Business Operations Manager
About Our Client
Join the Future of Commerce! This organization is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. It’s redefining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a unique experience. As a remote co-located team, the organization is inspired by innovation and anchored in its values. With hubs in the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, and Poland, the team is building the future of online marketplaces.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, the live auctions have something for everyone.
Our client is just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, it’s looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.
About The Role
The Business Operations Manager plays a significant role in building the functions to unlock growth and help the organization scale. Working directly with the leadership team, this role will work cross-functionally to lead large, critical initiatives and solve complicated, unstructured problems.
This role is a terrific introduction to the organization, and allows impactful individuals to learn about the business while contributing to a variety of high-impact, critical initiatives.
- Act as a strategic partner to leadership, driving high-impact business initiatives and collaborating closely with leadership to inform decision-making
- Lead and execute key cross-functional initiatives, to scale functions and build solutions
- Proactively identify inhibitors to growth
- Define and measure critical important metrics
You
Curious about who thrives here? It’s been found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way. As the next Business Operations Manager, you should have 5-6+ years experience in consulting, investment banking/private equity, or a fast-growing startup, plus:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, or related field
- Motivation to take on new opportunities and challenges
- Ability to move remarkably fast with little structure, guidance
- Curiosity to learn about different parts of the business and how to pull certain levers to grow faster
- Ability to operate independently and go deep on projects while also building key cross collaborative relationships across the organization
- Demonstrated ability to work and influence cross-functionally. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board. You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment
- Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems using data and process improvement
Nice to Have
- Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform
- Experience or passion for buying and selling in online marketplaces communities
- MBA
- SQL & Dashboard experience
Benefits
- Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Care benefits
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
Compensation
$160K — $210K • Offers Equity
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