Strategic Operations Lead for Cross-Functional Programs

Fusion Energy Base; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 155,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Equity

Job summary

Xcimer Energy is seeking a Business Strategy & Operations Lead to connect strategic priorities to day-to-day execution at our Denver HQ. You will partner with Program Management and the Chief of Staff to drive rollout of new operational processes, manage cross-functional projects, and optimize resource planning across finance, IT, facilities, and HR.

The role demands strong analytical and financial modeling skills, excellent communication, and a track record of delivering end-to-end initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations; 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.
• Experience supporting facilities or space planning, ideally across multiple sites.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with comfort building quantitative models that connect technical or program decisions to business and economic outcomes.
• High ownership and low ego, with a bias toward proactively stepping into ambiguous, cross-functional problems rather than waiting to be assigned one.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively — and lead meetings — across engineering, finance, procurement, IT, and executive stakeholders.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee of granted asylum.

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.
• Partner with the Head of PMO to represent business-operations capacity and constraints (finance, procurement, IT, facilities, data systems) in program planning, ensuring program schedules are built against realistic support-function resourcing.
• 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

Strategy

Operations

Program management

Financial modeling

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations

MBA or equivalent experience

Tools

Confluence

Teamcenter

Boltline/ERP

Job description

Xcimer Energy is seeking a Business Strategy & Operations Lead to connect strategic priorities to day-to-day execution at our Denver HQ. You will partner with Program Management and the Chief of Staff to drive rollout of new operational processes, manage cross-functional projects, and optimize resource planning across finance, IT, facilities, and HR.

The role demands strong analytical and financial modeling skills, excellent communication, and a track record of delivering end-to-end initiatives