Operations Lead

The role

You will lead market launch operations and establish business processes in Australia. You will hire an operations team and coordinate central functions like People, Finance, and IT.

What you will do

• Lead market launch operations and design the central functions operating model.
• Hire and scale an agile in-country operations team.
• Drive the local office strategy and manage partner coordination.
• Coordinate in-country operations across People, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Security, and IT.
• Steer critical operational areas including HR/Talent, local marketing support, and project staffing.
• Serve as a core member of the Country Leadership Team.
• Champion Faculty's vision, mission, and core principles.

Required qualifications

• Strong strategic operational leadership.
• Proven experience designing scalable operating models.
• Proven experience establishing local legal and office infrastructures.
• Proven experience managing key external service providers.
• Ability to champion company culture and ethics stewardship.
• Excel at stakeholder management across complex, matrixed environments.
• People-first leadership mindset focused on talent development.
• Skilled at coaching, unblocking, and mentoring local talent.

Before you apply

• Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
• Introduction to the team (30 minutes)
• Presentation Task (60 minutes)
• Cultural Conversation (30 minutes)

About the company

Faculty was established in 2014 to work with global customers to transform performance through human-centric AI. They innovate, build and deploy responsible AI for clients in government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence.