Business Operations

Light

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

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in operations, strategy & ops, consulting, chief of staff, or similar roles, ideally in high-growth startups.
  • Strong analytical skills to build models from messy data and interpret experiments.
  • Excellent communication skills, producing clear materials suitable for presentation to executive-level clients.
  • Ability to create frameworks and systems that standardize processes across the organization.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with teams like engineering, product, and sales.

Responsibilities

  • Drive partner growth through experiments and strategic analyses that enhance enrollment and revenue.
  • Design and execute structured research programs, utilizing advanced analytical methodologies.
  • Codify successful strategies into repeatable frameworks for new partner launches.
  • Build data infrastructure, including metrics and reporting tools to monitor partner performance and KPIs.
  • Facilitate real-time visibility into partner health and funnel performance for better decision-making.

Benefits

  • Work directly alongside founders in a small, high-output team.
  • Opportunity to shape strategy for multiple business verticals including solar and EV charging.
  • Engage in hands-on experimentation as a core part of your role.
  • High emphasis on creating scalable systems and processes that impact the entire organization.
  • Located in Austin, TX, fostering a collaborative in-person work environment.
Full Job Description
The role

BizOps at Light is the central nervous system of the company's growth. You'll work directly alongside the founders and a small, high-output team to build the analytical engine and operational systems that power every major decision: identifying the most attractive verticals to go after, shaping our pricing strategy, charting where to expand next, and turning one-off wins into repeatable playbooks.

Right now, Light is expanding into new states and verticals, building pricing into a first-class strategic capability, and scaling a partner model that spans solar, real estate, and EV charging. This role puts you at the center of all of it-shaping strategy in the room with founders and partners, then making it real at your desk.

In your first six months, you will:
  • Drive partner growth, directly with partners. Run the experiments, deep-dive analyses, and strategic sprints that move enrollment and revenue across our partner portfolio. You'll own the full cycle from hypothesis to recommendation to implementation-and you'll be in the room with partner teams co-developing the strategy, not just handing over a deck.
  • Run real experiments. You'll design and execute structured research programs-conjoint analyses, MaxDiff studies, survey experiments, in-flow tests-to answer the questions that drive plan design, messaging, and go-to-market strategy. We treat experimentation as a first-class capability, not an afterthought.
  • Codify what works into scalable playbooks. We know what works with our best partners-but it hasn't been systematized yet. You'll turn all of our learnings into repeatable frameworks so that every new partner launch is better than the last.
  • Build the data and measurement infrastructure. Design metrics, dashboards, and reporting that give real-time visibility into partner health, funnel performance, and portfolio-level KPIs. We're moving from scrappy spreadsheets to proper data tooling-you'll help drive that transition and raise the analytical bar for the whole company.


In six months, success looks like: Light has a clear, data-backed view of partner performance across the portfolio, a repeatable growth playbook, and an experimentation cadence that other teams want to plug into.

You would describe yourself as:
  • An operator who ships. Your instinct is to turn analysis into systems and processes, not decks. You thrive in sprint formats, know when "good enough" is the right call, and bring creative initiative to compress timelines.
  • Analytically rigorous. You build models from messy data, design and interpret experiments, and translate numbers into decisions. You know which metrics actually move a business versus which ones just look good on a slide.
  • Client-ready. You produce clean, logically sound materials that you're confident putting in front of a partner CEO. You communicate clear "so-what" narratives and maintain a high bar for written and visual communication.
  • A structured thinker in unstructured environments. You build frameworks that other people can adopt and use. Your work doesn't live only in your head-it becomes company-wide standards.
  • Cross-functionally fluent. You earn trust quickly with engineering, product, sales, and operations teams. You translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders and ship work without formal authority.
  • 4+ years in operations, strategy & ops, consulting, chief of staff, or a similar high-ownership role-ideally at a high-growth startup or in a setting where you built systems rather than inherited them.
  • Based in Austin, TX. This role is in-person.

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