Operations Manager at Wynd Labs

Who We Are: We build infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data to the companies training the world’s most powerful AI models. We're the team that helps to power and support Grass, a bandwidth-sharing network that lets us operate a massive distributed crawler, giving us unique access to high-quality public web data at global scale. On top of that, we’ve built pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files, powering dataset creation for frontier labs. We’re lean, technical, and move fast. No red tape, no slow decision-making; just a team of builders pushing to expand what’s possible for open web data and AI. The Role. We're seeking an Operations Manager who will keep the business running with precision and make it run better over time. Your first job is accuracy, timeliness, and execution across financial operations, compliance, record-keeping, and contracts. Your second job is to see think critically and strategically; spot inefficiencies, build better processes, and increase what we're capable of as an organization. Who You Are. - Acts with integrity and seeks out responsibility. - Meticulous about accuracy and deadlines. You close loops and nothing falls through the cracks. - Self-directed and adaptive. You find the path forward, re-prioritize without being redirected, and keep moving without hand-holding. - Approaches challenges as opportunities to build something better. - Welcomes feedback and communicates openly. Easy to trust, easy to work with. - Process-driven by nature, and systematic in how you improve the processes you own. - Proactive in keeping the right people informed without being asked, and in surfacing recommendations based on your domain expertise. Not just executing against a changing environment, but helping the team understand and respond to it. What You'll Be Doing. Core operations: - Managing accounts payable/receivable, invoice processing, reconciliations, collections, and financial reporting. - Overseeing banking, treasury, and cashflow operations, including cryptocurrency payments. - Driving end-to-end contract management workflows. - Ensuring compliance and governance across multiple jurisdictions, including document recertifications, legal reviews, and board governance. - Maintaining accurate, organized record-keeping - Administering tools, systems, accounts, and licenses across the organization. Process improvement and projects: - Analyzing workstreams to identify automation opportunities and efficiency gains. - Owning special projects that expand our organizational capabilities. - Collaborating with founders and senior leadership and across marketing, sales, product and engineering to remove operational friction. - Proactively surfacing risks before they become problems. Skills, Requirements and Qualifications. - 4+ years in operations, finance, administration, or project management. Startup experience is a plus. - Proven ability to manage contract workflows, financial operations, and record-keeping with a high degree of accuracy. - Strong grasp of AP/AR, cashflow management, treasury oversight, and financial reporting. - Familiarity with corporate governance, international compliance obligations, and contract management. - Tech-savvy with proficiency in automation and AI tools, Google Workspace, AP platforms, and banking systems. - Able to manage multiple workstreams concurrently and deliver end-to-end without being managed through the details. Why Work With Us: - Opportunity. We are at the forefront of developing a web-scale crawler and knowledge graph that improves access to public web data and extends the value of AI to the people. - Culture. We're a lean team with a high bar. We come to work not to be comfortable, but to find out what we're capable of and to do work that matters. We're not calling for people who keep things moving. We're calling for people who make everyone around them better. We prioritize low ego and high output. This is a fully remote team. - Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary, benefits and equity package.