Business Operations Lead

The Role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a trusted operating partner to the senior leadership team, taking on varied, cross-functional work that keeps priorities aligned and projects moving. The position combines operations, commercial support, partner management and financial analysis, with a path toward a wider leadership position.

What You'll Do

• Manage daily operations, partner communications and pilot programs so executives can concentrate on strategy.
• Set priorities across initiatives, monitor key metrics and keep the team informed.
• Lead commercial efforts, partnership due diligence and vendor onboarding from start to finish.
• Create the financial model, board materials and analysis that inform major business decisions.
• Help shape a future executive support function, including hiring junior project staff if justified.

What We're Looking For

• 5 to 6+ years of experience, ideally pairing management consulting with hands-on operating work in a fast-growing technology company.
• Either 2 to 4 years of consulting followed by an operating role at a high-growth startup, or 5+ years in operations, strategy or founding work at a startup or scale-up.
• Experience building and scaling commercial, sales or business development operations at an early-stage B2B company.
• A record of taking unclear projects through to measurable results, with a clear account of your own personal impact.
• Time spent in a single organization leading a function through a period of growth.
• An undergraduate degree from a highly competitive university.
• Strong initiative: you identify what needs attention, act without waiting to be told and offer firm recommendations.
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills, with a methodical approach to breaking down complex issues.
• Comfort with early-stage uncertainty and a preference for equity upside over maximizing cash pay.
• Based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate, and able to work in the office full time.

Bonus Points

• MBA from a leading program.
• Regular use of AI tools to automate and enhance daily work.

Location And Work Model

• San Mateo, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week in office
• Full-time

Compensation, As The Posting Describes It

• Equity