Strategy and Operations Lead

Bauhinia Search Partners; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Bauhinia Search Partners is partnering with a fast-growing fintech to recruit a Strategy & Operations leader. This broad, cross-functional role combines rigorous analysis with hands-on execution to tackle high-priority strategic initiatives.

You’ll work with senior leadership to build financial, operational, and analytical models, develop KPIs and dashboards, and translate data into actionable recommendations. You’ll collaborate across Product, Operations, Finance, Growth, and other teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in strategy, operations, consulting, or client-facing delivery roles with end-to-end ownership.
• Fintech or financial services experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to move between high-level strategy and detailed execution.

Responsibilities

• Own high-priority strategic and operational initiatives across the business.
• Evaluate new products, markets, growth opportunities, and initiatives.
• Build financial, operational, and analytical models to inform decisions.
• Translate data into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Develop KPIs, dashboards, and operating frameworks to improve performance.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Finance, Growth, and others.
• Identify bottlenecks and build scalable solutions.
• Drive initiatives from problem definition through implementation and measurable results.
• Provide structure to ambiguous problems and support long-term planning.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical ability

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial modeling

Job description

Location: New York City or San Francisco | Hybrid

Compensation: $140K-$190K base + equity

We're partnering with a fast-growing, venture-backed fintech company that is modernizing a large and historically underserved area of consumer financial services.

The company is looking for an exceptional Strategy & Operations professional to work across some of the business's highest-priority strategic and operational initiatives. This is a broad, highly cross-functional role for someone who combines strong analytical horsepower with sound business judgment and the ability to move from strategy into execution.

You’ll work closely with senior leadership and teams across the organization to tackle ambiguous problems, evaluate growth opportunities, improve business performance, and help drive critical initiatives from initial analysis through implementation.

What You'll Do

• Own high-priority strategic and operational initiatives across the business
• Evaluate new products, markets, growth opportunities, and business initiatives
• Build financial, operational, and analytical models to inform important decisions
• Translate complex data and analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership
• Develop KPIs, dashboards, operating frameworks, and processes that improve performance and accountability
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Finance, Growth, and other teams
• Identify operational bottlenecks and build scalable solutions
• Drive initiatives from problem definition through implementation and measurable results
• Bring structure and clarity to highly ambiguous problems
• Support longer-term strategic planning while remaining comfortable getting deeply involved in execution

What We're Looking For

The strongest candidates will combine rigorous strategic and analytical training with genuine operating experience.

We are particularly interested in candidates coming from:

• High-growth fintech, financial services, consumer finance, payments, lending, credit, or adjacent technology businesses
• Venture-backed or rapidly scaling technology companies
• Strategy & Operations, Business Operations, Corporate Strategy, Strategic Finance, or similar internal roles
• Top-tier management consulting combined with meaningful in-house operating experience
• Investment banking, private equity, growth equity, or other highly analytical environments when paired with clear operating exposure

Experience within fintech or financial services is strongly preferred, particularly where candidates have worked on complex consumer, financial, regulatory, marketplace, payments, lending, or data-driven businesses. However, we are open to outstanding candidates from other industries who have operated in similarly complex, fast-moving environments.

What Matters Most

This team is not looking for pedigree alone. Candidates need to demonstrate that they have actually owned outcomes.

The most compelling profiles will show evidence of:

• Personally driving initiatives rather than only advising on them
• Working cross-functionally across multiple business functions
• Taking projects from analysis through implementation
• Making decisions with incomplete or imperfect information
• Operating effectively in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment
• Building structure where processes do not yet exist
• Using data and financial analysis to influence business decisions
• Communicating clearly and credibly with senior executives
• Remaining hands-on rather than relying solely on teams beneath them

Ideal Background

4+ years in strategy, operations, consulting, or client-facing delivery roles with direct ownership of diagnosing problems and shipping solutions end-to-end. You may have started your career in consulting, finance, investing, or another analytically rigorous environment, but ideally you have also spent time inside a company, where you have been responsible for execution and have lived with the results of your decisions.

Candidates who have only advised external clients without meaningful implementation or operating ownership are likely to be less competitive.

Likewise, this is not purely a corporate strategy position. The team wants someone who is comfortable moving between high-level strategic thinking and detailed operational execution.

You should be equally comfortable:

• Building an analytical or financial model
• Developing a recommendation for leadership
• Working directly with cross-functional stakeholders
• Creating a process or operating framework from scratch
• Diving into the underlying data
• Staying involved until an initiative is actually implemented

What Will Make Someone Stand Out

Candidates will be particularly compelling if they have experience with some combination of:

• Fintech or financial services
• Consumer-facing technology businesses
• Marketplace or platform businesses
• Pricing, unit economics, or business-model analysis
• Growth strategy and market expansion
• Operational scaling
• Product or go-to-market strategy
• Strategic finance
• KPI development and performance management
• 0→1 initiatives or building new processes/functions
• Working directly with founders or senior executives

Why This Opportunity

This is a chance to join a highly analytical, ambitious company at an important stage of growth and work on initiatives that can materially influence the trajectory of the business.

The role offers broad exposure across the organization, significant access to senior leadership, and the opportunity to take on increasingly substantial ownership as the company scales.

This is particularly attractive for someone who wants to move beyond a narrowly defined strategy role and become a true business operator.

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range is $140K-$190K, depending on experience, level, and overall fit, plus equity.

New York City or San Francisco | Hybrid | $140K-$190K + Equity