Strategic Operations Lead - Cross-Functional Execution

Lever, Inc.; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Xcimer Energy, headquartered in Denver, CO, seeks a Strategy & Operations Lead to connect strategic priorities with day-to-day execution by partnering with Program Management and the Chief of Staff. You will close gaps between leadership decisions and what gets built, run analyses for prioritization, and drive rollout, training, and adoption of new processes across the company.

You'll own cross-functional initiatives from initial framing through implementation, shaping knowledge management, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, or a related field; an MBA or equivalent experience a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, program management, or management consulting, ideally supporting a hardware, deep-tech, or complex engineering organization.
• Demonstrated experience designing and rolling out operational processes end-to-end — including training and post-implementation follow-through — in a fast-growing or resource-constrained organization.
• Demonstrated experience with headcount planning, demand/supply forecasting, or workforce modeling in a scaling organization.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the implementation arm for newly approved operational processes: write clear, usable process documentation, design and run the training and rollout plan, and own the post-implementation adoption review.
• Own operational projects end-to-end — from problem definition through solutioning and implementation to a clean transition of ownership — coordinating finance, procurement, IT, facilities, and HR to deliver company-wide operational projects that don't sit cleanly inside a single engineering program.
• Own headcount planning and demand/supply forecasting for business-operations functions, building the tooling and processes that support efficient resource allocation as Xcimer scales.
• Define and evolve Xcimer's operational knowledge-management and information architecture (e.g., Confluence or similar), driving adoption and content hygiene across departments.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog of identified-but-unresourced operational process gaps across the company and recommend sequencing and resourcing to close them.
• Partner with other departments to map end-to-end business data workflows (e.g., Teamcenter, Boltline, ERP) and drive resolution of cross-team data and process gaps.
• Work with the Chief of Staff to translate decisions and action items from executive offsites and business reviews into resourced initiatives with clear owners, timelines, and follow-through.
• Identify, evaluate, and help mitigate operational risks and single points of failure across business operations functions.
• Partner with Finance to build and maintain the program-level economic models that connect technical and schedule decisions to long-run plant economics, capital requirements, and investment tradeoffs — feeding the assumptions Finance uses in its capital-markets and fundraising models — to support program prioritization and make/buy decisions.
• Partner with the Head of PMO to represent business-operations capacity and constraints in program planning, ensuring schedules are built against realistic resource.
• Project-manage across large, cross-functional stakeholder groups: lead working sessions, wrangle multiple threads at once, and report progress up to executive stakeholders without dropping the ball.
• Prepare analysis and materials to support budget reviews, board updates, and investor reporting as requested by the COO.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial modeling

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, or a related field

MBA or equivalent experience

Tools

Confluence

Looker

Tableau

Job description

Xcimer Energy, headquartered in Denver, CO, seeks a Strategy & Operations Lead to connect strategic priorities with day-to-day execution by partnering with Program Management and the Chief of Staff. You will close gaps between leadership decisions and what gets built, run analyses for prioritization, and drive rollout, training, and adoption of new processes across the company.

You'll own cross-functional initiatives from initial framing through implementation, shaping knowledge management, and