Strategy & Operations – Senior Associate

If you’ve ever wanted to have your fingerprints on how a company scales, this is your moment. You’ll be the key operator ensuring our supply and demand flywheel turns efficiently and profitably—while directly impacting how we deliver value to businesses and workers every single day.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity, brings a builder’s mindset, and wants to lead with intensity and ownership. This role is fully on-site and perfect for a former consultant or ops leader ready to go from strategy to execution at a rapid pace.

Let’s build the future of work—starting here.

About Traba
Traba’s mission is to empower businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. We are revolutionizing the broken staffing industry through a marketplace that connects light industrial businesses with reliable talent while providing workers with flexible and meaningful opportunities. Supported by investors like Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst, our work unlocks new levels of productivity, earning potential, and growth.

About the Role
As a Senior Associate on our Worker Operations team, you will be a key player in driving the daily operations and success of your market. You will work closely with Sales, Central Operations, Tech, Product, Marketing, and more to drive growth, maintain marketplace health, and ensure profitability. This role requires someone who is comfortable both consulting and operating in a fast-paced startup environment and has experience building structured processes, driving cross-functional alignment, and leading process improvements.

What You’ll Do:

• Champion Operational Excellence: Become the go-to expert on Traba’s daily operations while enhancing efficiency and effectiveness through structured thinking and detailed process-building.

• Strategize for Success: Identify opportunities to streamline processes and develop actionable plans for improvement. Align cross-functionally to ensure processes are integrated across teams.

• Master Marketplace Dynamics: Execute user acquisition, retention, and reactivation campaigns to meet both current and future demand while building structured processes for sustained growth.

• Elevate Business Performance: Develop strategies that boost operational efficiency and elevate customer satisfaction. Implement steps to ensure the market’s continued success and scalability.

• Create Impactful Tools & Insights: Build tools, develop analyses, and set up reporting structures to facilitate data-driven decision-making and ensure alignment with business goals.

• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with multiple teams across the organization to ensure process alignment and successful execution of strategic plans, ensuring clear documentation of all processes.
  
  

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, finance, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• 3+ years of experience in dynamic roles such as consulting, investment banking, and 1-2+ years in strategy/operations at a fast-paced tech company or startup

• A methodical, process-driven approach to operations focused on both accuracy and efficiency.

• Experience building structured processes and aligning teams across functions.

• Strong leadership experience, including cross-functional collaboration and driving alignment across teams.

• High EQ, resilience, and the ability to overcome challenges quickly.

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.

• Strong organization, time management, and prioritization skills.

• Experience with SQL and no-code tools like Retool.

• Experience working with product and engineering teams to build scalable solutions.

Benefits:

• 📈 Start-up equity

• 💰 Competitive salary

• 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage

• 🍽️ Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees

• 🚍 Commuter benefit

• 🏋🏽 Gympass benefit

• ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health

Salary Range Details:
The total compensation (cash + equity) range for this role is $115,000 - $180,000, based on market data and the scope of responsibilities. For exceptionally qualified candidates, we’re open to adjusting compensation accordingly. We offer a highly competitive equity package designed to ensure you share meaningfully in the long-term success and upside of the business.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Traba is dedicated to promoting Equal Opportunity employment practices. We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristics that are legally protected by local, state, or federal regulations. We encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.

Our Values

• Dream Big: We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.

• Olympian’s Work Ethic: Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.

• Growth Mindset: We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.

• Customer Obsession: We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve these often overlooked communities’ problems.

What is light industrial labor?
Light industrial flexible staffing is a $50B labor market that encompasses entry-level jobs in warehouses & distribution centers. These workers pack boxes, load trucks, and manage warehouse operations to keep supply chains running at peak efficiency.