Strategy & Operations Associate, Arbol
$100-110k
+ Equity
Climate risk coverage company
Be an early applicant
Climate risk coverage company
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-110k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make a difference - for you, for us, for your farmer, for your energy providers, for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a smart, adaptable generalist who learns quickly, exercises strong judgment, and enjoys bringing structure to ambiguous problems
- One to two years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, startup operations, fintech, or another analytically rigorous environment
- Management consulting experience is especially attractive because of the role’s emphasis on structured problem-solving, cross-functional execution, and working through ambiguity
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with financial and operational data
- An ability to understand complex systems, identify what matters, and translate analysis into action
- Strong project-management skills, including the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and drive work forward without constant supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail without losing sight of broader commercial priorities
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where responsibilities may evolve as the business grows
- A low-ego, high-ownership approach and a willingness to move between strategic analysis and detailed execution
- Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets; experience with SQL, data-visualization tools, workflow automation, or AI-enabled tools is helpful but not required
- Direct fintech or financial-services experience is helpful but not required. Intellectual curiosity, commercial judgment, and the ability to learn quickly are more important
- Ability to sit for extended periods of time while working at a computer, with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability to use a computer, keyboard, mouse, and standard office equipment (e.g., phone, printer, scanner)
- Ability to view a computer screen for prolonged periods, with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability to communicate effectively in person, by phone, and via email
- Ability to occasionally stand, walk, bend, and reach within an office environment
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 10–15 pounds occasionally (e.g., office supplies, files), with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability to perform repetitive motions, such as typing or data entry
- Ability to maintain focus and attention while performing detailed tasks
- Arbol values the perspectives and experience of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds and we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every requirement
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly capable Strategy & Operations Associate to help build and scale a growing fintech business
- You will work closely with senior leadership and collaborate across product, technology, sales, finance, and operations
- The role combines analytical problem-solving with hands-on execution: you will identify important business problems, develop practical solutions, and remain involved until those solutions are working in practice
- This is not a purely advisory role. You will have direct ownership over critical workflows, operating metrics, and cross-functional initiatives that affect customers, partners, and financial performance
- Own and improve critical business workflows across customer onboarding, transaction execution, account servicing, partner management, reporting, and other core operations
- Identify operational bottlenecks and build scalable processes, controls, and documentation to address them
- Work with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into clear requirements for internal tools, customer-facing products, and automation
- Build reporting that gives the team visibility into growth, conversion, turnaround times, service levels, unit economics, and other key performance indicators
- Analyze business performance and recommend changes to improve growth, efficiency, economics, and customer experience
- Coordinate across product, technology, sales, finance, operations, and external partners to keep important initiatives moving
- Support the development and launch of new products, partnerships, and distribution channels
- Conduct market, competitor, and strategic analysis to inform business priorities
- Manage high-priority projects from initial problem definition through implementation and ongoing performance monitoring
- Help establish the operating cadence, processes, and infrastructure required to scale the business
- Step into emerging problems that do not fit neatly within an existing function and take responsibility for resolving them
Our take
$1 trillion of agricultural risk is not insured, much of it in developing nations, where many farmers do not have access to insurance at all. Small-hold farmers, or those facing variable weather conditions - only more frequent due to climate change - are last in line to receive coverage from traditional providers.
Arbol fulfils this gap with new technologies fit for these farmers needs. The company offers parametric insurance codified on the Ethereum blockchain. That means it can utilize smart contracts, executing against hard parametric data to deliver automatic payments in two weeks or less. Weather risk for agriculture is Arbol’s primary coverage focus in its early stages, but it has already started rolling out smart contracts for other types of risk and industry.
Getting farmers paid in cases of conditions outside their control is a relatively simple concept. Arbol’s challenge is executing this. So far, it has done a great job of navigating customer education, complex datasets, evolving standards in the blockchain world, regulations, legal complexity, and a host of other challenges. And now with extra funding, the company is ready to widen the adoption of its products and establish climate risk as a tangible and investable asset class.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2024
$60m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $71m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision - 99.99% Covered
- Paid Holidays and Vacation: We support all of ‘em. But don’t let that stop you from taking personal time when you need to. We want you at your best. Always
- Matching 401k: After your 1st year anniversary, we match your contributions up to 6%
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Siddhartha Jha
(Founder & CEO)Before Arbol, they were a Cross-Commodities Quantitative Strategist at Citadel. Also worked in Commodities trading at Castleton, Arbalet Capital and JP Morgan Chase. Harvard graduate.
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