Operations - Generalist / Business Operations

The role

This person will own day-to-day operations including facilities, IT, office management, and vendor management. They will also build financial models, support recruiting and people operations, and lead special projects across finance, legal, and IT.

What you will do

• Own day-to-day operations including facilities, IT, office management, vendor management, and travel
• Construct and maintain financial models, scenario-plan budget and runway, and partner with external accounting
• Run spend, payroll, and treasury
• Stand up core business infrastructure including equity administration, benefits, payroll, corporate policies, compliance, and vendor systems
• Support recruiting and people operations including sourcing, scheduling, managing offers, and onboarding
• Lead special projects such as security and clearance workflows, opening new offices, and running internal offsites
• Provide operational support to commercial and government engagements for proposals, contracts, and procurement
• Serve as the operational face of Valthos with external partners
• Translate feedback from investors, customers, and vendors into decisions and priorities

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in a high-ownership, high-tempo operational role, such as early-stage startup operator, chief of staff, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or venture capital
• Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end in ambiguous environments, with minimal structure and minimal supervision
• Strong financial and analytical fluency; comfortable building models in Excel, running scenario analyses, and reasoning from numbers under time pressure
• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• High attention to detail and organization
• High ownership and a bias to action
• Comfort operating across extremes
• Willingness to travel when needed, including to customer sites

Nice to have

• Experience at a high-growth startup, ideally as one of the first non-engineering hires
• Experience setting up finance and people ops systems from scratch
• Experience with early-stage fundraising
• Experience in defense tech, national security, or government contracting

Before you apply

• Behavioral and case-based interviews
• Final step is an onsite in our office to work on a scoped project, discuss ideas, and work with the wider team

About the company

Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company that builds and deploys software and biological AI systems to safeguard humanity. The team consists of software engineers from Palantir and applied biological ML engineers from MIT's Broad Institute and DeepMind.