Head Of Business Operations & Strategy

About The Role
Zero Hash is looking for an experienced Head of Business Operations & Strategy. In this role, you will be pivotal in shaping the company's strategic direction, driving operational efficiency, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. You will work closely with senior leadership to establish and track key performance indicators, assess market opportunities, and support company-wide planning and execution. You’ll bring commercial acumen, strong stakeholder management, and operational rigor.
If you're looking to have a massive impact in a high-growth startup in one of the most exciting markets in decades, you will find this role challenging and rewarding in equal measure.
Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on analytical support and develop actionable insights that influence key decision makers, assess market opportunities, analyze current business performance, and build data models to extrapolate current and historical trends into forward-looking forecasts.
• Providing thought leadership on industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies relevant to our business.
• Collaborating with senior leadership to set company priorities, how to best allocate resources, improve existing processes, and communicate progress regularly.
• Serve as a thought leader for Zero Hash on white space business, product, and non-product opportunities.
• Developing and executing the company's strategic plans to drive growth and achieve business objectives.
• Guiding and overseeing the annual and quarterly planning processes, including setting and tracking OKRs across the organization.

Requirements

• Ability and desire to “roll up sleeves” and execute in a fast-paced environment
• Prior experience building and managing a team with proven high-quality talent
• Experience using structured problem-solving frameworks to address business challenges and identify opportunities for growth
• Proficiency in creating financial models and business projections to support strategic decision-making and resource allocation
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities, with the aptitude to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to diverse audiences
• Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams, managing projects from initiation to completion, and delivering results on time and within budget
• The capability to identify and evaluate new market opportunities, performing due diligence to inform company strategy.
• Familiarity with setting and tracking objectives and key results (OKRs) to measure progress and ensure accountability.
• 7-10 years of combined experience at a top-tier management consulting firm and/or tech, financial services, or fintech

Preferred

• Experience at a banking-as-a-service, brokerage-as a service, payment-as-a-service business
• M&A, Investment, or broader corporate development experience.
• Experience with digital assets
• Experience working with globally distributed time zones across multiple time zones

Benefits Offered
We believe a happy, motivated, and healthy team is the best way to succeed. We offer the following benefits:

• Visa Sponsorship
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Mental Health and Wellness Program
• Vision & Dental Insurance
• Healthcare Insurance: Zero Hash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children
• Equity Ownership and Early Exercise
• WFH stipend of $500
• WeWork All Access Membership
• Educational budget of $1000
• 401k

About Zero Hash
Zero Hash is a crypto-as-a-service API that enables any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). We power neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs, yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs.
Our thesis is very simple: every financial services firm will offer digital assets within the next 2 years and will do so through platforms such as Zero Hash. Zero Hash is defining the new FinTech vertical of crypto-as-a-service.
Clients include MoneyLion, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, Tastytrade. Backed by Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, Tastytrade.
The Zero Hash Culture
All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:

• Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
• Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of “we” not “me”.
• Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.
• Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
• Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and make a difference every day.
• Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
• Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.
• Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.

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