Business Operations Analyst

madhive; United States; On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Madhive in New York City seeks a highly analytical Business Operations Analyst to partner directly with the CEO, translating ideas into structured plans and executive-ready materials while driving high-priority initiatives from concept through completion. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and project leadership.

You will shape board materials, leadership presentations, and company-wide initiatives, ensuring alignment, accountability, and measurable progress across teams.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in adtech, digital media, programmatic, or related field; strategy or operations focus.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects from strategy to execution with measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical and structured thinking; turns data into executive narratives.
• Exceptional Google Slides skills for board/investor materials from scratch.
• Comfort working with revenue, product, and financial data to inform decisions.
• Highly organized with project management discipline and risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO to translate ideas into structured narratives, plans, and board-ready materials.
• Build executive decks for board meetings, investor updates, and leadership offsites.
• Define scope, milestones, owners, and success metrics for cross-functional initiatives.
• Drive end-to-end project management for CEO priorities, meet timelines, manage risks.
• Establish operating cadences, tracking mechanisms, and reporting structures for high-impact initiatives.
• Synthesize complex information into clear actionable insights.
• Analyze business performance data to inform decisions and identify risks or opportunities.
• Prepare briefing materials for internal and external meetings.
• Identify operational gaps and implement scalable solutions.
• Act as connective tissue across departments to align on CEO priorities.

Skills

Adtech experience

Strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive storytelling

Project management

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Tools

Google Slides

Job description

Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media professionals build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses. Madhive empowers sales teams to extend their reach into streaming and connects local advertisers with the communities they serve. Madhive's platform provides the unique ability to reach local audiences at national scale, with premium supply partnerships and end-to-end tools for planning, targeting, and measuring full-funnel campaign outcomes. Powering campaigns for over 30,000 small and medium businesses per day, Madhive is driving the evolution of local media.

We are seeking a highly analytical, structured, and execution-oriented Business Operations Analyst to partner directly with the CEO. This individual will serve as a force multiplier, translating ideas into structured plans, building executive-ready materials, and driving high-priority initiatives from concept through completion.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and hands-on project leadership. You will help shape board materials, leadership presentations, and company-wide initiatives while ensuring alignment, accountability, and measurable progress across teams.

This role will be based in our NYC office, with an expectation of 4 - 5 days per week on-site.

What You’ll Do

• Partner closely with the CEO to translate ideas into structured narratives, strategic plans, and presentation materials
• Build and own executive-level decks for board meetings, investor updates, and leadership offsites
• Assist with cross-functional strategic initiatives, defining scope, milestones, owners, and success metrics
• Drive end-to-end project management for CEO-sponsored priorities, ensuring timelines are met and risks are proactively managed
• Establish clear operating cadences, tracking mechanisms, and reporting structures for high-impact initiatives
• Conduct research and synthesize complex information into clear actionable insights
• Analyze business performance data to inform decision-making and highlight risks or opportunities
• Prepare briefing materials ahead of key internal and external meetings
• Identify operational gaps and implement scalable solutions
• Act as connective tissue across departments to maintain alignment on CEO priorities

Who You Are

• 2-4 years of experience, preferably in adtech, digital media, programmatic, or a closely related ecosystem, ideally in strategy, business operations, revenue operations, consulting, or similar execution-heavy roles
• Proven experience leading cross-functional projects from strategy through execution, with clear examples of driving outcomes
• Strong analytical and structured thinking skills with the ability to synthesize business performance data into clear executive narratives
• Exceptional Google Slides skills, with experience building board-level, investor, and executive-facing materials from scratch
• Comfortable working directly with revenue, product, and financial data to inform decision-making
• Highly organized with strong project management discipline, including defining milestones, managing stakeholders, and mitigating risk
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-moving, high-growth environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Low ego, high ownership, and strong accountability

The approximate compensation range for this position is $95,000-$120,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors, including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.

We are Madhive

Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that's important. Whether it's taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact.

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.