Head of Business Operations

Rippletide; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippletide seeks a meticulous operator to build the company-wide operating system across San Francisco and Paris. You’ll own the mechanisms that allow founders and teams to move quickly while maintaining control, spanning finance, HR, legal, contracting, and reporting.

You will decide what should be internal, automated, or outsourced, and drive cross-border coordination to ensure rapid, professional hiring and smooth administration as the company scales.

Qualifications

• Operate close to founders in a high-growth tech company.
• Understand finance, people, legal, commercial operations, and execution.
• Not seeking an office-management role; build operational architecture from ground up.

Responsibilities

• Own operating system behind Rippletide and enable rapid execution.
• Manage company operating cadence, cash, reporting.
• Oversee US and French company administration, legal, HR, payroll.
• Coordinate recruiting, vendor management, and cross-border ops.
• Prepare for growth and build scalable internal systems.

Skills

Structured thinker

Founders exposure

High-growth tech

Cross-border ops

Job description

Rippletide operates across San Francisco and Paris.

As we scale, complexity will increase across people, finance, legal, hiring, planning, sales operations, and company execution.

The purpose of this role is not to administer that complexity.

It is to build a company that executes exceptionally well despite it.

Your Mission

Build the operating system behind Rippletide.

You will own the mechanisms that allow the founders and teams to move quickly without losing control.

Your scope includes:

• Company operating cadence and execution follow-through.
• Financial planning, cash management, and reporting.
• US and French company administration.
• Legal and contract operations.
• HR, payroll, benefits, and people operations.
• Recruiting operations and onboarding.
• Board and investor operations.
• Sales operations and revenue reporting.
• Vendor and external-provider management.
• Cross-border coordination.
• Internal systems, processes, and accountability.
• Preparation for the operational requirements of the next stage of growth.

You will decide what should be internal, what should be automated, and what should be outsourced.

What Success Looks Like

• The company knows what matters every week.
• Decisions turn into execution.
• Nothing important falls between San Francisco and Paris.
• Financial information is accurate and available.
• Hiring happens quickly and professionally.
• Contracts and administration do not slow revenue.
• The founders spend less time chasing operational details.
• The operating machine becomes stronger as the company grows.

Who We're Looking For

Someone unusually structured, demanding, and reliable.

You have operated close to founders in a high-growth technology company and understand how finance, people, legal, commercial operations, and execution fit together.

You are not looking for an office-management role.

You want to build the operational architecture of a company from the ground up.

You are comfortable doing the work yourself initially, but your instinct is always to build a system rather than become the system.

Experience operating across the US and Europe, especially France, is a strong advantage.

Compensation

Target initial equity grant: 0.3-0.6%

• Final compensation depends on experience and role scope.
• Equity grants are subject to board approval and the terms of the company's equity plan.
• High ownership and direct access to the founders.
• Based from our San Francisco office at 2 Embarcadero.

Why Rippletide

You will build the operating machine behind a transatlantic AI infrastructure company at the moment when execution quality becomes a strategic advantage.