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Specter

AI-powered deal-sourcing data platform

Business Operations Commercial Lead

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Business & StrategyBusiness Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate should be a high-agency generalist with strong commercial instincts.
  • The candidate should have experience in business operations, consulting, sales operations, revenue operations, strategy, investing, startup operations, or a similarly analytical commercial role.
  • The candidate should have strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • The candidate should be comfortable with data, spreadsheets, customer relationship management systems, operating metrics, and process design.
  • The candidate should be able to work cross-functionally with sales, finance, product, engineering, and leadership.
  • The candidate should have strong judgment and be able to prioritize in a fast-moving environment.
  • The candidate should be excited to create the first version of a system rather than simply inherit one.
  • The candidate should have an interest in hard industries, physical operations, critical infrastructure, defense, energy, or industrial technology.
Responsibilities
  • Help build the systems that make the company's commercial engine more repeatable, measurable, and scalable.
  • Partner with leadership and go-to-market teams on pipeline visibility, forecasting, customer materials, pricing operations, proposal support, and market analysis.
  • Turn learnings from customers and deployments into structured feedback for the business.
  • Support the company's broader operating rhythm by helping create processes, dashboards, documentation, and decision frameworks.
  • Connect commercial priorities to company planning, hiring, finance, and execution.
  • Take on ambiguous business problems and drive them from an undefined ownership state to a clear owner, process, and outcome.

About the company

Specter provides AI-powered data and deal-sourcing for private markets. It aggregates real-time data on 50M+ companies and 500M+ professionals to help VC, PE, and corporate development teams find and track investment opportunities. It surfaces insights from funding rounds, M&A activity, revenue signals, headcount growth, web traffic, product updates, and people movements, with features like hot signals, custom alerts, API, bulk data delivery, Chrome extension, and CRM enrichment. Its goal is to help clients source deals more efficiently, analyze markets more accurately, and anticipate opportunities by surfacing warm introductions and relationship networks.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • Specter's 2026 agent launch expands usage from search to active research execution.
  • Trusted by 400+ elite firms, Specter has credible distribution inside venture and private equity.
  • Updated 2026-08-28 data and live web ingestion keep alerts fresh for time-sensitive deal sourcing.

What critics are saying

  • PitchBook, Crunchbase, and CB Insights can bundle similar workflows and squeeze pricing by 2027.
  • Specter remains bootstrapped, limiting acquisition-firepower against well-funded rivals like Harmonic and Affinity.
  • If Specter Agent disappoints users, product differentiation collapses into another searchable database.

What makes Specter unique

  • Specter launched Specter Agent on 2026-09-03, automating private-market research workflows.
  • Specter combines 55M companies, 550M people, investors, and transactions in one workspace.
  • Specter serves 400+ firms, and its CRM-linked skills standardize repeatable sourcing playbooks.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Remote Work Options
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Wellness Program
  • Mental Health Support
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Stock Options
  • Company Equity
  • Conference Attendance Budget
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Home Office Stipend

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