Business Operations Manager / Strategy & Operations
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- Diagnose the business, define choices and build trusted decision evidence
- Turn strategy into planning systems, resource choices and scalable operating workflows
- Run executive operating rhythms and redesign the organization for AI-enabled execution
Benchmark: Stripe Company Strategy & Operations + OpenAI Business Operations Manager + Apple Business Operations Engineering Program Manager (current Sep 2026) Market refresh: annual and quarterly planning; operating rhythms and leadership forums; budget/resource/investment management; metrics and analytical decision support; process/system design; automation and AI-augmented workflows; root-cause improvement; cross-functional execution and strategy-to-operations translation.
Who’s Hiring Right Now
US openings posted in the last 7 days at OpenAI, Stripe — this role’s own benchmark employers — refreshed daily, as of 2026-11-01. Pulled directly from each company’s public job board; not exhaustive, and postings close fast — worth confirming the details on the employer’s own site before applying.
Diagnose the business, define choices and build trusted decision evidence
Strategy diagnosis, choices + priority architecture
Coverage: Business Strategy / Systems Thinking / Strategic Communication
Business metrics, SQL + decision-ready analytical narratives
Coverage: SQL & Analytics / Product & Business Metrics / Data Storytelling
Turn strategy into planning systems, resource choices and scalable operating workflows
Annual planning, scenario modeling + resource allocation
Coverage: Financial Modeling / Forecasting / Business Cases / Portfolio Planning
Process architecture, automation + cross-functional execution
Coverage: BPMN / Process Improvement / Workflow Automation / Operating Models
Run executive operating rhythms and redesign the organization for AI-enabled execution
Executive decision forums, influence + stakeholder alignment
Coverage: Executive Communication / Negotiation / Stakeholder Management
AI-enabled operating model, adoption + organizational transformation
Coverage: AI Adoption / Operating Model Design / Change Management / Governance
Role-Readiness Proof / Capstone
Act as the Business Operations lead for a real or simulated business unit. Write a strategy kernel and explicit priorities; build an annual/quarterly operating plan, budget and headcount/resource scenarios; define a KPI tree and SQL-backed dashboard; establish weekly/monthly operating rhythms and a decision log; map one fragmented cross-functional workflow and redesign it with clear ownership, SLAs and controls; automate one repeatable step only where justified; run an executive review; then produce a decision memo, adoption plan and before/after impact readout.
Proof Rubric
- Demonstrate strategy-to-execution evidence: coherent priorities and stop-doing choices
- auditable planning/resource assumptions
- trusted metrics and SQL/data logic
- useful operating cadence rather than meeting volume
- measurable process improvement
- explicit decision rights and accountability
- scenario sensitivity
- safe automation with human controls
- stakeholder influence
- concise executive synthesis
- quantify cycle time, budget, quality, capacity or business-outcome improvement and identify where the operating system still breaks