{"id":14883,"date":"2026-09-16T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/?post_type=job_listing&#038;p=14883"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:37:40","slug":"new-york-396-product-operations-lead","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/it\/vaga\/new-york-396-product-operations-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Operations Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Descrizione completa del lavoro<br \/>New York, NY \u00b7 On-site \u00b7 Full-time<br \/>Compensation: $100K\u2013$180K + equity<\/p>\n<p>About the Company<br \/>Our client is a Series A consumer AI company building a personal context platform that already has millions of people using it to track and understand what they consume. They are a small, fast-moving team backed by leading technology investors, and this hire will be the operational core of their product and engineering organization.<\/p>\n<p>Founded 2021 \u00b7 Industry: AI, Consumer<\/p>\n<p>The Role<br \/>This is the operational backbone of the product, design, and engineering team: keeping the shipping machine clear, coordinated, and fast so each function can focus on its highest-leverage work. It is a hands-on, facilitation-heavy execution role with substantial ownership and a path into broader operations leadership. It is not a strategy or product-vision seat.<\/p>\n<p>What you&#8217;ll be doing<\/p>\n<p>Run the product operating system: sprint planning across Product, Eng, and Design, and own the backlog as a living artifact.<br \/>Own release coordination, QA readiness, launch checklists, and cross-team communication.<br \/>Spot coordination gaps, unclear ownership, and bottlenecks before they become expensive.<br \/>Own support operations: intake, routing, resolution, and turning recurring support signals into product and engineering inputs.<br \/>Use AI aggressively to compress admin work and build lightweight automations that let a small team operate at greater scale.<br \/>Simplify process aggressively, favoring higher reliability over more ceremony.<br \/>Tech stack: Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Compose, TypeScript, Hono, Postgres, Supabase, Snowflake, Cloudflare, AWS, Amplitude, Statsig, Sentry, Grafana Cloud<\/p>\n<p>Requisiti<br \/>3\u20137 years in a product, project, or technical program management role on a software product, with a track record of execution and operational rigor.<br \/>Hands-on exposure to the full software development lifecycle: sprints, backlog, releases, and QA.<br \/>Fluent working directly with engineers in a software development environment.<br \/>Has owned a product-ops or release process end-to-end and independently, including building one from scratch and recognizing when an existing one is broken.<br \/>Experience at an early-stage (Seed to Series C) startup.<br \/>Strong communicator and facilitator who runs meetings, documents decisions, and closes loops.<br \/>Able to work in person daily at the New York City office.<br \/>Nice to Haves<br \/>A consumer or B2B2C background with deep operational complexity, such as trust and safety, payments, moderation, or multi-stakeholder coordination.<br \/>Experience operating across multiple company stages, from very small teams up through scale.<br \/>Why Join<br \/>Be the operational core of a fast-growing consumer AI product used by millions.<br \/>Real ownership now, with a clear path into operations leadership.<br \/>A small, high-caliber team backed by leading investors.<br \/>Details<br \/>Location: New York, NY<br \/>Work policy: On-site, 5 days per week<br \/>Compensation: $100K\u2013$180K + equity<br \/>Visa sponsorship: Available, including transfers<br \/>Employment type: Full-time<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","_promoted":"","_job_location":"New York","_application":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com\/viewjob?jk=dbe14500c9372db0&tk=1k2laok04gm8r800&from=serp&vjs=3","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":"","_joinchat":[]},"job-types":[396],"class_list":{"0":"post-14883","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"pmpro-has-access","7":"job-type-visa-sponsorship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/14883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kick-start.us\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=14883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}