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Founding Operations Director

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In-Office
New York, NY, USA
200K-275K Annually
Mid level
In-Office
New York, NY, USA
200K-275K Annually
Mid level
Owns all non-investment operations for a financial services firm, including vendors, contracts, compliance, budgeting, insurance, office matters, people operations, investor onboarding, and reporting. Resolves operational issues, builds end-to-end processes, automates routine work with AI, brings outsourced functions in-house, coordinates cross-functional workstreams, and leads an external sales team supporting institutional pitches.
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About the company

Our client is a financial services firm.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take on a founding operations role that owns every non-investment function, covering vendors, contracts, compliance, budgets and people matters, while coordinating workstreams hands-on and automating routine processes.

What you'll do

- Resolve operational issues end to end so they never reach the investment team.

- Oversee counterparties, service providers, vendors and contracts, including negotiating terms.

- Manage investor onboarding, due diligence paperwork and reporting.

- Run compliance workflows, budgeting, insurance, office matters and people operations.

- Automate routine operational processes with AI tools, working alongside technical colleagues.

- Bring in-house some functions currently handled by external providers.

- Lead a small external sales team and support pitches to large institutional prospects.

- Act as the central coordinator across workstreams, keeping them on schedule.


Requirements

What we're looking for

- Roughly 2 to 4 years in management consulting, investment banking or private equity, plus 2 or more years in strategy, operations or business operations at a startup.

- Hands-on experience running routine operations across several areas at an early-stage company, such as vendors, budgets, staffing and compliance.

- A history of designing and rolling out complete processes from start to finish.

- Experience as the primary contact for senior external stakeholders, running calls and communications directly.

- Very fluent with current AI tools.

- Comfortable working in person at the New York office five days a week.

Bonus points

- Experience in financial services or at an investment firm, including direct investing or investment firm operations.

- Experience building personal AI workflows or automations with agents or no-code tools.

- Prior involvement in elite sport or another demanding competitive pursuit.


Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 275,000

- Profit share

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- Full-time, on-site, 5 days a week

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