Founding Ops Lead, Granola
£50-80k
5 days a week in office (Old Street)
The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
Job no longer available
The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
£50-80k
5 days a week in office (Old Street)
1-20 employees
Company mission
Build tools that help humans think better
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of operations experience at high-growth startups
- Experience designing and implementing people operations processes
- Strong track record in vendor negotiations and relationship management
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Experience running successful office operations
Desirable
- Previous experience setting up offices from scratch
- Track record of organizing events and offsites for your company and their community
- Experience managing AWS and other technical vendor relationships
- Experience in high-growth tech startups (Series A to B)
What the job involves
- Own the operational machine that keeps Granola running - systems, tools, processes, and policies
- Manage our key business relationships and ensure we stay compliant and secure as we scale
- Build and maintain the infrastructure needed for a fast-growing company
- Creating a vibrant workspace from scratch in our brand new office
- Run day-to-day office operations ensuring everything works smoothly
- Build and run all people operations processes
- Negotiate and manage key vendor relationships
- Champion our culture and help maintain it as we grow
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Anyone who's tried coding in a modern code editor (an integrated development environment, or IDE) would balk at the idea of trying to use a basic text editor for coding. However, knowledge workers typically use a simple text editor for just about everything. Until now it's been difficult to do much about this, but large language models have recently advanced to the point where it should be possible for a tool to understand the context of any writing activity and anticipate the next steps for the user.
Granola, a London startup, is seeking to make this context-aware editor, building AI into text editing tools to augment the abilities of its users in the same way an IDE does for a coder. As something like VS Code crossed with Copilot, but for knowledge work, its solution will draw on the wider context of a workplace (not just the contents of the current document but also planned meetings, notes, emails and other information) to help with the task at hand.
The company is currently pre-product and is rounding out its founding team. With a second-time founding team (one of the founders' previous startups was acquired by Google) and plenty of support from investors who believe in the product direction (including Lightspeed Ventures, the co-founder of Instagram and former Facebook and Google talent), it will be exciting to see how Granola delivers on its vision over the coming months and years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
15% female employees
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$20m
SERIES A
May 2024
$4.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $28.8m
Company benefits
- Ability to progress quickly - at an early stage start-up we can promote quickly based on good performance
- Grow a product / business from 0-1, with a strong influence on business decisions
- Flexible, parent-friendly culture - We default to in-person, but feel free to WFH when you need to
- A beautiful, light-filled office full of plants and good vibes in Second Home Spitalfields
- 🇪🇸 Casa Granola: use our team house sunny Majorca (yes, you read that right). It’s a space for offsites, going deep on a project with a small group, or just inviting friends/family for a holiday
- ❤️ Private health insurance: Free for you, subsidised for your family
- 🏖️ 25 days paid time off each year
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Christopher Pedregal
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has worked as a Product Lead and Product Manager for Google. Was previously founder & CEO of Socratic prior to its acquisition by Google.
Sam Stephenson
(Co-Founder)Ex Product designer and front-end developer. Designed consumer-facing products with Ideaflow, Carv, Swim Smooth, and others.
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