Ops Manager | Gamification Education Startup

Gizmo; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A gamification education startup seeks an Ops Manager to support rapid growth. In this mid-senior level role, you will collaborate closely with founders, handling operations that enable engineering and product teams to thrive. Responsibilities include finance, compliance, and team operations, promising a chance to shape the future of learning.

Benefits

Competitive salary + equity

Work directly with founders

Opportunity to shape company strategy

Hybrid work option

Qualifications

• Exceptional ability and highly impact-focused.
• Broad skill-set; can switch from numbers to operational tasks.
• Experience in fast-growing startups is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee recruiting pipelines, onboarding, payroll, and compliance.
• Run analytics and create dashboards for strategy.
• Manage bookkeeping, invoices, expenses, and cash-flow forecasting.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Thinking

Project Management

Job description

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Gizmo is a startup on a mission to make learning so easy and fun that anyone can learn anything. We're aiming to help 1 billion people learn by building Duolingo for Anything - a gamified way of learning anything!

We're an early stage well-funded startup that's grown 10X in the last year, with a million users a month. We now need a razor-sharp operator to keep the rocket ship stable. You’ll be our first Ops hire and will work shoulder-to-shoulder with the three founders to build the people, finance and office foundations that let the product and engineering teams fly.

Responsibilities

• People Ops: own recruiting pipelines, onboarding, payroll, contracts and compliance
• Strategy: run analytics and create dashboards to keep us pointed in the right direction
• Finance: run day-to-day bookkeeping, invoices, expenses, FP&A and cash-flow forecasting; coordinate with external accountants and investors.
• Process & Compliance: design lightweight, scalable processes, keep policies tidy and accessible.
• Office & equipment
  
  

Requirements

Only apply if

• You have exceptional ability
• You are highly impact focused and happy to do what it takes to get the business running smoothly
• You want to work hard for a chance at glory
• You have a broad skill-set and can dive deep on numbers one hour and build an onboarding checklist the next
• You are a clear communicator
  
  

Nice-to-haves

• You’ve run HR and finance functions in a fast-growing startup
• Passion for efficient learning, gamification or ed-tech
• Experience scaling headcount from ~10 to 50+
• You’ve founded or co-founded something before
  
  

Benefits

If this is you, you can expect:

• Work directly with all three founders and shape company strategy
• Hybrid: join us 4+ days per week in our London office
• Competitive salary + equity
• A front-row seat in an early, well-funded startup that’s growing insanely fast
  
  

If this sounds like you, let’s chat and build the future of learning together.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Education

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