AI-Driven Strategy & Operations Leader

Trunk Tools; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Growth stipend

Remote & hybrid options

Free lunch NYC & Austin

Unlimited PTO

In-person retreats

Job summary

Trunk Tools is hiring a Strategy & Operations Manager to wield AI-powered processes across the business, sitting at the intersection of operations, strategy and all business functions. You’ll automate what should be automated, analyze what needs analyzing, and connect the dots across functions that don’t otherwise talk to each other.

This is a builder role with ownership: you’ll decide what to build, prioritize across functions, and ship tooling and answers the whole org depends on.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a hyper-growth startup, vertical SaaS or AI-first environment.
• AI-pilled and fluent with the frontier - you use the latest models, tools, API calls, and MCPs daily, and you know how to turn them into working agentic automations.
• Strong, broad business sense - you can dive into a problem in finance, people, marketing, or GTM, reason about tradeoffs, and figure out what actually moves the needle.
• Exceptional communication - you frame problems clearly, explain your thinking crisply, and translate between technical and commercial audiences.
• A builder's instinct for workflow automation and process - you go from a messy business problem to a working system fast, without waiting for a playbook.
• A product mindset: able to prioritize, scope, and ship the right thing for internal "customers" across the company.
• Comfort in a fast-paced, ambiguous, execution-focused environment where you own outcomes end to end

Responsibilities

• AI-powered automation across the business: turn manual workflows into automated systems and measure progress.
• Cross-functional strategy & analysis: own end-to-end projects, frame the problem, pull data, build the answer, drive decisions.
• AI orchestration & enablement: apply frontier AI to real operating problems, build lightweight agents and automations.
• Process & connective tissue: connect functions by translating messy processes into repeatable systems.

Skills

AI fluency

Cross-functional

Strategic thinking

Communication

Product mindset

Ownership

Tools

Clay

Claude

ChatGPT

Zapier

Job description

Trunk Tools is hiring a Strategy & Operations Manager to wield AI-powered processes across the business, sitting at the intersection of operations, strategy and all business functions. You’ll automate what should be automated, analyze what needs analyzing, and connect the dots across functions that don’t otherwise talk to each other.

This is a builder role with ownership: you’ll decide what to build, prioritize across functions, and ship tooling and answers the whole org depends on.