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Operations Lead

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 3 or more years building products or processes at a bank, fintech, payments, or crypto company, or tier-1 consulting experience with regulated financial services exposure.
  • Production automations or agents shipped and running in live environments today.
  • Hands-on experience performing operational work such as queue management, case handling, or transaction processing.
  • Experience designing end-to-end operational domains including process design, SOP creation, KPI definition, and tooling selection.

Responsibilities

  • Own one operational domain end-to-end: customer operations, payment operations, or fincrime operations.
  • Perform the manual work yourself in the first couple of months to identify process breaks.
  • Ship the first wave of automations within a few months and drive measurable volume lift.
  • Scale agents across your domain so that humans handle only the highest-risk decisions.

Key facts

  • Remote from: New York (USA)
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • Operations Lead
  • 180 - 220K yearly
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Adaptability

About the company

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Job description

About the Role

This is an end-to-end ownership role over a core operational domain, reporting directly to the COO at an AI-native, stablecoin-based clearing and banking platform built for global fintechs and financial institutions. You will design, automate, and scale the systems that make operations run hands-off, measuring success by volume growth with flat headcount rather than team size.

What You'll Do

  • Own one operational domain end-to-end: customer operations, payment operations, or fincrime operations, running it like a product team from day one.

  • Perform the manual work yourself in the first couple of months, sitting in the queue to identify exactly where processes break and defining the KPIs that prove the system works.

  • Ship the first wave of automations within a few months, proving the operating model on a live cohort and driving measurable volume lift.

  • Scale agents across your domain so that humans handle only the highest-risk decisions while the long tail runs hands-off.

  • Spec agents and shape tooling directly alongside Engineering and Product, collaborating on real decisions rather than filing tickets.

  • Draft, defend, and continuously improve escalation paths, SOPs, and operational metrics.

What We're Looking For

  • 3 or more years building products or processes at a bank, fintech, payments, or crypto company, or tier-1 consulting experience with regulated financial services exposure.

  • Production automations or agents shipped and running in live environments today, not proofs of concept.

  • Hands-on experience performing operational work such as queue management, case handling, or transaction processing to understand process pain points firsthand.

  • Experience designing end-to-end operational domains including process design, SOP creation, KPI definition, and tooling selection.

  • Strong background working directly with engineering and product teams to spec and build operational tooling and systems.

  • Familiarity with compliance, risk, fincrime, payment operations, clearing, or settlement workflows is a strong plus.

  • Experience with AI agents, LLMs, or intelligent automation systems is a plus.

  • Automation-first mindset: your first instinct is to build a system, not to add headcount.

  • High agency, ownership mentality, and comfort operating in ambiguity without an established playbook.

  • Based in New York or willing to relocate.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $220,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in New York, NY, USA.

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