Business Operations Associate

Polymer; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Rune is building modular micro data centers at solar sites and seeks a Business Operations Associate in Mountain View to establish the compliance, reporting, and administrative backbone across functions. You’ll work across operations, legal, people, and facilities, driving KPI reporting, office setups, vendor selection, and scalable processes to accelerate growth.

Ideal candidates have 1–3 years in ops, are highly organized, and excel at communication and handling confidential information in a

Qualifications

• 1–3 years in operations, consulting, or a generalist role at a startup or fast-moving team.
• Ability to own ambiguous problems and drive them to completion.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and deadlines.
• Clear, direct written and verbal communication with teammates and vendors.
• Comfort handling confidential financial, legal, and employee information.

Responsibilities

• Own operational projects end to end, from problem definition to implementation and handoff.
• Support corporate and regulatory compliance across jurisdictions Rune operates in.
• Lead KPI reporting: design scorecards and prepare leadership-ready reports.
• Design lightweight processes and systems to scale data collection and ops.
• Keep the office and team running: workspace, IT, security, vendors, and logistics.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Organizational skills

Decision making

Communication

Adaptability

Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance

Tools

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

Job description

Business Operations Associate

Location: Mountain View, CA

About Rune:

Every solar and wind power plant is a latent data center. Rune connects wasted power to the compute that needs it. Solar plants generate electricity the grid can't take: clipped by inverters, curtailed by operators, gone before it ever reaches a meter. Meanwhile, AI needs more power than new construction can deliver in time.

Rune deploys hardware, software, and financial solutions to put this power to work. We build modular micro data centers that install directly at solar sites, bypassing the traditional grid entirely and turning stranded power into compute. We're backed by Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Lowercarbon Capital.

The Role:

Rune is building physical infrastructure across multiple states and countries, and every new site, partner, and hire adds to the operational surface area of the company. The Business Operations Associate stays ahead of that growth: building the compliance, reporting, and administrative backbone Rune runs on, and taking on the high-priority projects that sit between functions.

You’ll work across operations, legal, people, and facilities, often in the same day. Some days that means developing and refining the company’s KPI scorecard. Other weeks it means standing up a new office, supporting diligence for financing, or designing a process so a growing team can move faster.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own operational projects end to end, from defining the problem to implementing the solution to handing off clean ownership, across areas like office build-outs, vendor selection, and reporting requests.
• Support the business operating infrastructure of the company: corporate and regulatory compliance across every jurisdiction where Rune operates
• Lead company KPI reporting: gather inputs across teams, design the scorecard, and prepare clear, decision-ready reporting for leadership.
• Design lightweight processes and systems across the organization to support improved data collection and scale-up of the company
• Keep the office and team running: workspace, IT and connectivity, security and access, vendors and subscriptions, and logistics.

Ideal Qualifications:

• 1–3 years in operations, consulting, or a generalist role at a startup or fast-moving team; bachelor's degree in business, finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• A record of taking ownership of ambiguous problems and getting them to done without waiting to be told how.
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the follow-through to keep many deadlines moving at once.
• Sound judgment on what matters most and what can wait, and comfort making calls with incomplete information.
• Clear, direct written and verbal communication with teammates, vendors, and outside advisors.
• Strong working knowledge of Google Workspace or Microsoft Office, especially spreadsheets; quick to pick up new tools.
• Discretion with confidential financial, legal, and employee information.
• Energized by early-stage building and by being the person others rely on to make things happen.

What We Offer:

Competitive base and strategic ownership in what we believe will be one of the largest infrastructure build-outs of the decade.

Rune is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.