Operations - Generalist / Business Operations

Valthos • New York, NY

20h • Onsite

About The Position

Valthos Inc. is an applied biological intelligence company that builds and deploys software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity. The company is leveraging AI architectures similar to those used in self-driving cars and rocket landing for biological design, focusing on real-time sensitivities in nature's evolving mutational landscape. The team consists of mission-driven software engineers from Palantir and applied biological ML engineers from MIT's Broad Institute and DeepMind. Operations at Valthos is a critical function responsible for the company's smooth functioning, encompassing office management, fundraising, customer relations, and building operational infrastructure. This generalist role requires an individual who can handle diverse tasks, from troubleshooting office issues to building financial models and managing vendor onboarding. The role offers the opportunity to work directly with the head of operations and founders on high-leverage problems, owning projects end-to-end across various functions like finance, recruiting, people operations, legal, facilities, and IT. As the company grows, this role has the potential to define and seed new functions within Valthos. The position is ideal for individuals aspiring to be entrepreneurs, future operators, or to build the operating spine of a category-defining company, offering a steep learning curve in problem-solving, decision-making, and execution.

Requirements

• 3+ years in a high-ownership, high-tempo operational role, such as early-stage startup operator, chief of staff, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or venture capital
• Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end in ambiguous environments, with minimal structure and minimal supervision
• Strong financial and analytical fluency; comfortable building models in Excel, running scenario analyses, and reasoning from numbers under time pressure
• Exceptional written and verbal communication. You will draft memos, investor updates, and internal and external materials that need to meet the bar of the most senior people in the room
• High attention to detail and organization. You are the kind of person who makes sure the details no one else is tracking are handled
• High ownership and a bias to action. You would rather unblock the team by fixing something yourself than wait for someone else to do it
• Comfort operating across extremes: one hour on the floor of the office, the next with a senior government stakeholder or a top-tier investor
• Willingness to travel when needed, including to customer sites

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a high-growth startup, ideally as one of the first non-engineering hires
• Experience setting up finance and people ops systems from scratch
• Experience with early-stage fundraising
• Experience in defense tech, national security, or government contracting is a plus, but not required

Responsibilities

• Own the company's day-to-day operations: facilities, IT, office management, vendor management, travel, and anything else required to keep the team productive
• Build the financial backbone of the company: construct and maintain financial models, scenario-plan budget and runway, partner with external accounting on close, and run spend, payroll, and treasury as needed
• Stand up core business infrastructure, including equity administration, benefits, payroll, corporate policies, compliance, and vendor systems, choosing tools pragmatically and replacing them when we outgrow them
• Support recruiting and people operations end-to-end: source candidates, run scheduling, manage offers and onboarding, and help architect the culture and operating cadence of the company
• Lead special projects that do not fit neatly into anyone else's job description, from standing up security and clearance workflows, to opening a new office, to running internal offsites and all-hands
• Provide operational support to commercial and government engagements as needed, helping the team move proposals, contracts, and procurement workflows across the finish line
• Serve as the operational face of Valthos with external partners (investors, regulators, contractors, and vendors), and represent the company with the same bar of care as a founder would
• Close the feedback loop between the team and our partners: translate what you learn from investors, customers, and vendors into the decisions and priorities that shape how we run

What This Job Offers

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