Head of Operations

Prior Labs; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Transportation

Fitness

Team lunches

Company offsites

Relocation bonus

Job summary

Prior Labs in Berlin and New York seeks a Head of Operations. You will own the operating engine for growth, align finance, legal, people, IT and compliance, and partner with each lead to keep the company running as headcount and revenue expand.

You will build scalable processes, hire and develop an operations team, drive cross‑functional decisions with data, and maintain high standards of execution. Ideal candidates have global operating experience and a proven ability to scale operations in a

Qualifications

• High-growth experience in a scaling tech company.
• Global operating experience across multiple countries and time zones.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams including finance, legal, people, IT and compliance.
• Strong decision-making with a data-driven approach.

Responsibilities

• Owns the operating engine for growth and scale.
• Drives operational excellence across finance, people, legal, and back office.
• Frames trade-offs, surfaces risk, and turns decisions into action with reliable data.
• Builds and leads the operations team and sets high execution standards.
• Is a decision partner across functions and stakeholders.

Job description

Pioneer the future of tabular foundation models

Join us in our mission to help humanity making better decisions.

Quality output built on mutual respect and collaboration.

Undogmatic

High integrity

Our company actions reflect our values. Build technology that serves humanity.

Lead by example

Show don't tell. Model the behavior and standards we expect from others.

Mission-driven

Solve real problems with structured data. Build what matters.

Locations

Berlin

Where tech, culture, and creativity collide. Push the boundaries of AI in the city that never stops reinventing itself.

Where academic excellence meets alpine air. Advance AI in a city built around nature and world-class research.

New York

Where relentless energy meets AI innovation. Build at the pace of the city that never stops.

The epicenter of tech innovation. Surrounded by companies shaping the future of AI.

• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, transportation, fitness, team lunches & company offsites
• Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity
• 30 days of paid vacation + public holidays
• Seamless relocation including relocation bonus
• Work with state-of-the-art ML architecture, substantial compute resources and with a world-class team

Join Prior Labs

Do you want to push the boundaries of foundation models in tabular data?

Head of Operations

Berlin; New York

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Operations

Who we are

Foundation models transformed text and images. Structured data - the largest and most consequential data format in the world - stayed untouched, until now. What LLMs did for language, we're doing for tables.

In July 2026, less than 18 months after our €9M pre-seed, we joined SAP as an independent frontier AI lab - same team, mission, and open-weights models, now backed by more than €1 billion over four years.

The Role

The Head of Operations reports to Sauraj (Co-CEO, GTM and Operations) and take ownership of operational excellence company-wide. As Finance, Legal, People, IT and InfoSec, and Compliance grow into their own functions, this person partners with each lead on the operational side of their work and holds the whole together as one system. They lead the operations team and grow it into one fit for a company many times our current size.

Builds the operating engine for growth and scale. Owns how the company runs operationally and designs the processes that hold up as headcount, revenue, and complexity grow fast. Everything breaks at each new stage of growth; this person sees it coming and rebuilds ahead of the curve so operations never becomes the ceiling on how fast we can move.

Drives operational excellence across every function. Accountable for the operational side of finance, people, legal, and the wider back office, with IT, InfoSec, and compliance covered through the relevant leads. You will set the standard and makes sure nothing important falls between functions.

Brings order to ambiguity. Takes the most complex, cross-functional problems and drives them to resolution bringing all the right stakeholder to the table, motivating and inspiring them to come together and deliver the project for everyone’s benefit.

Is a decision partner. Frames trade-offs, surfaces risk early, and turns decisions into action, so the leadership team works from reliable data and sound judgment.

Builds and inspires the operations team. Hires, develops, and leads an operations team people want to be part of, and sets a standard of execution that raises the bar for everyone who works with them.

Who we're looking for

High-growth experience above all. Has operated inside a company through rapid scaling, seen what breaks at each stage, and built the processes and structures that scaled through it. This is the most important thing we are looking for.

Global operating experience. Has run operations across multiple countries and regions, comfortable holding a company together across time zones and jurisdictions, not just in a single market.

Broad operations ownership. Has driven operational excellence across two or more of finance, people, legal, and business operations as a senior generalist, partnering with specialist leads rather than owning their decisions.

A leader operators want to follow. Builds and develops strong teams and is the kind of person other excellent operators want to come and work with.

Experience in the data, developer tools, or AI market, and comfort working credibly with a technical, research-led team

Has built an operations function that grew with a company from startup into real scale

What makes someone thrive here:

Energized by building the systems that unlock the next stage of growth, not by maintaining the status quo

Radical ownership: runs at the most difficult problems and resolves them rather than passing them up

Practical and pragmatic: builds processes that scale without bloat, using as much structure as the moment needs

Calm and decisive under ambiguity and competing priorities, and sets that standard for the team

Location

Ideally this person will be located at one of our hubs in New York or Berlin. In exceptional circumstances, we will be able to consider remote/hybrid applications.

Life at Prior Labs

You'll work alongside researchers and builders who hold themselves to a very high bar - in the quality of their work and in how they work with each other. We move fast and still take the time to do things right.

Our teams are based in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York - when you're working on something as hard as TabPFN, being in the same room matters. But great people come from everywhere, and in exceptional cases we're open to remote, which usually means frequent travel to one of our offices. Wherever you're based, the whole company comes together regularly for offsites to build and celebrate together.

Our Commitments

The best products and teams are built by people with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds. We welcome applications from all identities and walks of life - especially if you've ever felt discouraged by "not checking every box" - and provide equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disability, or any other trait that makes you who you are.