Co-Founder, Head of Operations

flowstate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Flowstate, a new operating system for human potential, is seeking a Head of Operations to translate a bold vision into an executable plan. You will coordinate across strategy, product, technology, marketing, and community to align efforts and deliver results.

This role offers cofounder influence over go-to-market, culture, pivots, and big bets. You thrive at the intersection of strategy and hands-on delivery, turning complexity into clarity and driving the organization forward.

Qualifications

• Experience in startup environments with multiple hats.
• Track record turning abstract ideas into delivered reality.
• Fluent in strategy, product, technology and marketing.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across strategy, product, technology, marketing and community to execute a unified plan.
• Drive project management, rollouts, and cross-functional communications.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and delivery.
• Partner with cofounders to shape go-to-market, culture and pivots.

Skills

Startup experience

Strategy & ops

Communication skills

Team leadership

Job description

The Opportunity

Three forces are converging to reshape work forever: Advanced AI that can bring order to chaosA freelance explosion that's redefining how talent flowsA generation that refuses to trade meaning for a paycheck. We're building Flowstate at this intersection. An operating system for human potential. A platform that reimagines freelance work and puts the human experience first. Where opportunities are fluid, contribution equals recognition, and work actually feels like flow. We're looking for a Head of Operations to help bring it to life.

The Role

We need someone who can take a vision this ambitious and make it real, coordinating across strategy, product, technology, marketing, and community to weave everything into one coherent, executable plan. Someone who looks at complexity and sees not chaos, but a puzzle waiting to be solved. This means making things happen. Managing projects, driving rollouts, keeping communication tight across every dimension. But it also means strategic thinking, product instincts, and shaping what we're even building in the first place. You'll have cofounder influence over everything, not just operations, but go-to-market, culture, the hard pivots, the big bets. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of the strategic and the tactical, who can hold the big picture while nailing the details.

Who You Are

You build for the right reasons. Not for status or ego or the exit. You build because you genuinely love it. You want to take this particular swing because you believe in what it could unlock for people. You're a card-carrying optimist. Where others see roadblocks, you see puzzles. You default to "yes, and…" rather than "no, because…" You think big but you know exactly how to break that big thought down into actionable steps. Mission over ego, every time. You believe in non-zero-sum games. If the team wins, everyone wins. You celebrate when others have breakthroughs. You're mission-first and team-first, because you understand that's how the best things get built. You have relentless standards and the work ethic to match. You care deeply about craft. You push for the highest quality because anything less wouldn't honor what we're building. You figure things out. There's no playbook for what we’re building. You're creative and resourceful. When something lands on your plate, regardless of what it is, your instinct is to say "I got this." That's one of your superpowers.

What You Need to Bring

• You have the "muscle memory" from having done this before.
• You’ve built things in startup environments where you had to wear multiple hats and figure it out with limited resources.
• You have a track record of taking abstract concepts and turning them into delivered reality.
• You're multi-dimensional.
• You can speak fluently about strategy, product, technology, and marketing, and you can synthesize them into a single coherent plan.
• You hold complexity without being paralyzed by it.
• You're a world-class communicator.
• Internally, externally, written, and verbally.
• You keep everyone aligned without making it feel like overhead.
• You create clarity where there was noise.
• You can lead and motivate.
• You know how to attract great people and create conditions for them to do their best work.
• You're the kind of person others want to follow into the unknown.

The Invitation

If you're the kind of person who's been waiting for an opportunity to build something that honors what it means to be humanif you believe work can be meaningful, social, fair, and actually funif you're ready to figure out what's possible when you give communities the tools to build and own ventures together. If this lights you up, then let's talk.