payback, net revenue retention, and what changes each one.
  • A track-record of partnering closely with functional leaders to drive execution
  • Comfortable moving fast, being wrong in public, and correcting quickly.

Nice to Have

  • Investment banking, management consulting, or private equity / vc experience
  • Early-stage experience where you built the reporting and forecasting stack rather than inheriting one.

What We Offer

  • Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.
  • Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors. Grow rapidly with the company.
  • Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.