What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Operations - Generalist position at Nominal?
About Nominal
Nominal is building the software infrastructure that powers the world’s most advanced hardware systems – from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation industrial machines. Our platform ingests high-rate telemetry, validates complex autonomy software in real time, and helps engineering teams iterate faster, without sacrificing safety or precision. We’re a small, fast-moving team of engineers and operators who own problems end-to-end, work across disciplines, and thrive on solving challenges at the intersection of hardware and software. As a dual-use platform, we're serving top-tier commercial and defense customers, including the U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, Anduril, General Atomics, and more.
We’re backed by top-tier investors – Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures – who share our mission to accelerate innovation in mission-critical systems. Our team brings experience from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Tesla, Bain & Company, and other leading companies, united by a common goal: enabling hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology with speed, safety, and precision.
We're looking for a versatile operator to help build out Nominal's Business Operations function during a period of high growth. You'll work across finance, go-to-market, and strategic projects, with exposure to nearly every part of the business. This is a role for someone who thrives on variety, moves fast, and is energized by doing whatever it takes to help a company scale. Beyond the core work, you could find yourself tackling product usage analytics, strategic partnerships, talent brand building, international expansion, office procurement, offsite planning, OKRs and goal-setting, performance management, and more.
What you'll do
ITAR RequirementsTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.
The base pay range for this role is $110,000 – $210,000 per year.
Nominal is building the software infrastructure that powers the world’s most advanced hardware systems – from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation industrial machines. Our platform ingests high-rate telemetry, validates complex autonomy software in real time, and helps engineering teams iterate faster, without sacrificing safety or precision. We’re a small, fast-moving team of engineers and operators who own problems end-to-end, work across disciplines, and thrive on solving challenges at the intersection of hardware and software. As a dual-use platform, we're serving top-tier commercial and defense customers, including the U.S. Navy, United States Air Force, Anduril, General Atomics, and more.
We’re backed by top-tier investors – Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures – who share our mission to accelerate innovation in mission-critical systems. Our team brings experience from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Tesla, Bain & Company, and other leading companies, united by a common goal: enabling hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology with speed, safety, and precision.
We're looking for a versatile operator to help build out Nominal's Business Operations function during a period of high growth. You'll work across finance, go-to-market, and strategic projects, with exposure to nearly every part of the business. This is a role for someone who thrives on variety, moves fast, and is energized by doing whatever it takes to help a company scale. Beyond the core work, you could find yourself tackling product usage analytics, strategic partnerships, talent brand building, international expansion, office procurement, offsite planning, OKRs and goal-setting, performance management, and more.
What you'll do
- Drive financial planning and analysis: Support FP&A, budgeting, and investment planning. Assist with fundraising as needed, and help manage investor relations.
- Build scalable go-to-market infrastructure: Formalize marketing, sales collateral, demos, documentation, pricing, and contracts. Help systematize sales processes as we grow.
- Support new market entrance: Perform targeted research on new products, verticals, or geographies. Articulate value propositions and manage logistics for new initiatives.
- Strengthen how we operate: Establish and maintain organizational processes and help build a best-in-class culture as the team scales. Work cross-functionally to build alignment across the business to solve novel problems.
- Pitch in wherever needed: Talent, compliance, communications – you'll do whatever it takes to accelerate the pace and raise the quality bar at Nominal.
- 2 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, internal strategy & operations, or other fast-paced environments
- Comfort operating across functions and context-switching between different types of work; dynamic responsibilities excite you
- High EQ and the ability to work with a variety of personalities, functions, and seniority levels; you know how to generate buy-in without relying on hierarchy
- Strong analytical skills, with a bias toward thinking in quantitative results
- Problem solver with end-to-end ownership, from issue framing to resolution
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Clear communicator, both written and verbal
- Willingness to do whatever needs doing, quickly; low ego and bias to action
- Familiarity with defense, aerospace, or hardware industries
- Technical fluency or engineering background is a plus
- TS/SCI clearance
ITAR RequirementsTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.
- 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.
- 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
The base pay range for this role is $110,000 – $210,000 per year.
Salary : $110,000 - $210,000