Head of Strategy & Operations

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity & 401(k)

Unlimited PTO

10 paid federal holidays

Job summary

Latitude seeks a Head of Strategy & Operations to work directly with the CEO, shape the operating system, and lead cross‑functional teams across strategy and execution. This role blends rigorous analysis with hands-on operational leadership to drive high-velocity decisions.

You will own planning, accountability, and staffing for support, product ops, and compliance, while building executive materials and guiding strategic bets for growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years across strategy and operations in high-growth settings.
• Experience reporting to founders or CEOs and driving cross-functional initiatives.
• Proven ability to scale operations and improve execution.
• Comfort operating in regulated payments environments.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills with data ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own planning cadence, goals, accountability, and decision documentation.
• Lead operations teams including support, product operations, and compliance.
• Develop board decks, investor updates, and all-hands materials.
• Analyze pricing, market entry, and partner performance with a point of view.
• Partner with product on prioritization and market sizing.

Skills

Strategy execution

People management

Cross-functional leadership

SQL

Financial modeling

Regulated environments

Payments/fintech/crypto context

Executive communication

Tools

SQL

Job description

HEAD OF STRATEGY & OPERATIONS

Latitude is an early‑stage payments fintech building modern infrastructure for global money movement. We help businesses move value instantly, securely, and with full compliance-leveraging blockchain rails while delivering a seamless, enterprise‑grade experience.

Our team built payments and financial systems at Uber, Coinbase, Stripe, Amazon, and Facebook. We've raised $43M, including a $35M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, with backing from New Enterprise Associates, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Foundation, Lightspeed Faction, Paxos, and others.

We're looking for a Head of Strategy & Operations to work directly with the CEO, set how the company runs, lead our operational teams, and personally drive the work that matters most in any given quarter.

Location (Required): NY or Houston, TX

THE ROLE

This role reports to the CEO and is responsible for enabling Latitude to operate at a high velocity, running the operational teams, and serving as a strategic partner to the CEO.

On any given week, you might be building the board deck, sitting in on a support escalation, modeling economics of a new market, and unblocking projects that stalled. It is a deliberately broad role.

We want a strong strategic thinker, but this is not a pure strategy job. Roughly half is running the operating cadence and managing the ops teams; the rest is analysis, executive materials, and solving problems. Execution excellence is key.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Run the operating system of the company. Own planning, goals, and how we build accountability. Ensure decisions are made, documented, and executed.
• Manage our operations teams. Customer support, product operations, and compliance operations report in to you. Own service levels, staffing, tooling, and escalation paths as transaction volume grows.
• Own executive workstreams. Board decks, investor updates, all-hands, and preparation for the meetings that matter..
• Analysis behind the decisions. Corridor economics, pricing, partner performance, build-versus-buy, and market entry. Bring recommendations with a point of view, not just the data.
• Support product with strategy. Partner with product on prioritization, market sizing, and competitive positioning. Be the connective tissue between what customers are telling operations and what engineering is building.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

REQUIRED

• 8+ years across strategy and operations: business operations, strategy and ops, general management, or a senior generalist role reporting directly to a founder or CEO at a high-growth company.
• A track record of execution. You are known as the person who closes loops. You can point to messy, cross-functional work that landed because you drove it.
• People management experience. You've directly managed operational teams, set service levels, and built a team.
• Analytical rigor. You own your own data, are comfortable in SQL or the equivalent, and are able to build a model in a spreadsheet without an analyst layer.
• Payments, fintech, or crypto context. You can hold a conversation about settlement, FX, or licensing without translation.
• Comfort in regulated environments. Compliance is a constraint you design around, not a department you route around.
• Startup muscle and low ego. You've worked somewhere small and fast, and you're willing to do the unglamorous work yourself.

PREFERRED

• Experience as an executive’s direct partner on company-wide execution at a high-growth startup
• Experience scaling a customer support or operations function through a period of rapid volume growth
• International or multi-market operating experience, particularly Latin America, Africa, or Southeast Asia
• Experience with board reporting, investor updates, and fundraising support
• Fluency with AI-assisted workflows and automation tooling for operational work

WHY LATITUDE?

• Rare leverage. Early hires at companies like this are rare. You'll own your function from day one, with direct access to the founders and no layer between you and the decisions.
• Infrastructure that matters. We're taking on a massive market with real traction behind us, building the rails that make global payments faster and more accessible. And you'll do it alongside a team that has already built this system category at Stripe, Coinbase, Uber, and Facebook.

BENEFITS

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with generous company contributions
• Meaningful early-stage equity and a 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO and 10 paid federal holidays

Latitude is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.