# Founding Operator

**Company:** [Gigs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gigs)
**Location:** Paris, France, Madrid, Spain, Stockholm, Sweden
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** €130k – €170k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Market Expansion, Operations Management, Regulatory Compliance, Project Management, Tax Structure, Data Compliance, Telecom Regulation, Vendor Management, Carrier Integrations, Service-Level Agreements, Cross-Functional Planning
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Leads Gigs’ operational and regulatory launch in France, establishing the local business foundation, securing approvals, coordinating internal teams, and managing carrier and vendor relationships. Requires 8+ years of international operations or market-expansion experience, including a zero-to-one launch, plus fluent French and English.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end operational and regulatory launch plan for France, including workstream sequencing, milestone tracking, and risk management.
- Establish the operational foundation, including legal entity setup, billing and tax structure, data compliance, local operations infrastructure, testing, and market-specific product requirements.
- Lead regulatory market entry by mapping required authorizations, building relationships with in-country regulators, and driving approvals to completion.
- Coordinate supply, legal, finance, product, and engineering specialists to keep workstreams aligned and unblocked.
- Partner with the GTM Lead France to coordinate operational readiness and commercial launch.
- Own long-term operational relationships with local carrier and vendor partners, including integrations, SLAs, performance, commercial reviews, and escalations.
- Build and document the market playbook for future launches.
- Define success metrics for the market from launch through scale.
- Build a local operations team as the business grows.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in market expansion, operations, or consulting at a high-growth technology company, ideally in fintech, payments, telecom, or another regulated industry.
- Experience launching a market, country, or product from zero and owning the launch end to end.
- Strong project-driving skills across regulatory, technical, commercial, and people workstreams.
- Ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information, document reasoning, and adapt quickly.
- Experience operating across multiple countries or jurisdictions.
- Ability to work across government licensing meetings and cross-functional planning sessions.
- Fluent French and English.

## Nice to Have
- Additional European or globally relevant language skills.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: €130,000–€170,000.
- Stock options.
- Home office or work setup stipend.
- Learning and development budget.
- Free phone and international data plan.
- Flexible work arrangements with regular time in company hubs and occasional travel for workshops, customer meetings, and company off-sites.

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