Business Operations Lead

Partiful's mission is to cultivate friendships through social events.

We believe parties (and other social events) are the most effective way to meet new people and make friends. Our product helps you throw incredible events, starting with memorable party pages that make it easy to plan & communicate with guests — download the app to see how it works!

We're building new ways to streamline planning, connect meaningfully in the real world, and make connections between friends-of-friends. Our ultimate vision is to power everything you do in-person with your friends, eliminating the friction of bringing your most memorable experiences to life. You can read more about our mission in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Wirecutter, and USA Today. Partiful was also recently named Google’s Best App of 2024, a Finalist for Apple’s App Store Awards, and Apple’s App of the Day, and TIME's 100 Most Innovative Companies of 2025.

The Role

As a Business Operations Lead, you'll play a key role in building and scaling Partiful's operations.

In this role you will:

• Lead the Business Operations team to be an innovative, AI-native team that serves simultaneously as the backbone of the company and the swiss-army-knife of any problem that arises

• Personally execute on high-priority projects and lead members of our Ops team

• Relentlessly streamline, automate and scale processes to make every team across the business be better and more efficient, with a strong bias towards building & deploying AI wherever possible

• Identify, diagnose and fix problems, painpoints and inefficiencies across the business, no matter how small

• Source, diligence and deploy third-party tools to augment workflows

• Prototype solutions & built internal tools end-to-end using vibe coding

• Contribute to overall company strategy

You're a good fit if you:

• Have 4-8 years of experience in business operations or similar function, with a minimum of 2 years in a high-growth startup

• Have minimum 2 years experience managing people

• Have minimum 2 years of "field work" — e.g., at a physical services marketplace (delivery, rideshare), forward deployed engineering, onsite consulting, etc.

• Have experience performing self-service analytics, including SQL, python and/or dashboarding capabilities

• Are AI-native, with a bias towards creating agents and relying on AI wherever possible to streamline workflows

• Are able to inductively reason about metrics and strategy based on the facts you learn on the ground

• Are comfortable jumping into any problem to fix it, no matter how small

• Have a bachelors degree, bonus if you have an MBA

In your application, please include a note on what's got you excited about Partiful! Candidates with a wide range of backgrounds and years of experience would be a good fit for this role. Compensation will reflect the experience of the candidate and the scope of the role. The compensation range for this role is $135,000 - $180,000 depending on years of experience.

We're an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourage applicants from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We're proud to be a diverse team, and actively work to bring new perspectives to the table.