Process Improvement Manager

Entertainment Partners Inc; Ventura (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

StartupAdvantage in California is seeking a Process Improvement Manager to drive efficiency across teams. The role offers a base salary range of $125,000 to $197,000, a growth plan, and mentoring from leaders who care.

Ideal candidate has 8+ years experience, strong facilitation and mentoring skills, and a readiness to scale workflows to StartupAdvantage-scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in process improvement or related field.
• Experience mentoring or supporting manager teammates.
• Proven aptitude for facilitation.
• Familiarity with StartupAdvantage-scale workflows or ability to scale them.

Responsibilities

• Apply initiative and stakeholder management to solve daily operational challenges.
• Own mistakes openly and celebrate wins quietly.
• Keep the full-time schedule realistic when everyone wants everything yesterday.
• Push back respectfully when shortcuts risk future costs.
• Pressure-test assumptions before they harden into costly mistakes.
• Prevent empathy debt from accumulating on your watch.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Mentoring managers

Facilitation

Process improvement

8+ years experience

Job description

A Process Improvement Manager opportunity has opened at StartupAdvantage, and we'd love to find someone who's genuinely excited about it. Step into a Process Improvement Manager position at StartupAdvantage where $125,000 - $197,000, team support, and career growth come standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply Initiative and Stakeholder Management to solve day-to-day operational challenges
• Own your mistakes loudly and your wins quietly
• Keep the full-time schedule realistic when everyone wants everything yesterday
• Push back, respectfully, when a Multitasking shortcut will cost us later
• Pressure-test assumptions before they harden into expensive mistakesPressure-test assumptions before they harden into expensive mistakes
• Refuse to let Empathy debt quietly accumulate on your watch

What You'll Bring

• Familiarity with StartupAdvantage-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support manager teammates
• Proven aptitude for Facilitation, ideally near San Buenaventura, CA
• 8+ years that left you with strong instincts and few illustrations
• A teammate's instinct to unblock others before yourself

Few people outside CA realize that StartupAdvantage powers a surprising slice of the general infrastructure running across San Buenaventura, CA today. We keep the full-time workload sustainable so your best Empathy work isn't your last gasp.

A $125,000 - $197,000 base, a growth plan with teeth, mentorship from people who care, and flexibility baked in, that is what StartupAdvantage puts forward.

We're looking for the person who reads general job posts and thinks I could fix that.