Founding Operator France

Crane Venture Partners; Paris; Sur place; EUR 130 000 - 170 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Learning and development budget

Home office stipend

Free phone and international data plan

Résumé du poste

Crane Venture Partners is seeking a Founding Operator to establish operations in France. This role is crucial for building the operational foundation from scratch, ensuring compliance with regulations, and collaborating with internal teams to launch successfully.

The ideal candidate must have over 5 years of experience in market expansion, operations, or consulting, preferably in fintech or telecom. Fluency in French is required. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered, including stock options and stipends for home office setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in market expansion, operations, or consulting at a high-growth tech company, ideally in fintech or telecom.
• Experience launching markets, products, or operations from zero.
• Ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams without losing focus.

Responsabilités

• Own the operational and regulatory launch plan for France.
• Set up legal entities, billing, and compliance.
• Lead the regulatory entry process and approvals.
• Coordinate across teams to align timelines and projects.
• Manage relationships with local carriers and vendors.
• Document market playbook for future launches.
• Define success metrics for the market.

Connaissances

Market expansion expertise

Operational experience

Consulting skills

Fluency in French

Analytical and decisive decision-making

Description du poste

The Role

As a Founding Operator at Gigs, you're the founding member of our operations in France.

You're accountable for launching into a country where Gigs has never operated, building the operational foundation from scratch and embedding it into our centralized platform teams. Alongside your GTM counterpart, you’ll build Gigs local presence from zero to an operational, thriving, and compliant business, replicating our best‑practices from existing markets and establishing new ones.

You're earning Gigs the right to operate in France and building the engine room the rest of the business runs on. You're the one person who holds the full operational and regulatory picture in‑country, and the local face of Gigs to regulators, carriers, and infrastructure partners. As the business grows, you'll have the opportunity to build a local team around you and shape how operations function in France for the long run.

Salary range

• EU: €130,000 - 170,000

(The final offer depends on your background, skills, and how you perform through the process. We're open to considering outlier candidates, which may result in an adjustment to the scope and compensation)

What You Will Do

• Own the end‑to‑end operational and regulatory launch plan for France: sequencing workstreams, tracking milestones, surfacing risks before they become delays
• Stand up the operational foundation: legal entity setup, billing and tax structure, data compliance, local ops infrastructure, testing, and any market‑specific product requirements
• Lead the regulatory entry process: map required authorizations (MVNO/reseller, local entity, etc.), build the in‑country regulator relationship, and drive approvals to completion
• Coordinate across internal specialists—supply, legal, finance, product, engineering—to keep all teams aligned, unblocked, and moving to the same timeline. Partner closely with the GTM Lead France so operational readiness and commercial launch move in lockstep
• Own the long‑term operational relationship with our local carrier and vendor partners—integration, SLAs, ongoing performance, commercial reviews, and escalations
• Build and document the market playbook so each launch is faster and smarter than the last
• Define what "success" looks like for the market from launch to scale

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in market expansion, operations, or consulting at a high‑growth tech company, ideally in fintech, payments, or telecom (or another regulated vertical where you had to earn the right to operate)
• A track record of launching something from zero: you’ve owned a market, country, or product launch end‑to‑end and had a real outcome to defend
• Structured and relentless as a project driver: you hold multiple parallel workstreams (regulatory, technical, commercial, people) without losing the thread, and surface blockers before they become delays
• Analytically sharp and decisive: you make sound calls with incomplete information, document your reasoning, and adjust fast when you’re wrong
• Direct experience operating across multiple countries or jurisdictions is required; candidates without genuine international operational experience will struggle in this role
• Can easily flex between driving in granular government licensing meetings and cross‑functional planning sessions
• Fluent in French (required); additional European or globally relevant languages are a plus

What We Offer

At Gigs, we believe in rewarding excellence. We offer competitive compensation and stock options because we see you as a true partner in our growth. We also provide stipends for your home office or work setup, a budget for learning and development to fuel your career, and of course, a free phone and international data plan