Ops Manager | Gamification + Education Startup

Gizmo; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Gizmo, a rapidly growing startup, seeks a sharp Operations hire to support its mission of making learning accessible. You'll collaborate directly with founders to manage people ops, finance, and processes, ensuring the team can thrive. This hybrid role offers a competitive salary and equity, along with a chance to shape the company's future.

Benefits

Work directly with founders

Competitive salary + equity

Front-row seat in a fast-growing startup

Qualifications

• Experience in HR and finance functions in a fast-growing startup.
• Passion for efficient learning, gamification or ed-tech.

Responsibilities

• Own recruiting pipelines, onboarding, payroll, contracts and compliance.
• Run day-to-day bookkeeping, invoices, expenses, FP&A and cash-flow forecasting.
• Design lightweight, scalable processes and keep policies tidy.

Skills

Exceptional ability

Clear communicator

Job description

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 love turning chaos into clockwork and will work hard for a chance at glory
• You 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.