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Head of Operations

Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-10-01

Core

Serve as an extension of the CEO to own decisions, communications, and workstreams, enabling the CEO to focus on highest-leverage priorities while driving strategic initiatives and operational excellence.

Role type

Executive Operations Lead (CEO Extension)

Builds

Company-wide processes, strategic initiatives, and operational workflows for a logistics SaaS platform

Domain

Logistics technology / SaaS

Required skills

Cross-functional project management, strategic execution, operational bottleneck identification, KPI tracking, business analysis, independent decision-making, process operationalization, stakeholder alignment

Preferred skills

Startup environment experience, high-growth scaling, complex information synthesis, proactive problem solving

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Partner with CEO and leadership to drive strategic initiatives; own cross-functional project management for high-impact initiatives; triage and resolve incoming requests directed at the CEO; define and operationalize company-wide processes; act as a central hub for communication across teams; identify and fix operational bottlenecks; track progress against goals and KPIs; conduct analysis to inform business strategy and growth opportunities; serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO on strategic and operational matters

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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