AngelList

Venture fundraising platform with cap tables

Head of Fund Operations

Business OperationsUpdated on Nov 11

Full-timeNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

Experience building and scaling complex operations with financial, legal, tax, or compliance consequences.
Ability to explain the scale of operations managed and the results delivered.
Experience leading managers through meaningful change.
Ability to combine sound risk judgment with strong client instincts and practical technology experience.
Experience building or running strong control environments, including preventive and detective controls, clear ownership, and evidence that holds up to audit.
Ability to learn a complex domain quickly while working through experienced managers.

Responsibilities

Lead Belltower's combined Fund Services and GP Services organization, comprising about 40 people across onshore and offshore teams.
Own fund operations from formation and subscriptions through deployments and post-close actions, with distributions added over time.
Build the operations needed to serve larger institutional clients.
Lead operational changes to put AI tooling into practice, including team responsibilities, controls, training, and measures of success.
Develop managers and set clear accountability.
Improve delivery times and productivity.
Resolve root causes of errors and prevent repeat incidents.
Use operational evidence to prioritize workflow changes and safe, useful automation with Product and Engineering.
Keep the client’s experience at the center of operational decisions.

Desired Qualifications

Fund administration experience is valuable; adjacent backgrounds are also considered when supported by a clear record of learning quickly.
Interest in reshaping a complex service business with AI.

About Belltower Fund Group:

Belltower, AngelList’s funds services division, is empowering world-changing fund investments.

Belltower was formed in 2019 as AngelList’s native fund administrator. Belltower provides fund administration services to the venture space. Our coverage spans syndicates, venture funds, and first-of-their-kind rolling funds. Our full-service fund management offering streamlines the complexity of running a fund by integrating financial reporting, tax, compliance, portfolio management, and other services that managers typically have to cobble together from multiple vendors. Our services, combined with AngelList’s software, enable us to launch and scale a fund efficiently, allowing fund managers to focus on what they do best: investing.

Since 2019, Belltower has supported 27k+ funds representing over $25B in assets under administration, leveraging AngelList’s fund admin software to power the service layer for funds launched on the AngelList platform.

About the Role:

This role will lead Belltower's combined Fund Services and GP Services organization, and report to the Funds General Manager. The organization includes about 40 people across onshore and offshore teams. You’ll own fund operations from formation and subscriptions through deployments and post-close actions, take on distributions over time, and build the operations needed for larger institutional clients.

You will:

Lead operational changes to make AI tooling work in practice: team responsibilities, controls, training, and measures of success.

Develop managers, set clear accountability, and build the service capabilities needed for larger clients.

Improve delivery times and productivity.

Resolve root causes of errors and prevent repeat incidents.

Use operational evidence to prioritize workflow changes and safe, useful automation with Product and Engineering.

Keep the client’s experience at the center of operational decisions.

You may be a good fit if you:

Have built and scaled complex operations with financial, legal, tax, or compliance consequences.

Are excited by the opportunity to reshape a complex service business with AI.

Can explain the scale you managed and the results you delivered.

Have led managers through meaningful change.

Combine sound risk judgment with strong client instincts and practical technology experience.

Have built or run strong control environments: preventive and detective controls, clear ownership, and evidence that holds up to audit.

Can learn a complex domain quickly while working through experienced managers.

Fund administration experience is valuable, but we are open to adjacent backgrounds with a clear record of learning quickly. A CPA is not required.

About the Company

AngelList

Venture fundraising platform with cap tables

AngelList provides fundraising tools for startups and investors by offering a platform that includes modern cap tables, syndicates, and investor portals. Startups can raise capital and manage investor relations, while venture capitalists and angel investors participate through the platform. The product works online: startups create fundraising rounds, investors join syndicates, and cap tables and ownership are tracked within the system; fees are charged for fundraising tools and services, and the company also engages in its own investment activities. AngelList differentiates itself through its integrated suite of fundraising features, large network of startups and investors, and significant assets under management (about $15 billion), operating across the U.S., UK, Canada, and India. Its goal is to accelerate innovation by increasing the number of successful startups globally.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Series C
Total funding: $124.1M
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2010

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