Operations Lead, Flashbots

• Experience running or heavily owning operations in a startup, scale-up, or similarly ambiguous environment, including building or improving processes for people, hiring, or related ops areas
• Comfort managing a small team while staying hands-on and close to the work
• Proven ability to bring order and predictability to messy or under-defined work while consistently hitting deadlines, closing loops, and following through without heavy oversight
• Demonstrated capacity to ramp quickly on new domains and tools and deliver value early, especially in support of internal teams as primary stakeholders
• Clear, honest communication with leaders and ICs, paired with a low-ego, low-politics style that builds trust across different personalities
• At least 3–5 years in operations or adjacent roles, including meaningful time in leadership or people management
• Proven experience leading or directly managing a small team
• Strong analytical skills with comfort using cutting edge technology for tracking and decision-making
• Demonstrated ability to design and run planning, goal-tracking, or project management systems
• High attention to detail and clear written and verbal communication
• Comfortable reporting to a steward and operating with influence rather than title

Desirable

• As Operations Lead, you’ll own the day-to-day running of the Ops team so the wider org can move faster with fewer bottlenecks
• You’ll partner with stewards and team leads, and bring structure to people, hiring, finance, legal, and planning workflows
• This role is for someone who likes turning chaos into clear systems, leading a small team, and having real impact
• Lead and support the Ops team through clear expectations, regular feedback, and day-to-day coaching
• Own core operations processes across people, hiring, finance, legal, and planning, keeping them reliable and on time
• Design and maintain lightweight rhythms for planning, goal tracking, and project management across the org
• Translate high-level direction from stewards into concrete plans, timelines, and responsibilities
• Build and refine simple systems, docs, and workflows so recurring work becomes predictable and less person-dependent
• Use cutting edge tools to track data, monitor progress, and inform decisions