Operations Lead, Event Systems & Client Experience

Nowadays

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Free lunch + dinner
Quarterly team offsites
Monthly fitness stipend
Health insurance
12 weeks paid parental leave
Generous PTO

Job summary

Nowadays is seeking a hands-on operations professional in San Francisco to own events end-to-end, ensuring excellent client communication and scalable processes. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and sales to refine playbooks and templates, enabling faster, smoother offsite experiences for marquee clients.

You’ll balance a fast, imperfect startup environment with meticulous execution, shaping how the company operates and scales its events program for high-growth client engagements.

Qualifications

  • Consistently puts clients first, even if it requires late nights or weekend work.
  • Ability to juggle multiple workstreams and prioritize quickly.
  • Excellent at turning complexity into clarity.
  • Careful with process but not at the expense of momentum.
  • Extreme attention to detail.
  • Comfortable working across ops, product, dev, sales, and clients.
  • Clear, thoughtful communication with good judgment.
  • Enjoy building systems that others can run.
  • Want to shape how a company operates, not just follow a playbook.

Responsibilities

  • Own events end-to-end, with clear written and verbal client communication.
  • Own and evolve the end-to-end ops flow for running events from first request to post-event wrap.
  • Be the point person for prioritizing urgent vs non-urgent ops issues.
  • Turn tribal knowledge into documented onboarding and templates.

Skills

Client communication
Operations management
Prioritization
Documentation
Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Linear
Jira
SQL

Job description

Nowadays is seeking a hands-on operations professional in San Francisco to own events end-to-end, ensuring excellent client communication and scalable processes. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and sales to refine playbooks and templates, enabling faster, smoother offsite experiences for marquee clients.

You’ll balance a fast, imperfect startup environment with meticulous execution, shaping how the company operates and scales its events program for high-growth client engagements.

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