Senior Operations Analyst

Hydrosat Inc.; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock options

Health insurance

401(k) match

Flexible PTO

16 paid company holidays

Parental leave

Mental health support

Commuter stipend

Cell phone stipend

Company discount program

Job summary

Hydrosat Inc. is seeking an Operations Analyst to join our Operations team and collaborate with the Chief of Corporate Operations on planning, modeling, and strategy alignment. You will turn cross-functional data into clear analyses and create compelling narratives for leadership reviews.

You will develop financial and compensation models, craft executive decks in Excel and PowerPoint, and coordinate initiatives spanning ERM, ESG, OKRs, KPIs, and budgeting across departments.

Qualifications

• Analytical thinking and data storytelling to support executive decisions.
• Experience in corporate operations or corporate finance is preferred.
• Structured, organized thinking with the ability to present a clear narrative.
• Ability to support a CCO and executive leadership with coordination and judgment.
• Multitask across topics, time zones, and diverse daily requirements.
• Excellent written and analytical communication skills.
• Eligible to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Act as a flexible operations resource to the CCO, picking up cross-functional analysis, coordination, and projects as priorities shift.
• Build clear, well-structured Excel models and PowerPoint presentations for leadership.
• Prepare and help coordinate monthly revenue reviews and business reviews with the CCO and leadership.
• Partner closely with the CCO on corporate operations, business planning, and financial topics.
• Build and maintain models for ERM, ESG, OKRs, KPIs, budgeting, and compensation planning.
• Define and track efficiency metrics across departments for leadership insights.
• Support departmental modelling and planning with department leads.
• Develop financial and compensation models for leadership and board scrutiny.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Coordination

Storytelling

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Hydrosat is a space and data analytics company building a new Earth observation constellation and software platform to unlock the power of thermal infrared imagery. We deliver high-resolution thermal insights that help governments, defense agencies, and agribusinesses better manage water resources, agricultural production, national security threats, and critical infrastructure.

We grow through two distinct routes to market – government programmes, and commercial data and subscription products – and our Operations team keeps the business running behind both, giving executive leadership a clear, trusted view of how the company is performing.

We are looking for an Operations Analyst to join our Operations team and work closely with our Chief of Corporate Operations. You will help plan, coordinate, and build financial and operational models. You will also help support analysis and strategy proposals that inform how Hydrosat runs its business – from employee compensation and departmental planning, to ESG, ERM, and other org-wide efforts. You will support organization of the efficiency metrics that tell leadership where the company stands, as well as the implementation processes that result. Using Excel, PowerPoint, AI, and other tools of the trade you will turn complex, cross-functional data and workflows into clear analysis and presentation decks that senior leadership and department heads can act on, and will help with coordination and implementation across departments for such programs.

This is not a narrow reporting role. We expect our Senior Operations Analyst to be a genuine thought partner to the CCO and executive leadership – helping structure how the company thinks about its own performance, not just producing the numbers. The ideal candidate is as comfortable, for example, building a compensation model from scratch as they are distilling it into a clear, well-organized narrative for a monthly business review.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to

• Act as a flexible operations resource to the CCO, picking up cross-functional analysis, coordination, and projects as priorities shift
• Build clear, well-structured Excel models and PowerPoint presentations that make complex operational and financial topics easy for leadership to act on
• Prepare and help coordinate and run monthly revenue reviews, business reviews, and other leadership initiatives with the CCO, department leads and executive leadership
• Partner closely with the CCO and executive leadership on corporate operations, business planning, and company financial topics
• Build and maintain models and plans which may range from ERM, to ESG, OKRs, KPIs, supporting benchmarking, budgeting, and compensation planning decisions, among other key areas of org infrastructure
• Help define and track efficiency metrics across departments, giving leadership a consistent way to measure how the business is performing
• Support departmental modelling and planning, working with department leads to support the build-out and refinement oftheir operating plans
• Develop financial and compensation models that hold up to scrutiny from leadership, the board, and investors

• Strong facility with Excel modelling and building polished, executive-ready PowerPoint presentations
• Experience in corporate operations, business operations, or corporate finance, ideally including exposure to complex company structural and/or financing topics
• A structured, organized way of thinking – you don't need to be the one presenting, but your analysis needs to tell a clear story
• Comfortable working closely to support a CCO (and where needed other executive leadership directly), with thecoordination skills, judgment and discretion that requires
• Ability to naturally multitask and work across a broad array of professional topics, considerations, time-zones, and other diverse daily work requirements
• Excellent written and analytical communication skills
• Eligible to work in the United States

Ideal Profile

• Exposure to both large company and a small company priorities and underlying realities – for example, starting a career at a larger organization before moving to a startup and helping build something from scratch (or vice-versa)
• A “spirit of organization and presentation”: someone who naturally organizes their thinking into a clear structure, even if presenting it to a room isn't the main part of the role, though there will be future opportunities for this as well
• Comfortable working remotely as part of a distributed team; candidates based on the US East Coast are preferred

Nice to Have

• Background in a startup or scale-up environment, having helped build an operations or similar function from the ground up
• Experience supporting a C-level executive or executive leadership team directly
• Exposure to the space, geospatial, Earth observation, or another deep-tech industry
• Hands-on experience building departmental planning, efficiency, or compensation models

Current Benefits

• Employee stock options
• Health insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental - Hydrosat covers 100% of employee premiums, 50% for dependents
  • Mental Health Support
  • Claims Concierge Service
• 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%, vested from day one
• Flexible, unlimited PTO
• 16 paid company holidays
• Maternity, Paternity & Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks fully paid
• Mental health support, including free therapy sessions
• Commuter and cell phone stipends
• Company Discount Program