Full-Time

Founding Business Operations Manager

Updated on 8/1/2026

Nooks

Nooks

201-500 employees

Virtual sales floor platform for coaching

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Operations & Logistics (1)
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Data Visualization
Financial analysis
Data Analysis
Investment Banking

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Requirements
  • 3–10 years of experience in Business Operations, Strategy, Consulting, Investment Banking, Finance, Chief of Staff, or a similar analytical role.
  • Strong analytical ability and comfort working with data to drive decisions.
  • Experience operating in or advising a high-growth technology company.
  • Ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and solve complex, unstructured problems.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong organizational ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.
  • A strong bias toward action and ownership.
  • Enjoyment of working directly with senior leaders on high-stakes decisions.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with company leadership to drive strategic initiatives from concept to execution.
  • Own core business planning processes, including annual planning, quarterly objectives and key results, headcount planning, and resource allocation.
  • Build and maintain operating cadences that improve alignment, accountability, and execution across teams.
  • Analyze business performance and develop insights that inform key company decisions.
  • Create dashboards, reporting frameworks, and metrics that help leaders understand the health of the business.
  • Lead cross-functional projects spanning Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, and Recruiting.
  • Identify operational bottlenecks and design scalable processes that enable growth.
  • Support executive decision-making through financial, operational, and strategic analysis.
  • Evaluate new opportunities, investments, and business initiatives through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
  • Prepare executive materials, board content, and strategic recommendations for leadership discussions.
  • Ensure the company's most important priorities move forward quickly and effectively.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience operating in a high-growth technology company or advising one.
  • Experience in Business Operations, Strategy, Consulting, Investment Banking, Finance, Chief of Staff, or a similar analytical role.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong ability to move between strategy and execution, manage ambiguity, solve complex unstructured problems, and manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.

Nooks.ai is a virtual collaboration and sales enablement platform for SDRs and BDRs that reproduces the energy of a physical sales floor online. It provides native video conferencing, virtual bullpens, and live call listening to support real-time coaching, quick feedback, and collective dialing. The platform integrates with existing sales tools and tracks outbound activity like calls, meetings, and conversion rates through a subscription model for teams of various sizes. Its goal is to boost outbound connections and meetings by enhancing teamwork and providing actionable analytics for managers and reps.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$70M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • Reps achieve 150 dials per hour using AI parallel dialing that skips voicemails and bad numbers[2].
  • The AI Sales Assistant Platform drives 2–3x pipeline generation per rep shortly after adoption[4].
  • AI Prospector launched March 2025 reduces manual research by analyzing real-time buying signals[9].

What critics are saying

  • Klenty offers similar features at 40–60% lower cost, risking 50–70% price erosion in 6–12 months[4].
  • Microsoft and Salesforce embedding native AI dialers eliminates standalone Nooks need within 12–18 months[4].
  • Zero visibility in major LLMs blocks enterprise AI-search adoption, with 60–80% risk in 6–12 months[8].

What makes Nooks unique

  • Nooks is the only platform combining AI dialing, prospecting, and coaching in one unified workflow[10].
  • It recreates physical sales-floor energy with virtual bullpens and live call listening for real-time coaching[1].
  • Nooks integrates natively with ZoomInfo’s GTM.AI to refresh 70% of stale contact data annually[1].

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Headcount

6 month growth

-17%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

10%
SalesTech Star
Oct 24th, 2024
Nooks announces $43M Series B and launches AI Sales Assistant Platform

Nooks announced the launch of the first AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP) with $43 million in Series B funding.

PR Newswire
Apr 24th, 2024
Nooks Raises $22M for AI Sales Tools

Nooks has raised $22M to enhance sales development by automating manual tasks with AI. The platform, designed by CEO Dan Lee, aims to free reps from busywork, allowing them to focus on strategic selling aspects. Nooks features include an AI Dialer for automating calls, AI Research for personalizing scripts, Nooks Numbers for updating contact data, and Call Analytics for performance insights. This innovation promises to make sales reps 10x more productive by leveraging AI tools.

VC News Daily
Apr 24th, 2024
Nooks Raises $15M Series A Funding

Nooks, an AI dialing and prospecting platform, has secured $15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Lachy Groom and included follow-on investment from Tola Capital. This brings Nooks' total funding to $20 million.

Nooks
Aug 8th, 2023
Nooks named one of 20 rising stars as a part of Forbes' Cloud 100 list

Nooks is named one of the 20 Rising Stars as part of the eighth annual Forbes 2023 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

Nooks
Jun 13th, 2023
Nooks Hosts $1000 AI Dialer Competition

Nooks is partnering with The Call Guys to bring together 18 top Sales Development Reps in the B2B tech community to compete for $1000 using the virtual sales floor and AI parallel dialer.