Company
Sela
Annual salary
$130k – $180k/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Listed
17d ago
- Experience:
- 2 to 4 years
- Workplace:
- 4 days in-office in San Francisco (Wednesdays remote)
- Equity:
- Competitive equity
Hybrid in San Francisco, CA.
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About this Role
We are looking for a Founding Strategy & Operations Generalist with 2, 4 years of experience to serve as a high-agency, analytical generalist who will tackle the hardest problems at Sela, starting with building out the recruiting function and expanding into sales, pricing, finance, and whatever the company needs most. You'll report directly to the CEO at a 15-person Series A startup that went from ~$0 to $13M ARR in 20 months and is tripling the team this year.
What you need
- 2, 4 years out of school at a top consulting firm (MBB, Deloitte, Accenture, Oliver Wyman, EY-Parthenon), finance (investment banking/PE), or in an operating role at a venture-backed startup
- Strong analytical skills, must pass a rigorous live analytical screen with the CEO involving data reasoning and structured problem-solving
- Fluent with AI tools, daily user who has built automations or agents themselves, not just enthusiastic
- High-agency generalist who thrives on ambiguity and doesn't need structured guidance to be productive
- Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco; able to work in-office 4 days per week (Wednesdays remote)
What will you be doing?
Own strategic recruiting: build out the hiring process, manage the pipeline, and help the company triple headcount without lowering the bar
Take on generalist business operations, contract review, billing, managing the accounting firm, light financial modeling, and insurance/admin tasks
Work on strategic projects like pricing model development and new revenue motions as they come up
Build AI tools, agents, and automations to take as much work off humans as possible
Serve as a junior chief of staff, get thrown ambiguous problems with clear outcomes and figure out how to solve them independently
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