Business Operations

Light; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A sustainable energy company in Austin, TX, seeks a BizOps professional who will drive partner growth and build data infrastructures to optimize operations. You will collaborate with founders and develop strategic frameworks that enhance partner performance. Candidates should have over 4 years of relevant experience in a high-growth startup, be analytically rigorous, and capable of clear communication. This is an in-person role requiring a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing metrics and dashboards.
• Proven ability to convert analysis into systems.
• Ability to manage stakeholder communication effectively.

Responsibilities

• Drive partner growth through experiments and analyses.
• Design and execute research programs to optimize strategies.
• Create scalable playbooks based on insights.
• Build data infrastructure for measuring partner health.

Skills

Operational excellence

Analytical skills

Client communication

Structured thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

4+ years in operations, strategy, or related field

Job description

Overview

Light is building the digital energy infrastructure for a dynamic, sustainable future. The world is electrifying; Light is creating ways to connect to power and offer branded electricity plans through a utility-as-API platform. Our mission is to power a sustainable and abundant energy future for everyone, making clean energy convenient for customers by embedding power with the products they already use.

The role: BizOps at Light is the central nervous system of the company’s growth. You’ll work directly alongside the founders and a small, high-output team to build the analytical engine and operational systems that power every major decision: identifying attractive verticals, shaping pricing strategy, charting expansion, and turning one-off wins into repeatable playbooks. Light is expanding into new states and verticals, building pricing into a first-class strategic capability, and scaling a partner model across solar, real estate, and EV charging. This role puts you at the center of all of it—shaping strategy with founders and partners, then executing at your desk.

In your first six months, you will:

• Drive partner growth, directly with partners. Run experiments, deep-dive analyses, and strategic sprints that move enrollment and revenue across our partner portfolio. You’ll own the full cycle from hypothesis to recommendation to implementation—and you’ll be in the room with partner teams co-developing the strategy, not just handing over a deck.
• Run real experiments. Design and execute structured research programs—conjoint analyses, MaxDiff studies, survey experiments, in-flow tests—to answer questions that drive plan design, messaging, and go-to-market strategy. We treat experimentation as a first-class capability.
• Codify what works into scalable playbooks. Turn learnings into repeatable frameworks so that every new partner launch is better than the last.
• Build the data and measurement infrastructure. Design metrics, dashboards, and reporting that give real-time visibility into partner health, funnel performance, and portfolio-level KPIs. Help move Light from scrappy spreadsheets to proper data tooling.

In six months, success looks like:

Light has a clear, data-backed view of partner performance across the portfolio, a repeatable growth playbook, and an experimentation cadence that other teams want to plug into.

You would describe yourself as:

• An operator who ships. You turn analysis into systems and processes, thrive in sprint formats, know when "good enough" is the right call, and bring creative initiative to compress timelines.
• Analytically rigorous. You build models from messy data, design and interpret experiments, and translate numbers into decisions.
• Client-ready. You produce clean, logically sound materials you’re confident putting in front of a partner CEO, with clear narratives and high-quality written and visual communication.
• A structured thinker in unstructured environments. You build frameworks that others can adopt and use.
• Cross-functionally fluent. You earn trust with engineering, product, sales, and operations teams, translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders and shipping work without formal authority.
• 4+ years in operations, strategy & ops, consulting, chief of staff, or a similar high-ownership role—ideally at a high-growth startup or in a setting where you built systems rather than inherited them.
• Based in Austin, TX. This role is in-person.

This is an early-team, high-ownership role. If that’s what you’re looking for, reach out at [e-mail] — tell us what you’ve built and why this is the right next thing.