Associate, Operations Strategy

Hiive

$90K — $120K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in revenue or sales operations in high-growth startup or fintech, or 2+ years combined with consulting or finance experience.
  • Hands-on experience in building, administering, or re-architecting business systems.
  • Familiarity with AI tools and a vision for leveraging them in revenue operations.
  • Strong Salesforce skills are essential; familiarity with Airtable, SQL, and BI tools is advantageous.
  • Big-picture thinker with a systems-oriented mindset, capable of scalable operation designs.
  • Fast-paced, ownership mentality with a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the operations partner for assigned GTM teams, understanding their workflows and challenges deeply.
  • Scope, implement, and manage critical systems, becoming the expert user across various platforms.
  • Manage Salesforce for the vertical, including reports, dashboards, and complex builds in partnership with specialists.
  • Collaborate with engineers to implement AI workflows that enhance productivity and insights.
  • Analyze performance data to identify improvements and maintain operational hygiene.
  • Engage with cross-functional teams to automate workflows based on market insights.
  • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in revenue processes through automation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to participate in the company's employee stock option plan.
  • 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, along with a health and personal spending account.
  • Dedicated workspace available in Vancouver, BC HQ with amenities including snacks, drinks, and a gym.
  • $20 commuter benefit for days worked in Vancouver HQ.
  • Engaging social calendar with team activities and events.
  • Significant growth opportunities into leadership roles.
  • Support for sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.
Full Job Description
As an Associate, Operations Strategy, you will be joining our operations team at a pivotal inflection point in Hiive's growth, embedding as a trusted partner to one of our core revenue-generating teams. You will own the systems that power their work end-to-end, partner with industry experts and GTM engineers to automate complex workflows, and bridge the gap between strategic intent and technical execution. This is hands-on, high-leverage work - you won't just be managing tools, you will be scoping, building, and scaling them from the ground up. If you thrive in high-intensity environments and want to leave an indelible mark on a rapidly evolving industry, we want to work with you.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:
  • Vertical ownership: Serve as an operations partner to your assigned GTM team, understanding their workflows, KPIs, and pain points with greater fluency than anyone outside the team.
  • Tool spike: Scope, implement, administer, and own the systems most critical to your vertical - which could range from outbound and lifecycle platforms (Outreach, Customer.io) to market intelligence tools (Pitchbook) to workflow and project systems, to post-trade and financial platforms, depending on the pod. You will be the power user, the admin, and the expert.
  • Salesforce fluency: Own the Salesforce work for your vertical - reports, dashboards, flows, page layouts, validation rules - and partner with our dedicated Salesforce team on complex architectural builds.
  • AI-enabled productivity: Partner with our GTM engineers to implement AI workflows that automate manual work, surface proprietary insights, and scale the human judgment of our sales and trading team.
  • Data-driven iteration: Analyze performance metrics and conversion data to report on what's working, iterate on what isn't, and raise the bar on operational hygiene.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Work daily with sales and trading, compliance, legal, marketing, and product to translate market insights into automated workflows and scalable systems.
  • Process innovation: Identify bottlenecks in your vertical's revenue lifecycle and deploy automated solutions to clear them, maintaining a high bar for data integrity at every step.


Required Skills:
  • 4+ years of progressive experience in revenue operations, sales operations, or a highly analytical GTM role within a high-growth startup or fintech, or 2+ years of such experience combined with experience in consulting, investment banking, or finance.
  • Systems builder's mindset: Hands-on experience implementing, administering, or significantly re-architecting business systems end-to-end. You have owned tools, not just used them.
  • AI-native mindset: You are already using AI tools to accelerate your own workflow and have a point of view on how LLMs and agents can transform traditional revenue operations.
  • Technical proficiency: Strong Salesforce skills are a must. Experience with Airtable, SQL, and modern BI tools (Omni, Tableau, Looker) is a significant plus.
  • Systems thinking: You are a big-picture thinker, capable of visualizing large inter-dependent systems and understanding how to build scalable operations that can handle explosive growth.
  • Bias for action and growth mindset: You move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of your projects from initial concept to long-term impact. You see opportunity wherever you look.

Preferred Skills:
  • Experience within a fintech or marketplace environment, ideally with exposure to capital markets or trading.
  • Understanding of financial services regulations and compliance considerations in a sales context.
  • Experience in a B2B sales environment with complex sales cycles.
  • Prior depth in one or more of the tool categories above - outbound/lifecycle, market intelligence, workflow/project, or post-trade/financial systems.


Compensation, Benefits & Perks:
  • Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.
  • Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.
  • Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.
  • If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
  • Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.
  • An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly "Friday bar," team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two "onsite" all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Women's Network events.
  • Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
  • Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.
  • Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

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