Head of Operations

The role

The Head of Operations takes ownership of operational excellence company-wide. This person builds the operating engine for growth and partners with Finance, Legal, People, IT, InfoSec, and Compliance leads to hold the company together as one system.

What you will do

• Builds the operating engine for growth and scale
• Designs processes that hold up as headcount, revenue, and complexity grow
• Drives operational excellence across finance, people, legal, and the wider back office
• Takes complex, cross-functional problems and drives them to resolution
• Frames trade-offs and surfaces risk to the leadership team
• Hires, develops, and leads an operations team

Required qualifications

• High-growth experience through rapid scaling
• Global operating experience across multiple countries and regions
• Broad operations ownership across two or more of finance, people, legal, and business operations
• Experience building and developing strong teams

Nice to have

• Experience in the data, developer tools, or AI market
• Comfort working credibly with a technical, research-led team
• Has built an operations function that grew with a company from startup into real scale

About the company

prior-labs is an independent frontier AI lab backed by SAP that develops tabular foundation models. The team is small and highly selective with backgrounds from Google, DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Jane Street, and CERN.