Business Operations Lead

Crux; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Crux is hiring a BizOps Lead to design and deploy automation-first infrastructure in our Business Execution team. This high-impact role blends financial diligence operations with a tool-savvy mindset, eliminating bottlenecks and scaling internal systems to support Crux as it grows.

You’ll partner with Commercial, Growth, Product, and Engineering to implement AI-enabled workflows that accelerate GTM and improve the customer experience, driving scalable service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience designing automation-driven operations to streamline diligence and go-to-market workflows.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across Commercial, Growth, Product, and Engineering.
• Startup mindset with ability to own ambiguous problems and drive rapid execution.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy automation-driven systems to support structured product workflows and diligence efforts.
• Eliminate manual work by building scalable automation for deal evaluation, due diligence, and internal handoffs.
• Own cross-functional service delivery infrastructure across GTM tools to improve precision and reduce manual steps.
• Experiment with scoped MVPs, use off-the-shelf tooling creatively, and iterate toward operational excellence.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate internal processes and customer-facing systems.
• Collaborate with technical and commercial teams to ensure robust, business-aligned systems.
• Instrument systems with data and analytics to track performance and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Automation design

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytics & insights

AI tooling familiarity

Tools

HubSpot

n8n

Claude Code

Omni

Job description

We’re supercharging the clean economy

Crux is the capital markets platform changing the way clean energy and manufacturing projects are financed in the U.S. Crux’s platform, market intelligence, and expert team help developers and manufacturers unlock financing through all stages of project development and operation.

Our team of 45+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.

An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing

Energy demand is growing for the first time in 20 years, driven by surging manufacturing, transportation, electrification, and data centers. Simultaneously, hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in domestic supply chains for critical minerals and components. Developers and manufacturers will require trillions of dollars in capital to meet growing needs.

Unfortunately, the capital markets supporting this transformation remain opaque, fragmented, and complex. At Crux, we recognized the missing infrastructure: a central capital markets platform designed specifically for the next century of American energy and industry. By connecting counterparties, providing market intelligence, and streamlining transactions, we unlock faster decision making, lower cost of capital, and accelerated investment.

The Role

We are hiring a BizOps Lead to design and deploy automation-first infrastructure in our Business Execution team. This role is tailored for a problem-solver who blends a deep understanding of financial and diligence operations with a tool-savvy mindset—someone who’s excited to identify bottlenecks, automate manual processes, and craft robust internal systems that help Crux scale.

This is a high-impact, cross-functional role embedded deeply within our commercial teams. You’ll be instrumental in eliminating friction across go-to-market workflows, leveraging tools like HubSpot, Claude Code, and n8n, and pushing the envelope on how we use automation and AI to streamline operations, optimize our GTM motion, and enhance customer experience.

We believe that the right hire will help us build stable and scalable service delivery systems that support Crux’s growth while continually optimizing for customer satisfaction. The number one skillset we’re looking for in this role is problem scoping & execution – being able to take ambiguous and complex problem spaces, identify the core issues, prioritize across multiple solutions, and relentlessly drive toward completion.

If you have a background in working with investment teams and are energized by a scrappy environment, fast feedback cycles, and the chance to deeply shape how a platform grows from Series B into scale, we want to talk.

What you’ll do

• Design and deploy systems: Build automation-driven systems that support structured product workflows and eliminate friction across the Business Execution team and their diligence efforts.

• Eliminate manual work: Identify high-leverage repetitive tasks – deal evaluation, due diligence, internal handoffs, and compliance – and design scrappy, scalable automation to replace them.

• Own cross-functional service delivery infra: Build reliable service infrastructure across GTM tools (e.g., HubSpot, Omni, internal systems) that enable commercial, marketing, and PDE teams to operate with higher precision and less manual intervention.

• Experiment and implement quickly: Move fast on scoped MVPs, leverage off-the-shelf tooling creatively, and iterate toward operational excellence.

• Use AI to accelerate process design: Champion use of AI-powered tools and workflows to accelerate internal processes and enhance customer-facing systems.

• Collaborate with technical & commercial teams: Partner closely with Commercial, Growth, Product, and Engineering to ensure systems are robust, business-aligned, and adopted.

• Instrument systems with data & insights: Stand up analytics and reporting systems to track performance, surface opportunities, and drive iterative improvement.

Who you are

• Business Execution Fluency: You know the in’s and out’s of how investment banking teams work and the challenges that they face; you’re quick to grok the pain points in evaluating new investment opportunities, scaling compliance, and completing due diligence. You can quickly build trust with an Business Execution banking team.

• Cross-functional Coordinator: You thrive in cross-functional collaboration, helping to build strong connections across departments. You are an empathetic listener, capable of understanding team members’ concerns and building trust by delivering results.

• Strategic Rigor: You are a strategic thinker with a track record of identifying innovative service delivery solutions. You can communicate complex ideas clearly and focus on both short- and long-term impacts, ensuring that service processes are aligned with broader business goals.

• Startup Minded: You are excited to work in a fast-paced startup environment, where you’ll wear multiple hats, experiment frequently, and take ownership of designing, refining, and scaling commercial processes.

• Execution-First Systems Thinker: You ship MVPs quickly and iterate to high-quality outcomes. You know when “scrappy” is good enough and when polish matters. You are lightly ownership-driven and thrive on solving problems.

• Problem Scoper & Prioritizer: You break down ambiguous challenges, identify the core issues, and focus on the highest-leverage opportunities for improvement.

• AI-Forward Thinker: You bring a creative mindset to using AI tools for system design, internal automation, and smarter decision-making.

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We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.