Strategic Operations Manager

Strategic Operations ManagerThe role of Strategic Operations Manager is crucial in driving the success of our organization. As a key member of the leadership team, you will be responsible for translating high-level goals into actionable strategies and projects.- Serve as a gatekeeper, prioritizer, and sounding board for the founder's ideas.- Translate loosely defined concepts into structured, time-boxed projects with clear owners and success metrics.- Prepare board materials, investor updates, and strategic narratives that reflect real-time progress.This role is ideal for a systems thinker who thrives on making order out of ambiguity and measures success in multiplied impact rather than personal spotlight.- Design and run a fast, data-driven hiring funnel for engineering, supply-chain, manufacturing, and business teams.- Implement onboarding playbooks that compress ramp-up time and embed cultural values from day one.- Stand up initial supply-chain functions :

source suppliers, negotiate terms, and define quality KPIs.- Identify and unblock operational bottlenecks, factory layout, inventory turns, shipping lead times, and drive cross-functional fixes.- Capture learnings and transition steady-state ownership to a dedicated team.- 3-5 years of experience in operator / builder roles (founder's office, high-growth ops, consulting-turned-startup-operator, VC platform, etc.).- Track record of bootstrapping functions from scratch.- Systems thinker with bias to action.- Fluent across altitude levels.- Strong analytical and communication skills.- Low-ego, high-ownership :

driven by mission, eager to give credit, unafraid to ask dumb questions, relentless about follow-through.