Zero Hash

VP/SVP, Head of Business Operations

Zero Hash$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12-15+ years in business operations, strategy, or related leadership role.
  • 5-8+ years specifically in FinTech; experience in crypto, digital assets, or banking a plus.
  • Proven ability to build functions and processes from the ground up.
  • Strong analytical skills with comfort in ambiguity.
  • Experience in driving AI adoption in a business context, preferably at scale.
  • Demonstrated success in vendor negotiation and procurement strategy.
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging C-suite and board-level presentations.

Responsibilities

  • Build a unified Business Intelligence function with real-time reporting and KPI frameworks.
  • Collaborate with Finance, Sales, and Product to ensure accurate metrics and a single source of truth.
  • Proactively identify trends, risks, and opportunities for leadership using data-driven insights.
  • Own the enterprise roadmap for AI tool adoption and manage change across teams.
  • Identify and develop high-value use cases for AI across different departments.
  • Create a formal procurement function to optimize vendor management and contract negotiations.
  • Lead market analysis for new products, assessing competitive landscapes and growth opportunities.

Benefits

  • 100% coverage of employee healthcare premiums and partial coverage for dependents (U.S. only).
  • Vision and dental insurance provided (U.S. only).
  • Equity earning potential for employees.
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave after six months of service.
  • Membership to WeWork facilities for flexibility in workspace.
  • Annual stipend for work-from-home expenses.
  • Yearly learning and development stipend available after six months of employment.
Full Job Description
About the Job

zerohash is looking for a VP/SVP of Business Operations to bring rigor, speed, and cross-functional coordination to how the company makes decisions and scales. We're looking for a senior leader to build, lead, and scale this function from the ground up.

This is a high-visibility, cross-functional leadership role reporting into executive leadership. You will own five connected pillars - business intelligence, AI operational rollout, procurement, new product/market analysis, and organizational design & operating efficiency - and be responsible for turning each into a durable, well-run sub-department rather than a one-off project. You'll work closely with Finance, Compliance, Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams, and will regularly present findings and recommendations to the executive team.
Responsibilities

Business Intelligence
  • Build the company's core BI function: unified reporting, KPI frameworks, and dashboards that give executives and the board a real-time, trustworthy view of the business.
  • Partner with Finance, Sales, and Product to define the metrics that matter and ensure a single source of truth across systems.
  • Turn data into decisions - proactively surface trends, risks, and opportunities to leadership, not just retrospective reporting.

AI Operational Rollout
  • Own the enterprise-wide roadmap for adopting new AI tools and workflows across internal operations - from evaluation and pilots to change management and adoption.
  • Identify high-value use cases across teams (support, compliance, engineering, ops) and build the business case, sequencing, and governance for rollout.
  • Establish guardrails in partnership with Compliance, Security, and Legal so AI adoption is fast but responsible.

Procurement
  • Build a formal procurement function: vendor onboarding, vendor evaluation, contract negotiation, spend management, and approval workflows.
  • Drive cost discipline and vendor consolidation across software, infrastructure, and professional services without slowing teams down.
  • Partner with Legal and Finance on contract terms, renewals, and vendor risk management.

New Product & Market Analysis
  • Lead market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), competitive analysis, and opportunity assessment for new products, verticals, and geographies.
  • Build the analytical backbone for strategic decisions - pricing, market entry, and build-vs-partner-vs-buy recommendations.
  • Identify organic growth opportunities within the existing partner and client base - e.g., cross-sell/upsell potential across current product lines, underpenetrated verticals or geographies, and expansion of existing partner relationships into new use cases.
  • Partner with Product and Commercial leadership to translate market analysis into roadmap and go-to-market input.

Organizational Design and Operating Efficiency
  • Provide headcount planning support, org structure recommendations, and org health metrics to help leadership scale the company efficiently.
  • Lead process design and re-engineering for scaling operational functions - e.g., support, onboarding, and operations - as volume and complexity grow.
Requirements
  • 12-15+ years of progressive experience in business operations, strategy, corporate development, or a related leadership role.
  • 5-8+ years of that experience in FinTech; direct experience in crypto, digital assets, payments, or banking / brokerage infrastructure is a strong plus.
  • A track record of building functions from scratch - you've stood up teams and processes, not just operated within them.
  • Sharp analytical skills paired with genuine comfort in ambiguity; equally credible presenting to a board and rolling up your sleeves on a spreadsheet.
  • Experience driving AI or major technology adoption within an operating business, ideally at scale.
  • Strong track record in vendor negotiation and procurement strategy.
  • Excellent executive communication skills, with experience presenting to C-suite and board-level audiences.
  • Based in the United States; ability to travel to team hubs.
Benefits
  • Healthcare Insurance: zerohash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children (U.S. only)
  • Vision & Dental Insurance (U.S. only)
  • Chance to earn equity
  • Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months)
  • WeWork All Access Membership
  • WFH Yearly Stipend
  • L&D Yearly Stipend (after 6 months)

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