Ooak Data
Senior Operations Manager senior - Data & AI
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50000 –80000 EUR / yearEuropeSenior
Senior Operations Manager to lead data & AI related business workflows and team operations in Paris.
Responsibilities
- Reporting directly to Grégoire (CPO/COO & co-founder), you'll play a central role in executing and scaling our operations. You'll have significant freedom to act and real room to bring your own ideas, initiatives, and solutions.
- You'll be in charge of:
- Building and scaling our data sourcing pipeline : managing it end to end, from acquisition to delivery, and tackling the core challenges of scaling and automating it.
- Driving our data projects : owning timelines, quality, and operational efficiency across client deliverables, and coordinating the people involved.
- Improving our processes & automating : turning repetitive, manual work into reliable, automated workflows, and proposing concrete optimizations.
- Working closely with the founders on strategic and operational topics.
Requirements
- You have 6+ years of experience in operations, project management, consulting, or a fast-paced startup environment and you're looking to take real ownership in an early-stage company.
Conditions
- Entrepreneurial adventure - play a key role and live the early days of an ambitious company, right at the front line of the AI revolution.
- Backed by Y Combinator - join just as we accelerate.
- Real ownership - a genuine seat in a team being built: your opinion counts, and so does your work.
- An exceptional learning curve - work directly with the founders on strategic and operational topics, with massive room to grow.
- Offices in central Paris + 1–2 days WFH.
- Package: €55–80k/year depending on profile
- BSPCE (stock options) depending on profile
- Alan health insurance (mutuelle)
- 50% Navigo covered
How to apply
- A 30-min intro call with Grégoire (CPO/COO)
- A practical case study: Async preparation
- Debrief interview with Grégoire & Pierre-Louis (1h)
- A final fit interview with the Grégoire & Thomas (CTO) (1h)
Other
- The promise of AI agents is still unmet in complex, real-world business environments. Our mission is to make it possible for agents to reliably accomplish concrete and useful tasks.
- That’s why we're building Alexandria, the world's largest library of real-world business workflow datasets.
- Over the next 6 months, build our we'll acquire and anonymize 300+ full data ecosystems from real-world companies. This will allow us to
- become the leader of real business workflow data
- be in the best position to launch our own data research lab in early 2027 , enabling new services that help companies around the world automate their workflows with AI
- This summer we need to build our elite squad to move extremely fast and confirm our leading position on company data.
- Trust , the foundation of every relationship, internal and external. We extend it by default and value the ownership that comes with it.
- Ambition , we commit, we move fast, with tenacity and efficiency.
- Collective , team first, low ego.
- Kindness , at the heart of every interaction.
- We're building a solid, aligned, and motivated team.
- Our traction speaks for itself: we've signed 7 figures contracts with the two largest AI labs in the world , alongside recent partnerships with several smaller labs, all while being 100% bootstrapped. This summer, we're joining Y Combinator , which is accelerating everything.
- Trust - the foundation of every relationship, internal and external. We extend it by default and value the ownership that comes with it.
- Ambition - we commit, we move fast, with tenacity and efficiency.
- Collective - team first, low ego.
- Kindness - at the heart of every interaction.
- We're building a solid, aligned, and motivated team.
- Curiosity - you want to understand how things really work, in depth.
- Initiative - you propose, you try, you're not afraid to fail.
- Tenacity - long or hard tasks don't discourage you; you see them through.
- Structure & rigor - you bring order to ambiguity and care about quality and detail.
- None is a strict requirement, but we want someone who works AI-first, using AI as a daily leverage to build, automate, and move faster:
- Automation mindset - you instinctively spot repetitive work and turn it into reliable, automated pipelines.
- Building with AI - you use LLMs and AI tools to automate workflows, draft solutions, and solve problems end to end, not just to chat.
- Coding / scripting - you can write or vibe-code to automate tasks, glue systems together, and ship internal tools; or you're hungry to learn fast.
- AI literacy - genuine interest in and understanding of where the field is going (agents, RL, data).
- Fluent English - mandatory (working language with our partners and the labs).