Head of Operations

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead and optimize internal operations, ensuring seamless coordination across Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Finance functions.
• Build and own operating rhythms and KPIs across departments—establishing accountability frameworks and reporting mechanisms that enable scale.
• Drive process improvement initiatives, systems integrations, and automation efforts to reduce inefficiency and improve time-to-value across teams.
• Collaborate closely with Revenue and Customer teams to optimize lifecycle execution, renewal management, and GTM effectiveness.
• Serve as strategic partner to the CEO and executive team, enabling data-informed decision-making through strong business intelligence and analytics.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and headcount planning processes in partnership with Finance.
• Manage key vendors, tools, and technology platforms that support internal operations (CRM, project management, support, and ERP systems).
• Hire, lead, and mentor a growing Ops team; foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
  

Key Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience in business operations, revenue operations, or strategy roles in SaaS, tech-enabled services, or startup environments.
• Proven success leading operations through periods of rapid growth or transformation.
• Familiarity with scaling business systems and tools (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, NetSuite, Gainsight, Looker, or similar platforms).
• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration and communication skills; experienced in influencing at the executive level.
• Strong analytical orientation with comfort building, managing, and interpreting operational dashboards.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities in building high-performing teams and scalable processes.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or related graduate degree is a plus.
  

Competencies

• Builder’s mindset with attention to detail and a relentless drive for improvement.
• Balances strategy with execution—comfortable in both the weeds and the boardroom.
• High EQ, low ego—able to inspire teams while holding them to high standards.
• Operates with urgency, transparency, and integrity.
  

Pay is biweekly
This is a job description taken off a random Head of Operations posting on LinkedIn :)

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Software Development

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