Top 478 Operations lead Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area Ca

Business Operations Lead
Prelim —San Francisco, CA
- $170,000 - $180,000 a year
- Full-time
- 3 years
- Senior level
- Communication skills
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
2d
Executive Operations Lead
VSCO —San Francisco, CA
- $150,000 - $175,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- 5 years
- Office
- Senior level
- AD&D insurance
- Paid holidays
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Office & Workplace Lead
Broccoli AI —San Francisco, CA
- $105,000 - $120,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hospitality
- Google Workspace
- Mid-level
13d
Executive Office Strategy and Operations Lead, YouTube Business
YouTube —San Bruno, CA
- $152,000 - $222,000 a year
- Full-time
- Office
- SQL
- Bachelor's degree
People Operations Lead
Reducto —San Francisco, CA
- $150,000 - $180,000 a year
- Full-time
- 5 years
- Office
- Senior level
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
Data Operations Lead
Happyrobot Inc. —San Francisco, CA
- $180,000 - $240,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Continuous improvement
- Training & development
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
Research Operations Lead, Biology
Anthropic —San Francisco, CA
- $150,000 - $200,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Office
- Supervising experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Parental leave
- Flexible schedule
6d
Regional Site Security Lead, Deployment & Ops
FluidStack —San Francisco, CA
- $175,000 - $250,000 a year
- Email
- 8 years
- Fair chance
- Senior level
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
Client Operations Lead
Listen Labs —San Francisco, CA
- $90,000 - $110,000 a year
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- Recruiting
- Communication skills
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
Customer Education, Content & Systems Operations Lead
OpenAI —San Francisco, CA
- $207,000 - $230,000 a year
- Full-time
- 8 years
- Fair chance
- Senior level
Travel Operations Lead
OpenAI —San Francisco, CA
- $216,000 - $240,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- 7 years
- Office
- Continuous improvement
Facilities Operations Lead - Stargate
OpenAI —San Francisco, CA
- $159,000 - $285,000 a year
- Full-time
- Fair chance
- Senior level
- Commercial
Strategy and Operations Lead, gTech GTM
Google —San Bruno, CA
- $152,000 - $222,000 a year
- Full-time
- 6 years
- Office
- Bachelor's degree
IT Operations Lead
Squint —San Francisco, CA
- $120,000 - $150,000 a year
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- Office
- Organizational skills
- Free parking
- Commuter assistance
3d
Operations Lead
Exploration Technology Group —San Francisco, CA
- $55,000 - $90,000 a year
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- High school diploma or GED
- Bachelor's degree
Quick Apply
Strategy and Operations Lead
Google —San Francisco, CA
- $152,000 - $222,000 a year
- Full-time
- Sales
- Office
- Analysis skills
6d
Strategic Operations Lead, Office of the CEO
Nscale —San Francisco, CA
- $180,000 - $280,000 a year
- 5 years
- Office
- Senior level
Quick Apply
IT Support Lead
HP IQ —San Francisco, CA
- $150,000 - $236,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Google Workspace
- Windows
- Senior level
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
Lead Operations Clerk
University of California San Francisco —San Francisco, CA
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
- Management
- English
Strategic Operations Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations
OpenAI —San Francisco, CA
- $252,000 - $335,000 a year
- Full-time
- Office
- 8 years
- SQL

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Business Operations Lead

Prelim -
San Francisco, CA

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Job Details

Full-time
$170,000 - $180,000 a year
2 days ago

Benefits

Work from home stipend
Unlimited paid time off
Dental insurance
401(k)
Paid time off
Parental leave
Vision insurance

Qualifications

Notion
Project team coordination
Project reporting
Office activity coordination
Mixpanel
Business travel arrangements
Logistics management
Project documentation
Startup experience
Enterprise software
Spreadsheets
Operations coordination planning
Slack
Vendor coordination
Process design
3 years
Schedule management
Collaboration with product development teams
B2B business model
Project delivery management
Vendor relationship management
B2B
Leading team collaboration initiatives
Meeting facilitation
Capacity planning
Red flag analysis
Senior level
Escalation handling
Cross-functional team management
Process management

Full Job Description

Prelim is growing 2-3x annually and our platform powers account opening and onboarding for banks across the country. Our team is at a turning point: the informal systems that got us here won’t scale with where we’re headed next.

Right now, the work of coordinating across teams, tracking projects, and keeping the company’s operational rhythm running falls on engineers, designers, and product leads. That’s not sustainable, and we know it.

