About the Role
The Head of Operations reports to Sauraj (Co-CEO, GTM and Operations) and takes ownership of operational excellence company-wide. This role partners with functional leads in Finance, Legal, People, IT, InfoSec, and Compliance to ensure seamless operations and leads the operations team, scaling it for future growth.
Responsibilities
- Builds the operating engine for growth and scale, designing processes that accommodate rapid increases in headcount, revenue, and complexity.
- Drives operational excellence across finance, people, legal, and the wider back office, ensuring alignment with IT, InfoSec, and compliance.
- Resolves complex, cross-functional problems by bringing stakeholders together and motivating them to achieve project goals.
- Acts as a decision partner by framing trade-offs, surfacing risks, and translating decisions into actionable plans based on reliable data.
- Builds and inspires the operations team, fostering a positive environment and setting high standards for execution.
Requirements
- High-growth experience, including operating within a company through rapid scaling and implementing scalable processes and structures.
- Global operating experience, managing operations across multiple countries and regions.
- Broad operations ownership, driving operational excellence in at least two of finance, people, legal, or business operations.
- Leadership experience, building and developing strong teams and attracting top talent.
- Experience in the data, developer tools, or AI market is a plus.
- Experience building an operations function from startup to scale is a plus.
Skills
- Operational excellence
- Process design
- Cross-functional problem-solving
- Team leadership
- Strategic decision-making
- Risk management
Location
- New York
- Berlin
- Remote/Hybrid (exceptional circumstances)
Work Type
- Onsite
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- High-growth experience
- Global operating experience
- Broad operations ownership
- Leadership experience
About the Company
- Foundation models transformed text and images, and we are doing the same for structured data.
- We pioneered tabular foundation models and are the world-leading organization in structured-data ML.
- Our TabPFN v2 model was published in Nature and set a new state-of-the-art for tabular machine learning.
- We are scaling tabular foundation models to millions of rows, thousands of features, real-time inference, and new data modalities.
- We are a small, highly selective team of 30+ engineers, researchers, and GTM specialists with diverse backgrounds from top tech companies and research institutions.
- We are led by experienced founders and advised by world-leading AI researchers.
- We raised €9m pre-seed funding led by Balderton Capital.
- We believe in the importance of in-person collaboration for tackling hard problems, with roles primarily based in our offices in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York, though remote/hybrid options are considered in exceptional cases.
- We foster a culture of fast shipping, rigorous thinking, and high standards.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from people of all identities and walks of life, especially anyone who's ever felt discouraged by 'not checking every box.'
- We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment and providing equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disability, or any other trait that makes you who you are.
