Trunk Tools
Strategy & Operations Manager
$160K–$190K
New York City HQ · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in a hyper-growth startup, vertical SaaS, or AI-first environment.
About the job
Build and improve cross-functional business operations by automating workflows with AI, delivering strategic analysis, and coordinating initiatives across teams.
What you'll do
- Automate repeatable workflows across finance, operations, marketing, and GTM; measure and improve results.
- Own strategic projects and analyses from problem framing through recommendations and decisions.
- Build AI agents and automations, enable teams to use AI, and improve cross-functional processes.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience in a hyper-growth startup, vertical SaaS, or AI-first environment.
- Daily fluency with frontier AI models, tools, API calls, and MCPs, including creating agentic automations.
- Broad business judgment, exceptional communication, and ability to prioritize, scope, and ship workflow solutions.
- Comfort owning outcomes in a fast-paced, ambiguous, execution-focused environment.
Nice to have
- Strategy, operations, consulting, BizOps, or RevOps background; experience with finance and analytical modeling.
- Hands-on experience with AI automation tools such as Clay, Claude, ChatGPT, and Zapier; construction, AEC, or vertical-SaaS familiarity.
Pay
$160K – $190K USD base salary
Tools
AI, API calls, MCPs, LLMs, Clay, Claude, ChatGPT, Zapier
AI focus
Apply frontier AI to business operations by building agents and automations, automating workflows, and enabling AI use across the team.
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