As our first Business Operations hire, you’ll build the operational infrastructure from scratch. There’s no playbook, no existing business ops team, and no predecessor in the role. You’ll decide what to systematize first, build processes that scale, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks while the company continues to grow rapidly.

If you want to shape how a fintech startup scales, this is your chance to make a huge impact.

What You'll Own

Cross-team coordination. You'll maintain the picture of who's working on what across product, design, engineering, and implementations. When a new bank comes in, you're the person who looks at current allocation, identifies who has capacity, and presents staffing options, not the founder doing it from memory in a Slack DM.
Workload visibility and risk tracking. You’ll build and run a lightweight system so leadership has a weekly view of team load, active work, and delivery risk. You surface early warning signs like stalled projects, overloaded teams, or unanswered customer concerns. The goal is to surface problems before they become emergencies.
Operational rhythm. Leads syncs have agendas. Cycle kickoffs happen on schedule. Action items from meetings get tracked and followed up on. OOO plans are documented. 90-day reviews get scheduled. You own the cadence that keeps the company running smoothly.
Staffing and project coordination. When projects need to be reassigned, when someone goes on PTO, when a customer escalation needs routing, you're the person who makes sure the handoff happens and nothing gets dropped. You maintain the map of who covers what, and you update it in real time.
Vendor and logistics management. Office space coordination, software contracts, expense approvals, travel booking for offsites and team meetups in collaboration with People Operations. This work is real, it takes real hours, and it currently lands on people who should be building product.

What You Won't Own

You're not a people manager, team leads manage their own reports. You're not making product decisions, the founder and product leads own the roadmap. You're not doing the work itself, you're making sure the people who do have what they need and that nothing falls through cracks.

What We're Looking For

3-6 years of experience at a startup that scaled through the 15-to-80 person range. You've lived through the transition from "everyone does everything" to "we need real structure," and you know what works and what's overkill at each stage.
You've held a role where you were responsible for cross-functional coordination. Titles you might have held include ops manager, business operations, chief of staff, program manager, or a senior role at a consulting firm. The title matters less than whether you were the person who kept the trains running.
You're a strong writer and communicator. You'll create the operational documentation that doesn't exist yet, staffing plans, project trackers, meeting agendas, status reports, process docs. If you can't write clearly and concisely, everything you produce will be ignored.
You're relentlessly organized without being bureaucratic. You add just enough structure that things don't fall through cracks, but you know the difference between useful process and process for its own sake.
You're comfortable with ambiguity. In the first month, you might be updating a project board, chasing down a dropped support ticket, organizing travel for an offsite, and building a staffing spreadsheet, all in the same day. If that mix of variety and ownership sounds exciting, you'll feel right at home here.
You're direct and unintimidated. You'll need to tell a team lead "your team is overloaded and we need to cut something" and tell the founder "you committed to something we don't have capacity for." This role requires comfort with giving direct and thoughtful feedback.

Nice to Have, Not Required

Experience in B2B, enterprise software, or fintech
Familiarity with tools like Linear, Notion, Pylon, Mixpanel
Experience supporting a technical team (engineering, design, product)

What You Won't Find in This Role

This isn't a back-office position. You'll work directly with the founder and team leads daily. You'll have visibility into every part of the company. The decisions you enable and the problems you catch will directly affect whether this company scales well or burns out its best people.

How You'll Know It's Working

A month in, the founder stops being the person who's asked "who's covering this." Two months in, there's a weekly snapshot of team load that didn't exist before. Three months in, problems get surfaced in a regular report before they become emergencies. Six months in, a new bank comes in and the staffing conversation takes fifteen minutes instead of a week of ad hoc huddles.

About Prelim

Prelim is a San Francisco and New York City-based startup that operates with fully remote positions across the US, helping banks onboard their customers. Our platform is designed to streamline the account opening process for both consumers and businesses, accelerating speed-to-market and enhancing the customer experience for financial institutions. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the banking industry, we encourage you to apply and join our team at Prelim. We are seeking individuals who are driven, ambitious, and eager to make a real impact in a traditional industry ready for technological innovation.

We offer equity, a sponsored 401K, parental leave, and fully paid health, vision, and dental insurance. Additional benefits include unlimited PTO, a remote work stipend, a life-style stipend, and twice-yearly company retreats. This role would also attend periodic team meetups in NYC and SF.

Prelim values diversity and inclusion; people of all backgrounds are welcome to join our mission to transform banking.

Compensation Range: $170K - $180K

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