Head of Strategy and Operations

You will be part of the Strategy and Operations team in the COO office and will work across departments on strategic initiatives. You will report to the Chief Operating Officer and will co-design, own and implement strategic initiatives as well as build the core business functions for scale. Expect to be practical and hands-on.

Responsibilities

  • Drive strategic cross functional initiatives to fast and successful implementation and act as a hands on problem solver and executor.
  • Oversee projects managed by the S&O team and deliver your own projects with a player coach mentality.
  • Lead go to market analysis and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and drive revenue.
  • Identify growth opportunities and help launch operations there including licensing or new products.
  • Build and maintain reporting and analytics capabilities and automate data analytics dashboards to inform decisions.
  • Develop talent operations and internal training to support employee knowledge and professional growth.
  • Deliver operations behind multi disciplinary processes and ensure alignment across departments.
  • Review and negotiate commercial agreements as needed and liaise with investors and external advisors.

Requirements

  • 8-10 years experience in a high performance environment such as management consulting investment banking PE VC backed startup or similar.
  • 2+ years of in house execution experience in trading firms or other crypto firms.
  • Strong problem solving skills both quantitative and qualitative.
  • Hands on and able to drive execution this is not a strategy only role.
  • Strong communication skills able to communicate clearly concisely and listen well.
  • Very structured organized and reliable able to drive urgency and alignment in cross functional projects.
  • Deep understanding of trading and crypto.
  • Ability and interest to learn about new technologies quickly both conceptually and hands on.
  • Top tier MBA is a plus.
  • Experience with data querying languages such as SQL and scripting languages such as Python.
  • Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau and PowerBI.
  • Results driven and able to get things done.