Operations Manager IV
Job Location:
Menlo Park, CA - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 70 - 80
Posted:
25 October 2026 (10 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
22 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Role: Operations Manager IV
Location: Remote
Duration: 8 Months
Core Responsibilities
1. Internal Approvals Facilitation (ATP / CA)
Location: Remote
Duration: 8 Months
Core Responsibilities
1. Internal Approvals Facilitation (ATP / CA)
- Run the weekly approval cadence end to end: intake materials prep pre-read routing tracking and follow-through
- Quality-control approval decks and intake submissions against templates distinguish legitimate gaps from missing information and chase down owners
- Maintain the approvals tracker as the source of truth: submission dates return dates actual approval dates and links to decks and approval records
- Coordinate cross-functional team sign-offs (finance space legal DEC energy) and keep stakeholders aligned on SLAs
- Support preparation and logistics for live deal reviews including deck assembly and post-meeting follow-up
- Maintain the approvals hub site process documentation workflow diagrams and glossary
2. Tooling Implementation & Testing
- Serve as business-side implementation and testing lead for the teams new portfolio management platform as it replaces legacy spreadsheets and trackers
- Define and test requirements for approval workflows notifications and phase-transition gates; log and triage feedback with the engineering team
- Validate data quality and field mapping; drive cleanup and migration of legacy records
- Support access control administration and routing of access requests
- Run user testing sessions build testing scenarios and capture structured feedback
3. Leadership Communications
- Draft clear concise updates and announcements for director and VP audiences tailored to differing stakeholder preferences
- Prepare pre-reads summaries and status updates ahead of leadership reviews
- Maintain distribution lists and notification groups; ensure the right people get the right level of detail
4. Reporting
- Maintain and improve dashboards and recurring reporting on approvals status pipeline and cycle time including a 2-week and 30-day look-ahead
- Produce recurring operating reviews and ad hoc analyses for leadership
- Partner with data and analytics counterparts to align reporting on common sources of truth
5. Process Improvement
- Document current-state workflows surface gaps and bottlenecks (including the limbo states between formal steps) and propose scalable fixes
- Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort in deck assembly tracking and notifications
- Build and maintain playbooks templates and standards so processes survive personnel changes
6. Change Management
- Plan and execute rollout and adoption for process and tooling changes: comms plans training sessions office hours and user guides
- Coordinate train the trainer enablement across teams
- Track adoption gather feedback and iterate
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years in business operations program/project coordination or process management
- Demonstrated experience running a recurring deadline-driven process with executive stakeholders
- Experience gathering requirements and partnering with engineering or product teams on internal tool implementation and UAT
- Proficiency with Google Workspace (Docs Sheets Slides) and project tracking tools
- Strong written communication including the ability to write concisely for senior leadership
- Analytical and organizational skills with high attention to detail while managing many parallel workstreams
- Capacity to maintain confidentiality and handle highly sensitive information with discretion
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in data centers real estate development energy infrastructure or capital projects
- Experience with internal approval governance or capital-authorization processes
- Experience with data visualization or dashboarding tools
- Experience with change management and user adoption for internal platforms
- Certification in project management or operations management (e.g. PMP Agile)
Required Experience:
Manager