Founding Strategy & Operations Generalist
Location: San Francisco, CA
Compensation: $130,000–$180,000
Experience: 2–4 years out of school | Level: Associate | Reports to: CEO | Openings: 1
Our Ref: GEN-0017 | Client Ref: 4R4975XV
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About the Company
An AI fintech startup that recently raised its Series A.
The Role
The company is hiring a Founding Strategy & Operations Generalist. You will work directly with the CEO as a high-agency, analytical generalist tackling the company's hardest problems, starting with recruiting and expanding into sales, pricing, finance, and whatever the company needs most.
Key Responsibilities
- Own strategic recruiting: build out the hiring process, manage the pipeline, and help the company triple headcount without lowering the bar
- Take on generalist business operations, including contract review, billing, managing the accounting firm, light financial modeling, and insurance and admin tasks
- Work on strategic projects such as pricing model development and new revenue motions as they come up
- Build AI tools, agents, and automations to take as much work off humans as possible
- Serve as a junior chief of staff: take ambiguous problems with clear outcomes and figure out how to solve them independently
Requirements
- 2-4 years out of school at a top consulting firm (MBB, Deloitte, Accenture, Oliver Wyman, EY-Parthenon), in finance (investment banking or PE), or in an operating role at a venture-backed startup
- Strong analytical skills; you must pass a rigorous live analytical screen with the CEO involving data reasoning and structured problem-solving
- Genuinely fluent with AI tools: a daily user who has built automations or agents yourself, not just an enthusiast
- A high-agency generalist who thrives on ambiguity and does not need structured guidance to be productive (dealbreaker)
Background
- Archetype 1: consulting at MBB, or investment banking or PE at a top firm (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, TPG, Centerview, and similar)
- Archetype 2: strategy or operations at a fast-growing, venture-backed startup
- A degree from a top-25 university (MIT, Berkeley, UChicago, Ivy League, and similar) is the baseline
- Strong financial modeling skills (nice to have)
- A quantitative degree in math, econ, or CS (nice to have)
Interested? Apply for this role (Ref GEN-0017)