Operations - Generalist / Business Operations

About the role

The Operations team at Valthos is responsible for keeping the company running smoothly. This includes managing facilities, IT, office management, vendor relationships, travel arrangements, and other tasks necessary to ensure the team remains productive. The role is highly collaborative and requires the ability to handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Own the company's day-to-day operations: facilities, IT, office management, vendor management, travel, and anything else required to keep the team productive
• Build the financial backbone of the company: construct and maintain financial models, scenario-plan budget and runway, partner with external accounting on close, and run spend, payroll, and treasury as needed
• Stand up core business infrastructure, including equity administration, benefits, payroll, corporate policies, compliance, and vendor systems, choosing tools pragmatically and replacing them when we outgrow them
• Support recruiting and people operations end-to-end: source candidates, run scheduling, manage offers and onboarding, and help architect the culture and operating cadence of the company
• Lead special projects that do not fit neatly into anyone else's job description, from standing up security and clearance workflows, to opening a new office, to running internal offsites and all-hands
• Provide operational support to commercial and government engagements as needed, helping the team move proposals, contracts, and procurement workflows across the finish line
• Serve as the operational face of Valthos with external partners (investors, regulators, contractors, and vendors), and represent the company with the same bar of care as a founder would
• Closely monitor and analyze data to provide actionable insights to the leadership team
• Close the feedback loop between the team and our partners: translate what you learn from investors, customers, and vendors into the decisions and priorities that shape how we run

Requirements

• 3+ years in a high-ownership, high-tempo operational role, such as early-stage startup operator, chief of staff, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or venture capital
• Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end in ambiguous environments, with minimal structure and minimal supervision
• Strong financial and analytical fluency; comfortable building models in Excel, running scenario analyses, and reasoning from numbers under time pressure
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You will draft memos, investor updates, and internal and external materials that need to meet the bar of the most senior people in the room
• A high attention to detail and organization. You are the kind of person who makes sure the details no one else is tracking are handled
• A high ownership and a bias to action. You would rather unblock the team by fixing something yourself than wait for someone else to do it
• Comfort operating across extremes: one hour on the floor of the office, the next with a senior government stakeholder or a top-tier investor
• Willingness to travel when needed, including to customer sites

Qualifications (preferred)

• Experience at a high-growth startup, ideally as one of the first non-engineering hires
• Experience setting up finance and people ops systems from scratch
• Experience with early-stage fundraising
• Experience in defense tech, national security, or government contracting