# Operating Partner

**Company:** [Unusual](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/unusual)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Enterprise Software, Go-to-Market Strategy, Recruiting, startup scaling, Team Leadership, founder coaching
**Posted:** 2026-07-10

> Operating Partner leading Founder Services and Platform teams at Unusual Ventures. Own day-to-day execution, organize resources across recruiting, GTM, marketing and customer intros, build playbooks, and directly help enterprise software founders from pre-seed to Series B succeed. Requires prior CEO/COO experience scaling startups.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Own the day-to-day operations of the Founder Services and Platform teams, including leading the people, setting priorities, and maintaining standards.
- Organize and direct resources across talent, go-to-market, marketing, events, content, and customer introductions to ensure they reach founders effectively.
- Help founders win by meeting them at any stage (pre-seed through Series B) and providing support in areas such as recruiting, go-to-market strategy, customer acquisition, narrative development, or media coverage.
- Build the playbook by partnering to shape founder support programs and turning them into repeatable, high-quality deliverables.
- Set the standard for genuine value-add in venture capital, focusing on substance over theater.

## Who You Are

- Proven operator with a track record of success in startups, ideally as a CEO or COO with deep experience in enterprise software.
- Experience building and scaling companies, with the ability to distinguish traction from noise.
- Built go-to-market and recruiting motions from the ground up, with the credibility to coach founders effectively.
- Genuine joy in helping founders succeed, with the standing to challenge them constructively.
- Strong leader who can own execution, raise team performance, and bring high standards paired with high empathy.
- Brings calm, structured thinking to messy problems, with a deep care for truth, clarity, long-term company building, integrity, and doing the right thing.

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