Business Ops Lead

Skills

About the Role

You will own operational delivery and priority initiatives as an individual contributor reporting to the COO. You will turn leadership priorities into results, strengthen operational processes, and coordinate work across the Foundation and its ecosystem, working closely with Executive Leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience, including end-to-end execution of complex strategic initiatives involving internal teams, external partners and specialist advisers
• Ability to understand unfamiliar commercial, legal and technical issues, identify dependencies and trade-offs, and translate objectives into practical plans
• Experience managing multiple stakeholder relationships across organisations and ecosystems
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organisational discipline and attention to detail
• Sound commercial and operational judgement and discretion with confidential information
• Experience in business operations, finance, management consulting or a comparable role
• Practical fluency with AI tools and workflow automation
• Experience within a crypto foundation, and familiarity with decentralised ecosystems and protocol governance, is particularly desirable

Responsibilities

• Own operational projects end to end: define scope and plan, coordinate contributors, track budgets and timelines, resolve dependencies and drive delivery
• Coordinate delivery across the Foundation and wider Compound ecosystem, aligning protocol contributors, governance participants, advisers and partners
• Prepare draft board materials, leadership briefings and stakeholder updates
• Oversee supplier administration, operational onboarding and records in partnership with finance and legal specialists
• Improve processes, documentation and handovers using AI tools and automation