Director of Business Operations, Nirvana Insurance
Special Projects
$230-285k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Commercial insurance & risk management
Job no longer available
Commercial insurance & risk management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$230-285k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of relevant work experience in high-growth startups, management consulting, investment banking or private equity
- Demonstrated critical thinking and project management experience combined with impeccable business judgment
- Experience implementing strategic and operational initiatives
- Experience developing intricate financial models and using presentations to facilitate communication with senior stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills to formulate and articulate contractual, technical, financial, and value points with partners and internal teams
- Successfully able to work in high-growth & dynamic start-up environments
- Prior people management or GM experience is a plus
- Experience building 0-1 products or services is a plus
- MBA and/or Founder experience is a plus
- Ability to work out of our SF office 3+ days/week
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll work on a wide range of tactical + strategic projects that are critical to Nirvana’s long-term growth
- Examples include launching a new business unit / bringing new products to market, scaling commercial operations, driving initiatives to improve key operating metrics, assisting in future financings / investment rounds and more
- Accordingly, we’re looking for a proactive candidate who thrives in a high-growth environment, takes ownership over initiatives and drives implementation with limited oversight
- Candidates should have excelled in a start-up environment or demonstrated top quartile performance in a management consulting, investment banking, or private equity role
- Drive intricate and time-critical projects, from strategy to real-world impact
- Synthesize data to identify KPIs and trends that translate into actionable insights
- Implement advanced analytics / modeling (i.e. bottoms-up operating models, pricing)
- Drive market research and assessments
- Help diligence, negotiate, and implement transactions (i.e. vendors, partners, M&A)
- Effectively collaborate and communicate results and insights with cross-functional teams
Our take
Nirvana's insurance and risk management offerings are built to transform the commercial insurance industry, which is worth over $850B. It delivers predictive models that use real-time data and automation to generate instant quotes.
Targeting commercial fleets, the platform is powered by sensors that are already onboard most heavy trucks. This means that Nirvana's offering is accessible without vast onboarding fees, giving clients of all sizes the opportunity to protect themselves and improve customer safety.
The company received some serious funding at the end of 2026, bringing its valuation to $1.5B and is now set to accelerate development of what it describes sas the first AI-native operating system built specifically for insurance. And as pressure mounts across the commercial trucking sector, Nirvana is positioning itself not just as a faster insurer, but as a foundational AI platform capable of reshaping underwriting, claims and risk management at industry scale.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Mar 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $262m
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rushil Goel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as VP of Product and Fleet GM at Samsara. Was also Senior Director/GM at Ola, and Co-Founder and CTO of AirCare Labs.
Alex Carges
(Co-Founder & Head of Insurance Product)Former Chief Actuary at Root Insurance and Associate Actuary at Allied World Assurance. Held a variety of roles at The Hartford - including FCAS, Director and Actuary, and Innovation Manager.
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