Founding Strategy & Operations Generalist - AI & Growth

Success Matcher Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Success Matcher Recruitment partners with a fast-growing company to hire a Founding Strategy & Operations Generalist who will work directly with the CEO and own core strategic and operational priorities.

This high-impact generalist role involves scaling recruiting, building processes from scratch, shaping pricing and finance, and creating AI-powered automations to drive efficiency; you'll have visibility with senior leadership as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional experience.
• Background in management consulting, investment banking/private equity, or strategy & operations at a venture-backed startup.
• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving ability.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and limited structure.
• Hands‑on experience building AI workflows, automations, or agents.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High‑agency mindset with the ability to work independently.
• Willingness to take on responsibilities beyond a narrowly defined job description.
• Ability to work onsite in San Francisco 4 days per week.
• Visa transfers supported.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve recruiting processes, candidate pipelines, and hiring workflows.
• Own cross-functional business operations including contracts, billing, accounting coordination, insurance, and administrative processes.
• Support strategic initiatives across pricing, revenue opportunities, finance, sales strategy, and company operations.
• Build AI tools, agents, automations, and workflows that reduce manual work.
• Take ambiguous problems, structure them, develop solutions, and drive them through execution.
• Partner closely with senior leadership across recruiting, operations, finance, sales, and strategy.
• Help build processes and systems that enable the company to scale.

Skills

Experience level

Strategy & ops background

Analytical problem-solving

Ambiguity tolerance

AI workflows / automations

Communication skills

High agency mindset

Broaden responsibilities

Onsite in SF 4 days/week

Visa transfers supported

Job description

Success Matcher Recruitment partners with a fast-growing company to hire a Founding Strategy & Operations Generalist who will work directly with the CEO and own core strategic and operational priorities.

This high-impact generalist role involves scaling recruiting, building processes from scratch, shaping pricing and finance, and creating AI-powered automations to drive efficiency; you'll have visibility with senior leadership as the company scales.