Founding Operations Director

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