What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Operations Associate position at Autopilot?
*Location: New York, NY (fully onsite 5 days)*
*Please note: We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.*
About Us:
Autopilot is a next-gen trading app and registered investment advisor (RIA) that makes professional-style investing accessible to everyone. Users can autopilot the portfolios of politicians, public figures, and top investors, or create and launch their own fund for others to follow. Built for transparency and ease of use, Autopilot reimagines how people invest, manage, and grow their money.
Series A backed by notable investors such as Craft Ventures (Airbnb, Slack, Tesla), Nomad Ventures (Intro, Bezel), Balaji Ventures (Perplexity), Next Fund (7Signal), and TTV Capital (Bill, SmartAsset).
Autopilot is ranked among the Top 30 Most Downloaded Finance Apps. With over 3M million downloads, $1B in assets under management (AUM), and 180k users.
Overview
You are driven. You are endlessly curious. You are passionate about finding creative solutions to challenges.
This role will tackle key business priorities that amplify the growth of our business and facilitate operational excellence. Using strong operational and analytical experience from past environments, this person will tackle key projects that will be instrumental in driving our business forward. We need a strategic critical thinker who can start at 20,000 feet and then dive deep into the details to ensure high quality results.
The ideal candidate for this role should have a “doer” attitude, strong strategic skills, excellent time-management and organizational habits, and the ability to clearly communicate and present information to seek buy-in.
What you'll do:
- Project manage important strategic priorities in order to optimize our business
- Working closely with other members of the team, measure the impact and efficiency of processes while identifying news way to create value to the business
- Develop frameworks to prioritize strategic opportunities that drive high ROI
- Identify operational weaknesses and help improve or innovate new processes
- Develop, communicate and operate strategic projects while communicating with senior leadership
- Be a hard-working multi-tasker, supporting teams across the region. You’ll be one of the go to people when the business requires solutions to firedrills.
What you'll need:
- 2 years of investment banking / consulting / business intelligence / strategy or related experience; high-growth operations or startup experience is a plus
- Exceptional communication and organization skills
- Ability to drives significant, high impact projects that have company wide implications and require significant cross-functional coordination and alignment
- Identify and lead new cross-functional initiatives to create value, conduct ROI analysis to improve prioritization and direct resources
- Balance attention to detail with swift execution. We need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well
- A “get it done” attitude, bias toward action, great collaboration, and master disambiguation.
- Strong Excel / data / prompting skills
Bonus points if you have:
- Knowledge of SQL, python
- Passion for Financial Markets
- Series 7, 63, 65, 79 (or other licenses)
Benefits:
- Generous UNLIMITED PTO (and we mean it!).
- Mandated two-week holiday shutdown at the end of the year for Christmas and New Year’s company holidays.
- Autopilot covers 100% of premiums for employee and dependent benefits (health, dental, vision) - coverage from day one.
- Top-of-the-line equipment: laptops, external monitors, standing desks, etc.
Salary : $110,000 - $130,000