[Hiring] Operations Director @Amini

Role Description

We are hiring a senior Operations Director to run how Amini delivers, internally and for our customers. This is a permanent role. For the first 6–9 months you will also step up as acting COO while our COO is on maternity leave.

Our COO runs the business internally so that we deliver to a high standard all that we have committed to. You will own that internal engine:

• Turning signed deals into successful customer deployments
• Making the numbers work
• Ensuring every team's plans add up to one company strategy

During the cover period you take on the COO's full remit, including:

• Finance
• Legal
• Compliance
• Company secretarial
• ESOP plan
• Investor reporting

When the COO returns, you continue as Operations Director, leading commercial operations, customer delivery, the PMO and cross-company planning, with a remit we will shape together based on how the cover period goes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in operations, strategy, commercial or consulting roles
• At least 3–5 years in a senior leadership role (Operations Director, COO, Chief of Staff, VP Operations or similar)
• Experience running operations in a scaling B2B technology, data or SaaS business, ideally venture-backed
• A track record of leading complex enterprise customer delivery and onboarding programmes
• Hands-on experience with commercial structuring, pricing and leading large proposals or public and private sector tenders
• Strong financial literacy: budgeting, forecasting, runway planning and investor or board reporting
• Working knowledge of contracts, compliance, company secretarial matters and share option schemes
• Experience managing and developing people, including senior finance and project professionals

Requirements

• Experience leading strategic planning and coordinating an executive team
• Experience stepping into a broader role at short notice, such as interim or cover leadership

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape a whole part of the business
• Grounded in real contracts with real governments
• Work with a small, highly skilled and non-hierarchical team