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Business Operations Associate

120k – 150kNew York, NYBusiness OperationsOnsite2+ YOE
Summary

Business Operations Associate driving cross-functional projects, vendor management, cost reduction, and AI-powered process automation at a high-growth social events startup. Requires 2-4 years experience including 1+ year at a startup and 2 years field work.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Personally execute on high-priority projects across the business
  • Own vendor relationships end-to-end — sourcing, diligencing, negotiating, and implementing
  • Drive cost reduction across the business, identifying and actioning on opportunities in collaboration with Product, Design and Data Science
  • Support ticketing operations, helping build and scale the systems and processes that power Partiful's new ticketing business
  • Relentlessly identify painpoints, and streamline, automate and scale processes to make every team across the business better and more efficient, with a strong bias towards building & deploying AI wherever possible
  • Prototype solutions & build internal tools end-to-end using vibe coding

Requirements

  • 2-4 years of experience in business operations or a similar function, with a minimum of 1 year in a high-growth startup
  • Minimum 2 years of "field work" — e.g., at a physical services marketplace (delivery, rideshare), forward deployed engineering, onsite consulting, etc.
  • Experience performing self-service analytics, including SQL, python and/or dashboarding capabilities
  • AI-native, with a bias towards creating agents and relying on AI wherever possible to streamline workflows
  • Able to inductively reason about metrics and strategy based on the facts you learn on the ground
  • Comfortable jumping into any problem to fix it, no matter how small
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience building and scaling operations in a startup environment

Compensation & Benefits

  • Compensation range: $120,000-$150,000 depending on years of experience
  • 401(k) with up to 6% matching
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents (FSAs and HSA plans available)
  • Free OneMedical membership, telehealth, and virtual mental health services
  • Commuter benefits & contributions towards ClassPass and Citibike memberships
  • Unlimited vacation (minimum 3 weeks required)
  • Quarterly stipend to plan your own party and dogfood the product
  • Semi-annual travel benefit & semiannual team off-sites
Skills
SQLPythonDashboardingAI agentsVendor managementProcess automationSelf-service analyticsInternal toolsCost reductionProject execution
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