Business Operations Manager

Plug

• $145K — $165K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years in business operations or related fields (consulting/high-growth startup experience preferred)
  • Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguous projects end-to-end
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, building credibility without formal authority
  • Comfortable with data analysis; SQL proficiency is a bonus
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, with structured problem-solving abilities
  • Proactive and adaptable, thriving in uncertain environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional projects from inception to execution
  • Drive accountability across non-managed teams to ensure project delivery
  • Diagnose root causes by analyzing operational symptoms
  • Collaborate with leaders to identify and rectify operational inefficiencies
  • Design and implement improvements like new workflows and automation
  • Facilitate department operations like weekly reviews and metric alerts

Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Daily lunch stipend
  • Equity opportunities based on role and performance
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Access to a fully stocked kitchen
  • Dog-friendly workplace
  • 30-day 'work from anywhere' policy
  • Ongoing professional growth and development opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Title: Business Operations Manager

Team: Operations

Location: Onsite - Sawtelle (Between Santa Monica & West LA)

Employment Type: Fulltime, Salary, Exempt

Reports To: Director of Business Operations

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Business Operations Manager to be a force multiplier for our BizOps Director: someone who can pick up an ambiguous, cross-functional problem, build the trust to walk into another team's operation, and drive it to a real fix using data-driven decision making.

You'll own cross-functional projects end-to-end - scoping them, driving implementation, and measuring success. You'll partner directly with functional leaders (Sales, Dealer Success, Ops) to diagnose operational challenges and help fix them.

What You'll Own

Cross-Functional Project Ownership
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives from scoping through execution.
  • Drive accountability across teams you don't formally manage - keep initiatives moving, surface risks early, and make sure deliverables ship.
  • Take on problems that arrive as symptoms ("this handoff keeps breaking," "onboarding is too slow") and figure out what's actually going on to propose a fix.


Operational Partnership
  • Partner directly with functional leaders to diagnose inefficiencies in how their teams operate.
  • Analyze data to size a problem and diagnose the root cause
  • Design and implement fixes such as new agentic workflows, automations, and SOPs
  • Lead and facilitate department operations (e.g. weekly business reviews)
  • Action on diagnosed daily metric alerts


Who You Are
  • 4-7 years of experience in business operations, strategy & operations, consulting, or a high-growth startup operations role (marketplace or automotive experience a plus).
  • A track record of owning ambiguous problems end-to-end
  • Strong stakeholder management: you can walk into a team you don't manage, build credibility fast, and drive change without formal authority.
  • Comfortable with data (SQL a plus) and analytics
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; a structured thinker who can bring clarity to a messy situation.
  • Bias toward action, low ego, thrives in zero-to-one ambiguity.


Compensation and Benefits

Annual salary: L5 $145,000 - $165,000

Salary ranges reflect independent, third-party benchmarking against national compensation data. Where an individual's actual offer falls within that range depends on a combination of factors, including relevant experience, specialized skills, training and qualifications, current business needs, and prevailing market conditions. Ranges are reviewed periodically and may be adjusted to reflect changing market conditions.

Benefits & Perks:
  • Health, Vision, and Dental insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Daily lunch stipend
  • Equity (based on role and performance)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Fully stocked kitchen
  • Dog-friendly office
  • 30-day remote work from anywhere policy
  • Ongoing opportunities for growth and development


This full-time position is based in Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and West Los Angeles) and is an in-person role. We welcome candidates from all locations to apply, provided they are willing to relocate for the role. Relocation assistance will not be provided for successful candidates. Sponsorship not available at this time.

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