Strategy & Ops - Risk

Deblock; France; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + stock options

Private dental + health insurance

25 days paid holidays

100% remote option or office

Ability to work abroad for 4 months a

Job summary

Deblock seeks a Strategy & Ops Manager to act as the engine room of the business, partnering with founders and the General Manager. You will drive strategic problem solving, risk foundations, and cross-functional execution across compliance, legal, product, and operations.

You will design scalable governance processes, oversee outsourcing frameworks, and enable efficient service delivery using data-driven analysis.

Qualifications

• STEM degree required.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to leverage data to solve problems.
• Excellent prioritisation and highly organized, a project management pro.
• Experience designing and maintaining governance processes across operations and product scopes.
• Team player with collaboration and no-blame mindset in a cross‑functional compliance environment.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose complex operational and regulatory challenges and drive solutions to completion.
• Build and own frameworks to manage inter-group outsourcing services, performance, risk, and strategic service ownership.
• Coordinate delivery across compliance, legal, product, and operations to ship first-in-class products.
• Design and implement scalable operational controls spanning vendor due diligence, risk monitoring, and service performance.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data-driven problem solving

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Workflow design

Education

STEM degree

Job description

As a Strategy & Ops Manager, you are the engine room of the business. You will work along side the founders, and General Manager of Deblock SAS.

Your speed, efficiency, and eye for detail will drive success across the Deblock product. You are self-guided and are driven to solve problems which define an industry.

We want to revolutionise the FinTech industry. Create a new paradigm. And we need the best minds to do it

What you’ll be working on

• Strategic problem-solving: Diagnose complex operational and regulatory challenges, frame solutions from first principles, and drive them to completion
• Outsourcing & risk foundations: Build and own frameworks to manage inter-group outsourcing services: Performance management, risk assessment, and strategic ownership of service execution.
• Cross-functional execution: Coordinate delivery across compliance, legal, product, and operations to deliver first-in-class products.
• Workflow and systems design Design and implement scalable operational controls spanning vendor due diligence pipelines, risk monitoring, and service performance using RAG pipelines, reasoning systems, and agentic automation.

Requirements

What we are looking for

• STEM degree
• Love to learn and are innately curious
• Strong analytical skills and ability to leverage data to solve problems
• Ruthless prioritisation skills and incredibly organised, a project management pro
• Workflow builder: Track record of designing and maintaining scalable governance processes across operations and product scopes.
• Team player: collaboration, no-blame-game mindset, essential in a cross-functional compliance environment
• Based in France

What will make you stand out

• 2+ years of experience in the FinTech industry
• Experience with regulated environments
• Experience in fast-growing start-up or scale-up companies
• Experience with product governance and risk management
• Track record of end-to-end project delivery

Benefits

What you’ll get

• Competitive salary + stock options
• Private dental + health insurance
• The best tech for your job
• 25 days of paid holidays (excl. bank holidays)
• Option to work 100% remotely or come to the office - your choice!
• Ability to work abroad for 4 months a year

Disclaimer

Please note that we are unable to offer visa or work permit sponsorship for this role. Candidates must already have the legal right to work in the country from which they are applying and intend to work.