Head of Operations / Operations Lead
About The Position
Our client is building the infrastructure layer for how advanced hardware companies buy, track, and manage the parts that run their businesses. Customers run complex supply chains; our job is to turn that chaos into clarity. We need an operator who can take messy real-world procurement and convert it into repeatable execution. This is a senior, high-trust role with a broad remit: build the operating system for how we deliver to customers, run cross-functional execution, and scale internal processes without adding bureaucracy. The role is hands-on. Early on, you’ll do a lot personally, then turn that work into playbooks, tooling, metrics, and cadences others can run. As we expand into deeper workflows and new product lines, you’ll help define the operating model and strategy for delivering those offerings across product, engineering, growth, and customer ops.
Requirements
- Relentless organization and follow-through.
- Strong writing: playbooks, runbooks, crisp exec updates.
- Comfort in ambiguity and pace (Seed–Series A reality).
- Enough supply chain/manufacturing systems fluency to earn trust quickly.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced manufacturing, aerospace, defense, energy, or robotics exposure.
- Prior ownership of Delivery Ops / Implementation Ops / BizOps in B2B SaaS.
- Comfort in security-conscious environments and with trust/compliance stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Customer Delivery Ops (core) Build and run our onboarding and implementation motion end-to-end (discovery → data mapping → workflow design → UAT → go-live → post-go-live). Create the templates that make delivery predictable: project plans, checklists, comms packs, risk logs, escalation paths. Drive single-source-of-truth reporting for each account: status, blockers, owners, next steps.
- Systems + Supply Chain Fluency Be conversant in ERP/MRP, MES, PLM, configuration management, part masters, doc control, approval routings, and adjacent infrastructure. Work with engineering and product on integrations and workflows. You don’t need to write the code, but you do need to spec things cleanly, align stakeholders, and understand how data needs to move. Treat data hygiene as a product. This role benefits from someone who has lived PLM/admin, data cleanup, and doc control in the wild.
- Metrics + Decision-Quality Data Define and maintain dashboards/metrics for delivery throughput, implementation cycle time, customer health, risk, and internal execution. Build an operating cadence around those metrics (weekly reviews, escalations, postmortems). Strong preference for someone who can query data and build BI dashboards.
- Cross-functional Execution Drive cross-functional projects end-to-end: scope, plan, unblock, follow up, land the plane. Keep leadership and teams aligned with crisp written updates, clean meeting hygiene, and tight action-item ownership. This maps well to a product/people-ops/TPM-style operator who lives in process improvement and program management. As the client launches new capabilities, you’ll help shape how they’re operationalized across teams.
- Build the Function (depending on level) Ops Lead: high-ownership IC / player-coach. Head of Ops: define the function, hire the team, set OKRs/KPIs, build the rhythms, and own the company execution engine.
- Trust & Compliance Posture Help us stay audit-ready culturally: documentation, access/process discipline, vendor/tooling hygiene. Experience with trust/privacy/regulatory programs and internal business apps is a plus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
