Strategy & BizOps Manager

Parallelz

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

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years in strategy and operations, chief of staff, BizOps, or generalist role at a high-growth tech startup, big tech, management consulting, or investment banking.
  • Strong quantitative skills, comfortable with financial models and spreadsheets.
  • Ability to apply first-principles thinking for problem-solving.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for decision-making documents.
  • High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to switch contexts effectively.
  • Daily use of AI tools for workflow automation and reporting.
  • Strong sense of ownership and initiative.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with founders and executives to translate strategy into operating plans.
  • Run planning and reporting cadence including annual and quarterly goals.
  • Own the financial operating model and support various financial analyses.
  • Conduct deep-dive analyses on critical business questions and provide recommendations.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives with no designated owner.
  • Build and scale internal operating processes, identifying inefficiencies.
  • Support corporate development and fundraising, including market research and materials.

Benefits

  • Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision.
  • Generous time off policies.
  • Access to leading AI tools and platforms.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a Strategy & Business Operations Manager to sit at the center of the company and work directly with the founders and executive team on the problems that matter most in any given week. You will not own a single vertical. You will own whatever the business needs you to own, ship it, and move to the next thing.

This role is right for someone who wants breadth, proximity to founders, and the chance to build operating muscle across strategy, finance, product, and go-to-market all in the same quarter.

What You'll Do
  • Partner directly with the founders and exec team to translate strategy into operating plans, tracking execution across functions and unblocking what slows us down.
  • Run the company's planning and reporting cadence, including annual planning, quarterly goal-setting, monthly business reviews, and board-level materials.
  • Own the financial operating model. Support FP&A, headcount planning, unit economics, pricing analysis, and the kind of zero-based budgeting questions that come up when every dollar matters.
  • Drive deep-dive analyses on the highest-leverage questions in the business, whether that's a new market entry, a pricing change, a GTM motion, or a product bet. Frame the problem, build the model, ship the recommendation.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives that don't have a natural owner. Pick them up, scope them, staff them, and drive them to a decision or a ship.
  • Build and scale the internal operating stack. Identify where we are leaking time, design the process or tooling to fix it, and deploy AI aggressively wherever it creates leverage.
  • Support corporate development and fundraising workstreams, including investor materials, diligence, competitive and market research, and target evaluation.
  • Act as a force multiplier for the executive team, with the judgment to know when to execute yourself, when to delegate, and when to flag a decision up.

Requirements
Must-Haves
  • 2-5 years in a strategy and operations, chief of staff, BizOps, or generalist role at a high-growth tech startup, big tech, top-tier management consulting firm, or investment banking.
  • Strong quantitative chops. You are fluent in financial models, comfortable with a blank spreadsheet, and can move between a P&L, a cohort analysis, and a pricing model without friction.
  • First-principles thinking. You break problems down from scratch rather than pattern-matching to the last company you worked at.
  • Sharp written and verbal communication. You can take a messy problem and produce a one-pager that moves a decision forward.
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, breadth, and context switching. You are energized by not knowing what you will be working on next quarter.
  • Active, daily use of AI in your workflow. Not "I tried Claude once" but "here is the agent I built last weekend to automate our weekly reporting."
  • Ownership instinct. You move without waiting to be told, and you close loops.
Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience in consumer tech, platforms, gaming, or interactive entertainment.
  • Exposure to corporate development, M&A, venture investing, or fundraising.
  • A track record of building something end-to-end outside of a structured role, whether that's a product, a side project, a company, or a community.

Benefits
Benefits
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation
  • Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision), including Health and Wellness spending account
  • Generous time off policies
  • Access to leading AI tools and platforms

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