What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operations & Strategy Manager position at Numina?
OUR MISSION
Make communities more responsive, so they are safer, healthier, and more equitable for the people who live in them.
Numina makes a hardware and software platform that uses computer vision to help urban planners and municipal governments design better (safer) streets and public places. We sense bicycle, pedestrian, and other street traffic, and convert this data into real-time intelligence - without surveillance - to enable all sorts of partners in automation, autonomy, and development in the public right-of-way. We are looking for passionate people who would like to join us as we pursue our shared vision of more responsive cities.
WHAT YOU WILL DO HERE
As Operations & Strategy Manager , you will support the CEO and executive team, running both internal- and external-facing strategic initiatives to advance business goals and optimize team operations. You are organized and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, iterate quickly, and maintain a professional, energetic, and motivational work environment amidst the fluctuating and challenging circumstances that a startup faces.
This is a part-time role with the potential to transition to full-time.
Responsibilities
Strategic Initiatives
- Act as an extension of the CEO on strategic projects - to ideate, vet, research, advocate for or against, prototype, and otherwise manage any Growth or Product projects that may advance Numina's mission to make streets more walkable, bikeable, and equitable. Lead on stakeholder management, serve as a connector within the organization, and drive key projects to operational maturity.
- Prepare and occasionally deliver executive materials and presentations. Meet with external parties, alongside or instead of company leaders such as the CEO, to represent Numina's value, capabilities, product, and interests to potential and existing partners.
- Oversee internal and external communications, as needed.
- Prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, proactively identifying and solving for gaps and inefficiencies.
- Work with high-priority customers to ensure successful project execution, with a focus on our work that intersects with frontline communities.
- Identify interventions, and design systems to validate and scale solutions that work.
- Advise leadership on best practices for climate technology companies to engage with frontline communities, resulting in a capstone project that can be shared internally and externally.
Operations
WHO YOU ARE
You have 4 years of experience, with a passion for climate justice. Ideally, you have some work experience in mobility, climate, or start ups.
Like us, you value creativity, curiosity, and intellectual honesty, and you are committed to solving problems with us together as a team. Your desire to have a huge impact motivates you to join a small, incredibly productive team and do extraordinary things. You have the following skills and competencies :
Additional experience that could be helpful :
WHO WE ARE
We strive to be a team of positive, open-minded, respectful, resilient, dedicated, accountable, logical, creative, and empathetic people. We spend our days building an amazing product that makes a real difference in the world. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with an optional office in Brooklyn, New York. We are committed to seeking and sustaining diverse perspectives on our team. We encourage women, people of color, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and others from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
We are backed by investors including betaworks, Shasta Ventures, Elemental Excelerator, URBAN-X (MINI BMW), and accomplished entrepreneur-angels. Past projects have been supported by The Clinton Foundation, The Knight Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We are a small, mission-driven company that is growing quickly. If you'd like to join our laser-focused and fast-paced team, we enthusiastically invite you to apply.
THINGS TO KNOW :
The expected compensation for this role is an hourly rate of $25 - $45.
Salary : $25 - $45