Founding Head of Operations — GovernGPT (Montreal)

About GovernGPT

We are YC backed, technical founders, and profitable with annual revenue from blue chip funds totalling over $2T.

About the role

• Honestly, this role is way overdue. The team is made up of two sales and 5 engineers. Basically, if it's not code and not sales, it's yours.
• Someone with high agency, organized that ensures a system runs smoothly. Someone who’s obsessed over details once the big picture makes sense.
• Then, you’d build systems around it. This role is far more execution focused than ideation focused.
• If taking a messy area, putting a clean process around it, and running it without ever missing a deadline gives you energy, keep reading.
• In this role, you will
• Finance: invoicing, collections, expenses, payroll and the monthly close with our accountant.
• Strategic projects: we hand them to you, you own them end to end.
• Internal ops: vendors, tools, office, plus customer contracts and billing logistics.
• Hiring: postings, pipeline, offers, onboarding, benefits, equity grants. End to end.
• Legal & corporate: contracts, NDAs, minute book, cap table, board resolutions. You're our point person with outside counsel.
• Systems: trackers, processes and LLM automations. Build your own army of ops agents 🦸 (This would be cherry on top but not needed)

You are

• Hyper-organized. Nothing falls through the cracks. Ever.
• Deadline-proof. Nobody who's worked with you ever had to follow up.
• Process-obsessed. You'd rather build a system once and run it perfectly than improvise every time.
• An owner and a team player. You own your domains fully, and the team winning matters more to you than credit.
• Who you'll work with and what we expect
• You report directly to the CEO & CTO. Every day. Success is when none of the founders think about ops anymore.

Your background

Here's who we picture

• A corporate or commercial lawyer who left to start or join a startup.
• A founder who ran ops for their own startup.
• An investment banking or consulting alum who moved into an operating role.
• You've worked somewhere with high standards, where mistakes had real consequences. And you've owned something yourself.
• Young, ambitious and talented is our company DNA.
• Bonus points if you know hedge funds, private equity or fund management. Or B2B software.

How you'll grow

If you succeed, you’d become our COO / VP Operations in a year or two.

How to stand out

Tell us about a system you built that still runs without you, or something complex you delivered on a tight deadline.

And what makes you different? Ran ops for your own company? Competed as an athlete? Tell us.

What working with us is like

Our values are simple: think big, make it tight, and have fun.

We're a high-trust team. We love what we do, and who we do it with.