Strategy and Operations Manager (AI-Native Business Operations)

Location: San Jose, California, United States; hybrid working environment with some in-office and/or in-person expectations.

Salary: 147,900–220,000 USD, with the final offer determined by location, qualifications, experience, and education.

Company

hirify.global provides intelligent data infrastructure, unified storage, integrated data services, and enterprise AI and multicloud solutions.

What you will do

• Build plans and forecasts for product-organization people, resources, engineering capacity, hiring, attrition, backfills, and investment themes.
• Manage product spending with Finance across headcount, open requisitions, software, cloud, and AI, identifying opportunities to consolidate, renegotiate, or stop spend.
• Advise vice presidents and their staff by translating data into recommendations and leading planning cycles and leadership reviews.
• Turn strategic priorities into operating programs by defining scope, milestones, plans, checkpoints, measurement, and leadership updates.
• Build AI-powered agents, automations, and dashboards using Claude and other team tools to reduce recurring effort.
• Maintain trusted connected data, validation checks, and audit trails while partnering with Finance, HR, Talent Acquisition, IT, data owners, and engineering leadership.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience, including at least 3 years in consulting.
• Experience in a management consulting strategy, operations, or analytics practice; a business operations, strategy and operations, or FP&A team at an AI-first technology company; or a founding or early operating role at a startup building AI-native products.
• Uses AI as the default way of working across analysis, writing, and building, with examples demonstrating this approach and validation for accuracy.
• Ability to learn new domains, systems, and data quickly and work effectively when the problem is still being defined.
• Expertise in scenario and financial modeling, including headcount, cost, and what-if models, with the judgment to identify incorrect numbers.
• Hands-on data skills: reading data architectures and schemas, writing joins in SQL or Python, cleaning and deduplicating records, and validating formats and keys before using data.
• Track record of influencing directors and vice presidents without authority through recommendations that were acted on.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including productive disagreement and adapting recommendations as evidence changes.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Claude Code or Cursor.
• Experience with workforce or finance data in systems such as Workday or Snowflake.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work designed to support connection, collaboration, and culture, with in-office and/or in-person expectations communicated during recruitment.
• Benefits may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, performance-based incentives, employee stock purchase plans, and restricted stock units, subject to regional variations and local laws.
• Culture emphasizes initiative, impact, ownership, bold thinking, problem solving, flexibility, inclusion, and work-life balance.
• hirify.global supports an inclusive workplace and reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed only when submitted through the company website; emailing employees, recruiters, or Human Resources does not influence the application.
• Some hiring stages may use AI-assisted evaluation tools with human review. Candidates may request an alternative process by emailing careers@hirify.global.com with a resume, the job ID, and “Data Privacy Request” in the subject line.