Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations

Manifest OS

• $110K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience in strategy, operations, analytics, capacity planning, or marketplace operations
  • Strong quantitative reasoning with comfort in dealing with unstructured data
  • Ability to construct practical models and translate results into operational decisions
  • Sound business judgment for viable decision-making
  • High ownership mindset, ready to build a function from the ground up
  • Exposure to statistical modeling or machine learning

Responsibilities

  • Build a structured dataset capturing attorney expertise, capacity, and performance
  • Develop an allocation model recommending the right professional for each case
  • Create reliable methods for estimating actual attorney capacity
  • Establish demand and supply forecasts by case type and segment
  • Build early-warning triggers for proactive recruiting
  • Reduce reassignments and delays in case kickoff
  • Collaborate with Legal, Recruiting, Product, and Data to embed models into workflows

Benefits

  • Opportunity to own a function end-to-end
  • Create systems that impact hiring, case quality, and growth
  • Work in a dynamic environment with a hands-on role
  • Chance to build from scratch, with no inherited problems
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business success
Full Job Description
Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations

New York, NY
About the Role

The Fulfillment Strategy team owns a wide surface across productivity, supply, and service quality - and needs an execution-focused generalist to keep high-priority work moving. Right now, senior team members are bottlenecked because ambiguous problems require immediate analysis, process design, and follow-through that no one has capacity to own. You'll serve as a force multiplier: diagnosing problems, structuring solutions, and driving them through to measurable impact. This role moves across initiatives rather than sitting in a narrow function.
What You'll Do
  • Investigate operational breakdowns and identify the root process, data, or ownership gap
  • Map and redesign workflows across intake, case production, quality, and internal ops
  • Build lightweight tools, dashboards, automations, and monitoring mechanisms
  • Track initiatives from launch through adoption and measurable outcomes
  • Conduct analyses that surface the team's highest-leverage opportunities
  • Respond quickly when service risks, capacity issues, or new business requirements emerge
  • Coordinate across Legal, Product, Engineering, Data, and Client teams to move work forward
What We're Looking For

Must-haves:
  • 2-4 years in operations, consulting, or an analytical generalist environment
  • Comfortable working directly with data to diagnose problems and structure solutions
  • Able to make progress without perfect instructions or clean data
  • Strong written and verbal communicator who can bring structure to ambiguous work
  • Proficient with modern AI tools to research, prototype, and automate faster

Nice-to-haves:
  • Experience at an early-stage startup or high-growth company
  • Familiarity with workflow automation or lightweight tooling (e.g. Zapier, Notion, SQL)
This is for you if....

You want broad ownership and move faster when given less structure, not more. You find satisfaction converting messy operational problems into documented, repeatable systems. You're energized by working across teams and functions rather than a single domain.
This is not for you if....

You need a clearly scoped role with stable, long-term project ownership. You prefer to hand off execution once analysis or recommendations are complete. You're earlier in your career and still building comfort with ambiguity and independent prioritization.

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