Founding Strategy & Ops Generalist — AI & Scale

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 key strategic priorities. This high-impact role starts by scaling recruiting and hiring, then expands into business operations, pricing, finance, sales strategy, and AI-powered automation.

You will build processes from scratch, structure ambiguous problems, and drive them through execution with senior leadership.

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.

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

Analytical thinking

Structured problem-solving

Communication skills

Ambiguity tolerance

Independent work

AI workflows

Education

Quantitative degree

Tools

APIs

No-code platforms

LLM frameworks

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 key strategic priorities. This high-impact role starts by scaling recruiting and hiring, then expands into business operations, pricing, finance, sales strategy, and AI-powered automation.

You will build processes from scratch, structure ambiguous problems, and drive them through execution with senior leadership.