The Strategic Operations Lead will drive high-impact cross-functional initiatives, support company objectives, and ensure alignment across the organization, contributing to the company's growth strategy.
👋 About Owner.com
Owner is the AI growth system for local restaurants.
Our AI continuously improves SEO, marketing, and online ordering to grow first-party orders. Unlike other companies that force small business owners to master their software to drive sales, Owner gives them a proven system run by experts.
Owner is like having an army of engineers and marketers on your side, just like the big chains.
🌎 Our vision
We’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.
But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.
Once we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.
In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.
Read our Series C memo here →
🚀 Our traction
Since 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over half a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.
More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.
⭐ Our team
Our team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.
We’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.
🌆 Where we work
Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!
🔍 Why we’re looking for you
Owner is in a time of hyper-growth: we’ve more than doubled every year, and we’re on track to do the same moving forward. With this extreme growth, critical, complex, and cross-functional projects are appearing across the company. We’re testing and adopting a new pricing model, we’re bringing on a whole new segment of customers, and we’re transforming the way we interface with our customers to name just a few.
We’re making the first hire on our strategic operations team alongside our COO and Chief of Staff to take on the highest priority items across the company and drive lasting, transformational impact. We’re looking for someone with high ownership and world-class bias to action who will be responsible for the following:
Driving high-impact, cross-functional initiatives
Identify and lead the highest-leverage projects that are too new or complex to have a natural owner within the business. You’ll spin up and own strategic initiatives or functional areas that require urgent focus or long-term incubation—driving execution and impact where the company needs it most.
Supporting company-wide operating rhythms and goal execution
Partner closely with the COO and Chief of Staff to ensure alignment and delivery of company-level objectives. You’ll help manage the operating cadences that keep the business on track for our ambitious goals, and you’ll lead projects to course correction where needed.
This role is a chance to build and influence the future of one of the fastest-growing startups in the country on some of the most visible and high-impact projects.
💥 The impact you will have
- Launch and lead critical, zero-to-one initiatives across the business: standing up pilots, solving cross-functional gaps, or incubating functions that don’t yet exist.
- Support key projects to “finish the swing” with quality and deliver the anticipated impact
- Investigate and identify underserved / unfinished areas for high leverage project work through analytics and qualitative investigation
- Support the COO and Chief of Staff to execute the annual operating plan through supporting operating rhythms, uncovering areas of concern, and helping functional leaders correct course
- Act as an owner of this business pushing the needle on strategy and priorities
🤝 Who you’ll work with
- Chief of Staff / Head of Strategic Operations (Direct manager)
- President & COO (Close advisor)
- Functional executives, VPs, and directors + product and data teams (cross-functional collaborators)
✅ What we're looking for
- 5-7 years of experience working across Management Consulting, Strategy, or Operations. Bonus for experience working on hard operational problems i.e. supply chain, logistics, pricing, etc.
- Proven track record - you’ve owned business-critical programs and launched 0-to-1 initiatives in high-paced environments.
- An extreme bias-to-action - you attack every problem you spot full speed when others would still be having meetings about it and you take pride in the quality of your work
- Strong analytical chops - nothing can stand between you and getting a solution stood up whether it’s a back-of-the-envelope model in excel or an AI-powered data pipeline in SQL/python (it doesn’t have to look pretty, but you can’t be scared to try)
- An innate problem-solver - you thrive in ambiguity and excel at identifying and structuring problems, distilling complexity, and getting to action.
- A strong communicator - you can coordinate stakeholders across functions, align resources, surface risks, and keep teams rowing in the same direction.
🏆 Pay and benefits
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $185,000 USD plus a generous pre-IPO equity package
- Other benefits include comprehensive health coverage, remote-first workplace, unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!
🚩 Notice - Employment Scams
Communication from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.com email address.
We do not conduct interviews over email or chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers or banking information. If you believe you are being contacted by scammer, please mark the communication as "phishing" or “spam” and do not respond.
Top Skills
Excel
Python
SQL
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