Head of Strategy – Operations

Posted 9hrs ago

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Head of Strategy & Operations running Latitude’s payments fintech operating cadence, teams, and executive workstreams. Driving analysis and execution directly with the CEO.

Responsibilities:

  • Report directly to the CEO and serve as a strategic partner
  • Run company planning, goals, and weekly/monthly operating cadence
  • Ensure decisions are made, documented, and executed; automate processes where possible
  • Manage customer support, product operations, and compliance operations teams
  • Own service levels, staffing, tooling, and escalation paths as transaction volume grows
  • Prepare board decks, investor updates, all-hands materials, and executive meeting preparation
  • Own CEO-assigned problems end-to-end
  • Analyze corridor economics, pricing, partner performance, build-versus-buy decisions, and market entry
  • Partner with product on prioritization, market sizing, and competitive positioning
  • Connect customer feedback from operations with engineering priorities

Requirements:

  • 8+ years across strategy and operations: business operations, strategy and ops, general management, or a senior generalist role reporting directly to a founder or CEO at a high-growth company
  • Track record of execution on messy, cross-functional work
  • Direct people management experience with operational teams, including setting service levels and hiring
  • Analytical rigor; comfort owning data, using SQL or equivalent, and building spreadsheet models without an analyst layer
  • Ability to write board-quality memos and build sophisticated investor decks
  • Payments, fintech, or crypto context, including settlement, FX, or licensing
  • Comfort working in regulated environments
  • Experience at a small, fast-moving company and willingness to perform hands-on operational work
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with generous company contributions
  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • 401(k)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 10 paid federal holidays