Strategic Operations Associate

Blackwing; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Rainmaker is a forward-looking company building a cloud seeding system to address water scarcity and weather challenges globally. We are seeking an operations-oriented professional to help plan priorities, headcount, budgets, and milestones while coordinating across engineering, science, and field operations.

You will translate growth plans into concrete operational requirements, improve processes and reporting, and prepare decision-ready analyses for leadership.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in business operations or related fields.
• Comfort with solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems.
• Able to manage multiple workstreams with strong organizational detail.

Responsibilities

• Support company planning by tracking priorities, goals, headcount, budgets, milestones, and organizational capacity.
• Drive strategic initiatives that require coordination across engineering, science, production, field operations, commercial, finance, and people.
• Translate company growth plans into operational requirements across staffing, facilities, systems, infrastructure, and production capacity.
• Build and improve company-wide processes, workflows, reporting systems, and information pathways.
• Produce clear, decision-ready analysis for leadership on performance, resources, risks, and operational tradeoffs.
• Support business reviews, quarterly planning, leadership meetings, and other elements of Rainmaker’s operating cadence.
• Take ownership of high-priority special projects that do not yet have a permanent functional home.

Job description

Rainmaker is a forward-looking company building a cloud seeding system to address water scarcity and weather challenges globally. We are seeking an operations-oriented professional to help plan priorities, headcount, budgets, and milestones while coordinating across engineering, science, and field operations.

You will translate growth plans into concrete operational requirements, improve processes and reporting, and prepare decision-ready analyses for leadership.