Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tarteel AI is hiring a Strategic Operations Lead to partner with its founders on high-priority initiatives, internal operations, and systems that support efficient scaling. The role drives execution across operations, finance, recruiting, and internal tools while reducing reliance on founder involvement.
Responsibilities
- Execute across a wide range of high-impact areas, including operations, finance, recruiting, and internal tools
- Support the founders in executing quarterly and yearly objectives by maintaining operating rhythms, surfacing concerns, and helping functional leaders course-correct as needed
- Work directly with the founders, receive high-level direction on priorities, and maintain ownership of execution
- Help founders delegate operational responsibilities by building clear systems and documentation
- Conduct research and make recommendations
- Design systems and processes that increase team efficiency, communication, and knowledge sharing
- Screen inbound applicants and proactively build networks to seek out high-value candidates
- Champion adoption of internal company tools and processes
Skills
- Strong ability to take ownership of projects, break down ambiguous problems, and drive execution with limited guidance
- Demonstrated track record of applying good judgment when given autonomy and ownership
- Systems thinker with strong problem-solving skills and creative thinking
- Consistently seeks opportunities to use AI, emerging technologies, automation, and software to increase leverage and eliminate manual work
- Comfortable with daily responsibilities constantly changing
- Demonstrated pursuit of excellence, regardless of field. You should be among the best at something you care about, whether professional, academic, athletic, creative, or community-based
- Experience leading groups, communities, and/or organizations
- Willing to challenge assumptions, push through organizational resistance, and respectfully hold stakeholders accountable to commitments
- Able to absorb feedback quickly and improve rapidly in unfamiliar domains
- Experience in operations or similar role
- Experience building operational systems in startups or high-growth organizations
- Former founder, operator, or community builder
- Tools like Notion, Linear, or similar project and knowledge management tools are among your core strengths
Benefits
- Fully remote work - Work anytime, anywhere
- Dunya + Akhira — Islamic work week + Islamic holidays and culture
- Unlimited time off with manager approval
- Yearly team retreats and off-sites
- Ability to work in your thobe/abaya or traditional clothes in the comfort of your own home
- Work closely with the core founding team
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