Founding Business Operations Role

Headstarter•San Francisco, CA

10d•$60,000 - $110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a founding Business Operations leader at Headstarter, you’ll be at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution, playing a critical role in driving growth and efficiency. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, solve complex problems, and ensure the business operates seamlessly. Headstarter is building the “one-stop shop” ecosystem to boost every aspect of broken, archaic CS programs globally — cataloging top CS projects, leaning/upskilling new technologies, job/internship guarantees, interview preparation, industry mentors, team projects, networking, resume experience, support/debug, structure/environment, accountability. They are starting with an “accelerator” that spans 4-months and an AI recruiter that is working for over 30 startups hire for 100+ engineering roles. The mission is to give future tech leaders direction, standardization, consistency and transparency. The team is a lean, aggressive team of founders set on building a new generational incumbent in learning and recruiting. Headstarter was founded by Yasin Ehsan and Faizan Ahmed— Capital One/6x overall hackathon winner and Amazon/published ML paper at age 19— alongside advisors like founders of Duolingo, Foursquare, etc. They are nearing product-market fit and are building out their founding team very quickly.

Requirements

Founding Business Operations leader experience
Experience at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution
Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams
Experience identifying opportunities and solving complex problems
Experience ensuring seamless business operations
Experience defining and driving key strategic initiatives
Experience partnering with leadership to outline projects
Experience conducting data analysis and building models
Experience designing and implementing scalable processes
Experience optimizing efficiency and driving operational excellence
Experience identifying and executing on opportunities to improve customer experience and unlock new revenue streams.

Responsibilities

Defining and driving key strategic initiatives to support product and business goals.
Partnering with leadership to outline the 0-to-1 of projects, including requirements, goals, and roadmaps.
Conducting data analysis and building models to inform decision-making across product, operations, and customer strategy.
Designing and implementing scalable processes to optimize efficiency and drive operational excellence in sales and top-funnel engagement
Identifying and executing on opportunities to improve customer experience and unlock new revenue streams.