Product Operations Manager – Innovation

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Product Operations Manager at RapidSOS leading AI-driven operational workflows for public safety innovation. Focused on leveraging technology to enhance response times and save lives.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct deep-dive analyses (current-state mapping) of Product Operations, Engineering, Product, and Implementation workflows to quantify toil, friction, and bottleneck costs.
  • Design, implement, and test the future-state, AI-first architecture to drive maximum efficiency and unlock new levels of operational innovation
  • Identify, define, champion, and help implement practical use cases for AI and automation (e.g., automated data validation, guided configuration, documentation generation) that directly reduce the team's manual burden and backlog.
  • Establish the baseline for key performance indicators (KPIs) like Cost of Service, Time-to-Value (TTV), and Implementation Toil Hours. Define the expected Return on Investment (ROI) for all proposed process changes and obsessively track realized gains.
  • Partner with leadership across Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Success to translate new process designs into concrete technical requirements, secure resource alignment, and ensure organization-wide adoption.
  • Design standardized, repeatable, and data-informed processes for product readiness, knowledge transfer, and customer support handoffs to ensure product success post-launch.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years in a strategic role focused on process design or Product Operations/Strategy, preferably within a high-growth SaaS environment.
  • Proven track record of successfully mapping, optimizing, and deploying complex, multi-stakeholder workflows that resulted in quantifiable operational savings.
  • Strong understanding of current AI capabilities and experience in applying them to process automation, knowledge management, and data handling in a business context.
  • Demonstrable experience connecting process improvements directly to financial or business outcomes (e.g., cost avoidance, revenue acceleration).
  • Exceptional ability to build consensus and drive organizational change across cross-functional teams, effectively influencing stakeholders at all levels..
  • Drive to solve problems at the root level, not just treat symptoms.
  • A decisive, proactive approach to work with a focus on delivering tangible results against high-impact goals.
  • Highly self-motivated; ability to adapt and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of ownership
  • Ability and willingness to collaborate in-person quarterly, or as needed

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation
  • A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team