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Headstarter

Founding Business Operations Role

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In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
60K-110K Annually
Mid level
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
60K-110K Annually
Mid level
Founding Business Operations leader responsible for defining and driving strategic initiatives, partnering on 0-to-1 project roadmaps, performing data analysis and modeling, designing scalable processes to improve efficiency and sales/top-funnel engagement, and identifying opportunities to improve customer experience and revenue.
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About this Role

As a founding Business Operations leader at Headstarter, you’ll be at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution, playing a critical role in driving growth and efficiency. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, solve complex problems, and ensure the business operates seamlessly.

About Headstarter

Nearly all software engineering jobs will be impacted by AI during our lifetimes. At the same time, being able to speak, sell and code brilliantly is quickly becoming a must-have for employers.There has never been a better time to disrupt cs education from its core.

At Headstarter, we are building the “one-stop shop” ecosystem to boost every aspect of broken, archaic CS programs globally — cataloging top CS projects, leaning/upskilling new technologies, job/internship guarantees, interview preparation, industry mentors, team projects, networking, resume experience, support/debug, structure/environment, accountability — just to name a few. We are starting with an “accelerator” that spans 4-months and an AI recruiter that is working for over 30 startups hire for 100+ engineering roles.

Ultimately, our mission is to give future tech leaders direction, standardization, consistency and transparency. Simply put, we want to give future gen-z founders more cracked gen-z engineers.

We’re a lean, aggressive team of founders set on building a new generational incumbent in learning and recruiting. We’ve raised substantial funding from the best investors in our field such as the first software engineer at Applovin who worked there for 13 years (fastest growing public stock this year: 10x’d).

About the Team

Headstarter was founded by Yasin Ehsan and Faizan Ahmed— Capital One/6x overall hackathon winner and Amazon/published ML paper at age 19— alongside advisors like founders of Duolingo, Foursquare, etc

We are nearing product-market fit and are building out our founding team very quickly. Reasons to join:

  • We have incredible market pull with summer fellowship “test” getting 60,000 applications from 135 countries in 5-weeks

  • We’re solving a difficult technical and “human” problem, which unlocks a massive market opportunity and enormous impact once solved

  • You’ll get to define the future of the company from the ground floor, alongside a world-class team

  • We work hybrid with offices in NYC/SF, but we hire from anywhere. We’ll pay to relocate you

Role Responsibilities
  • Defining and driving key strategic initiatives to support product and business goals.

  • Partnering with leadership to outline the 0-to-1 of projects, including requirements, goals, and roadmaps.

  • Conducting data analysis and building models to inform decision-making across product, operations, and customer strategy.

  • Designing and implementing scalable processes to optimize efficiency and drive operational excellence in sales and top-funnel engagement

  • Identifying and executing on opportunities to improve customer experience and unlock new revenue streams.

Employee Benefits

Medical / Dental Insurance

Salary

$60-110K

1-2% equity

Interview Process

Founder call

Power day

Investor call

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