Strategic Operations Lead – Cross‑Functional & Scale

Sieve; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) and full health insurance

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner covered

Ubers covered home

Onsite in San Francisco 5 days a week

Job summary

Sieve is seeking a hands-on Business Operations leader to partner with the executive team, translating strategic priorities into operational reality. You’ll own ambiguous, cross-functional problems end-to-end, stand up new functions from scratch, and bring rigor to scaling the business.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, GTM, and finance to implement scalable processes, drive accountability, and optimize the operating cadence as the company grows in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in a high-ownership, cross-functional role: chief of staff, business operations, strategy & operations, management consulting, or founder.
• Experience at a hyper-growth startup building new functions and processes from scratch.
• Some technical fluency: comfortable with multi-modal data space and talking with engineers.
• Strong business operational instincts: financial models, dashboards, and turning ambiguous goals into concrete plans.
• High agency and bias toward action; able to lead unfamiliar problems to resolution with minimal guidance.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple concurrent work streams without dropping details.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, and drive the company’s strategic initiatives with leadership.
• Build and own new operational functions as the company scales, including planning and reporting processes and systems for finance, people, and GTM operations.
• Drive cross-functional projects with engineering, GTM, and finance, removing blockers and meeting deadlines.
• Run the operating cadence: goal-setting, weekly/monthly business reviews, and org-wide planning.
• Engage in technical detail when needed to support different verticals and initiatives.
• Identify gaps in company operations and build lightweight systems to close them.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Operations management

Financial modeling

Dashboards

Technical fluency

Job description

Sieve is seeking a hands-on Business Operations leader to partner with the executive team, translating strategic priorities into operational reality. You’ll own ambiguous, cross-functional problems end-to-end, stand up new functions from scratch, and bring rigor to scaling the business.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, GTM, and finance to implement scalable processes, drive accountability, and optimize the operating cadence as the company grows in San Francisco.