VP, Strategy & Business Operations

How You'll Drive Impact

• Scientific AI: A hyper-growth technology business built to meet the moment in the era of agentic science, with and for partners around the world.
• Alloy's operating engine: The technology organization that powers the next generation of Alloy's operating model in this era.
• National security: An organization that empowers our national security and program leaders to position Alloy as the trusted partner of choice for companies and nations globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business operations: Own the business operations function across technology and national security. Set its strategy and priorities, define how the organization plans and executes, and be accountable for its results. As the organization grows, build and lead a business operations team.
• Decide what we build, and why: Partner with product managers and scientific and technical leaders to pressure-test what each team is building, why it matters, and how it advances company goals. Bring the CTO clear trade-offs rather than status, and help stop work that does not earn its place.
• Build metrics with the experts: Work with subject matter experts to define objectives, key results, and product and delivery metrics that are rigorous, measurable, and owned by the teams accountable for them.
• Hold teams accountable: Hold leaders and teams to their commitments on time, on quality, and on performance. Spot slipping commitments, overlapping efforts, and work that does not tie to a priority, and bring the relevant leader and a fix before they become problems.
• Build and run the operating system: Design and run one operating rhythm across technology and national security, including weekly leadership meetings, monthly business reviews, quarterly planning and retrospectives, and annual goal setting. Establish a single source of truth for planning, execution, and review.
• Protect the CTO's judgment: Make the decisions that can be made without the CTO and frame the decisions only the CTO can make with the options, trade-offs, and recommendations needed to decide quickly.
• Deliver real-time visibility: Give the CTO current, concise visibility into progress against goals, revenue pipeline, and risks, so the CTO can engage the CEO, peers, and the board with depth at any moment. Track pipeline and deals with commercial, partnerships, and national security leaders, and translate operating data into clear narratives for executive, board, and partner audiences.
• Make every engagement deal-ready: Before major partner, government, and investor engagements, assemble the cross-organizational fact base, pre-clear what we can commit to with the leaders who will deliver it, and equip the CTO and our partnerships and national security teams to act in the room. Own the content of briefings, drawing on division leaders, while the Senior Executive Assistant handles assembly and logistics. Afterward, turn every commitment made into owned, tracked work.
• Act for the CTO: Represent the CTO and the organization with senior leaders, the CEO's office, corporate functions, and external partners and government stakeholders, and lead in the CTO's place within agreed bounds. Quarterback parallel high-stakes deliverables, such as board materials and executive presentations, so nothing slows down.
• Champion the culture: Strengthen the organization's culture of empowerment and ownership as it grows, while raising the standard of excellence the leadership team holds itself to.
• Build for hyper-growth: Identify where our processes, tools, and structures will not hold at the next stage of growth, and build what is needed. Serve as the team's primary business partner to finance, people, legal, and other corporate functions on budgeting, hiring, and planning.

Required Qualifications

• Senior operator: Typically 12 or more years of experience, including at least 5 in senior leadership roles leading business operations or strategy and operations, or serving as chief of staff to a CTO, CPO, GM, or senior government official, in a high-growth technology, biotechnology, or public-sector organization.
• Functional leader: Has owned a business operations, strategy, or similar function for a multi-team organization and been accountable for its results. Experience building and leading a team is strongly preferred.
• Builder of operating systems: A track record of designing and launching a planning, goal-setting, or operating cadence from scratch for a multi-team organization through rapid growth, with clear evidence of what changed as a result.
• Portfolio judgment: Has worked alongside product managers and technical leaders to decide what gets built and what gets cut and can walk us through a decision they shaped and how it played out.
• Metrics with experts: Has built goals and metrics together with scientific, engineering, or other subject matter experts, and held teams to them.
• Delivery accountability: Has held senior leaders and teams to delivery commitments on time, on quality, and on performance, often without formal authority, and can name leaders who would vouch for it.
• Principal readiness: Has prepared a principal for high-stakes external negotiations or government engagements and can show how that preparation changed the outcome.
• Trusted proxy and communicator: Has represented a senior executive with boards, executive teams, and external partners, including on sensitive matters, and has written board- and executive-level memos and briefings they can walk us through.
• Culture builder: Has built or turned around a team's operating culture while raising its execution standards.
• Availability: Able to travel regularly, domestically and internationally, and to flex across U.S., European, and Asian time zones when the work requires it.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technology fluency: Has worked closely with software, AI, or scientific teams, for example as a product manager, engineer, consultant, or operator in a high-growth AI or biotechnology company and can engage critically with a technical roadmap.
• Front-office experience: Senior government front-office experience, such as chief of staff, special assistant, or executive secretariat for a senior official at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, or a similar body.
• Familiarity with national security or international partnerships.