AI Biz Ops Lead

Quandri • Vancouver, BC

7d • $100,000 - $140,000 • Remote

About The Position

We're looking for someone to own the operational backbone of a fast-scaling AI company - and rebuild it with AI at the center. Quandri is growing fast, and with that growth comes the need for someone who can bring structure without slowing things down. Contracts, compliance, spend approvals, internal workflows — these all need to be built right, and built once. At the same time, we believe every team at Quandri should be working in fundamentally AI-native ways, and that shift needs a champion who can drive it across the entire organization. This role sits at the intersection of Finance, AI operations, and Legal. You'll report to the Head of Finance with a dotted line to the CEO, and you'll have direct access to both. You'll have real autonomy to define how this function works and the mandate to make it stick.

Requirements

• Sharp critical thinking and analytical skills — you break problems down, find the root cause, and solve it. You don't just follow a process — you question whether the process should exist at all.
• An obsession with AI — you're not just "interested in AI." You're using it daily, building with it, pushing its limits. You have opinions about which tools work and which don't. You want to be the person who makes an entire company AI-native.
• Project management chops with real follow-through — you can run five workstreams simultaneously, keep stakeholders aligned, and actually ship. You don't just plan — you execute and close loops.
• Comfort reviewing legal documents — you've read contracts before, you understand what a redline is, and you can spot problematic terms without needing a lawyer to translate. You don't need to be a lawyer, but you need to be able to think critically about business implications when it matters.
• Resilience in ambiguity — you thrive when there's no playbook. You've worked in environments where you had to figure it out as you went, and you came out the other side with something that worked.
• Strong communication across levels — you can present a compliance framework to leadership, walk an engineer through a new AI workflow, and negotiate contract terms with a vendor in the same week.
• A builder's instinct — you'd rather create a function from nothing than inherit one. You see a gap and you fill it. You don't wait to be told what to do.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a leading management consulting firm
• Startup experience
• Hands-on SOC2 compliance experience
• A JD or legal background

Responsibilities

• Own business process design and enforcement — Build the operational scaffolding a scaling company needs. That means identifying where Quandri is running on tribal knowledge or duct tape (spend approvals, contract workflows, compliance tracking) and replacing it with systems that hold up at 2x the headcount.
• Drive AI adoption across the entire company — this is ~40% of the role. Identify workflows that should be AI-native, build the tools and shared resources (prompt libraries, memory bases, custom skills) to make it happen, and get every team actually using them
• Special Projects - Lead high-impact strategic projects that don't have a home yet, things like pricing analysis, vendor consolidation business cases, GTM efficiency deep dives, or operational model builds. These are the problems that sit between Finance, Product, and Ops where the answer isn't obvious and someone needs to go figure it out.
• Review and manage contracts and compliance (for now) — handle first-pass review on vendor agreements, customer redlines, and negotiations. Maintain SOC2 compliance without over-relying on external counsel. The expectation: within 6 months, you've built the AI-assisted workflows and playbooks that make 80% of this self-serve or automated, so you can shift that time toward higher-leverage work.
• Project manage cross-functional initiatives — take AI and ops projects from idea to shipped, working across operations, engineering, sales, and customer success.
• Build the change management muscle — getting people to adopt new processes and tools is harder than building them. You'll own the rollout, training, and follow-through that turns a new workflow from an announcement into a habit
• Be the connective tissue between legal, finance, and AI — you sit at the intersection of three functions that most companies silo. Connect them. Make the compliance review faster with AI. Make the AI rollout compliant from day one.

Benefits

• Base salary of $100,000 - $140,000, dependent on level of experience
• Employee stock options based on experience level
• Comprehensive health benefits, including $500 Lifestyle Spending Account
• Four weeks of paid vacation per year
• Work anywhere in the world for 60 calendar days of the year
• Parental leave top-ups: 6 months for birthing parents, 8 weeks for non-birthing parents (up to $100,000 annual salary)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed