Strategic Operations Associate

Alpha Origin•Washington, DC

1d•$140,000 - $160,000

About The Position

The Strategic Operations Associate will report to the Head of Strategic Operations and take day-to-day ownership of a major client relationship and coordination of its delivery. Working closely with Alpha Origin’s engineers and client stakeholders, the associate will turn agreed scopes into clear plans, keep work moving, and surface decisions and risks early. The role also spans commercial work and internal operations. As the associate demonstrates sound judgment and dependable execution, they will take on broader operating responsibility, with a path into strategic operations leadership. Alpha Origin is a small, high-trust engineering firm serving critical infrastructure operators. Team members work directly with senior leaders and clients, own outcomes, and can earn broader scope quickly.

Requirements

Experience in management consulting, client delivery, business operations, technical programs, banking or finance, or a combination of these.
Ability to structure unfamiliar problems, develop a point of view, and manage multiple workstreams while maintaining attention to detail and larger objectives.
Examples of taking work from an ambiguous starting point through implementation, coordinating people with different priorities, and following through when plans change.
Confidence working with clients and senior stakeholders.
Clear writing and ability to build useful slides and turn complex information into concise updates or recommendations.
Ability to learn technically complex subjects quickly, ask good questions, and recognize when engineering expertise or senior input is needed.
Comfort with hands-on execution, including analysis, preparing materials, maintaining plans, and follow-through.

Nice To Haves

Management consulting experience, especially when combined with hands-on operating or technical work.
Cybersecurity experience is not required; judgment, curiosity, learning speed, and follow-through are emphasized.
Washington, D.C. location is strongly preferred; candidates prepared to relocate will be considered.

Responsibilities

Turn agreed client scopes into delivery plans with workstreams, owners, milestones, and dependencies.
Coordinate Alpha Origin engineers and client stakeholders, and track commitments through completion.
Run multiple client, commercial, and internal workstreams, set priorities, maintain momentum, and surface scope changes, risks, and blockers with recommendations.
Prepare for and participate in client meetings; create polished slides and written updates, track decisions, and manage follow-through.
Learn enough about technical work to ask useful questions, understand dependencies, and explain progress and tradeoffs accurately; partner with engineers on technical judgments.
Build systems, operating rhythms, and information flows that improve clarity, accountability, and execution speed.
Identify bottlenecks, dropped handoffs, and recurring manual work, and replace them with better processes, tools, or automations.
Use AI tools for research, analysis, client work, and internal execution, and help redesign company operations around them.
Personally perform analysis, prepare materials, maintain plans, and close the loop on work.