LayerZero Labs - Engineering Operations Lead
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience in business operations, engineering operations, or a similar function. Ideally within a FinTech, high-growth tech startup, or Web3 environment. • Deep understanding of how engineering organizations run: operating-model design, prioritization frameworks, operating cadence, and execution systems. • Proven ability to build and improve operational processes from the ground up (SOPs, automation, cross-functional workflows). • Strong analytical skills with experience building dashboards, performance reports, and data-driven recommendations. • Excellent cross-functional communication. You thrive as the connective tissue between Engineering, BD, Finance, Legal, Product, and Marketing. • Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership and ambiguity. • Hands-on familiarity with Linear (or a comparable execution / issue-tracking system) and modern operational tooling. • Experience supporting or partnering closely with executive leadership is a strong plus.
Responsibilities
• Core Business Strategy • Strategic Advisory: Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO, Engineering Leadership and Product Leads. Provide hands-on advisory across internal process design, team organizational op model, data insights and day-to-day operational decision making. You’ll ensure the team is executing on its strategic priorities throughout the year. • Strategic Advisory: • Data-Driven Insights: Deliver analysis that helps inform team performance, productivity metrics, weekly readouts, and key areas of optimization. • Data-Driven Insights: • Priortization Framework: Build and maintain the frameworks that help Engineering focus capacity on the highest-impact initiatives and make clear, defensible trade-offs when priorities compete. • Priortization Framework: • POKR Management & Tracking: Oversee and track Engineering OKRs, ensuring alignment with the company’s long-term vision and strategy; surface trends, flag risks, and keep priorities on course. • POKR Management & Tracking: • Operational Execution • Operating Cadence & Delivery: Run the operational rhythm of the org including planning cycles, milestone & dependency tracking, and delivery visibility. Ensure commitments are clear and the team consistently hits its objectives. • Operating Cadence & Delivery: • Dashboards & Reporting: Build and maintain dashboards that make goals, progress, and delivery health visible to leadership and teams. • Dashboards & Reporting: • ENG Operations Management: Handle day-to-day Engineering operations, including Linear initiatives and projects, deadline management, and project prioritization, to ensure the team meets its objectives efficiently. You will own Linear end-to-end as the org’s source of structure for work management. • ENG Operations Management: • Process Design & Automation: Identify and close operational gaps across the delivery lifecycle through improved workflows and automation, building scalable processes from the ground up. • Process Design & Automation: • Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with other Operations leads and act as the operational bridge between Engineering and its cross-functional partners (Product, BD, Finance, Legal, Marketing). • Cross-Functional Coordination: • ENG Ops Trainings: Develop and run training sessions for the Engineering team, empowering them with the tools and processes needed to succeed. • ENG Ops Trainings:
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