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Designed how fund ops actually runs
Not just executed against someone else's design. Workflows, controls, quality standards. You define the operating model from first principles.
The role
Shape Fund Operations.Build the engine underneath the product.
The funds product is the next launch, and what we need now is the funds expertise to actually build it. A funds product that runs itself — automated where it can be, transparent to customers, audit-ready by default. The opposite of the black box most fund admins still are.
Fund operations, SPV operations, and the finance stack that runs both. Capital calls, reconciliations, valuations, LP reporting, the ledger, tax, audit, controls. You partner with product to embed fund logic into the platform itself, and design the systems underneath that turn manual workflows into automated ones.
In this chapter
Responsibilities
The shape
of the job.
You'll report into the founders and own the commercial function end to end.
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Real technical fund mechanics
You've owned fund administration end to end across structures like UK nominees, English LPs and Delaware LPs. Capital calls, distributions, accounting, investor reporting, tax filings. Recently enough that your instincts are still calibrated.
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Technical authority under pressure
When the situation is complex — LPA interpretation, multi-jurisdictional tax, audit edge cases, MFN clauses — you can look at it and form a clear view. CFOs, GPs, and auditors come to you, not the other way around.
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Product instinct
You partner with product to embed fund logic into the platform itself. You sit in a product conversation as a peer who shapes what gets built, not a stakeholder who gets shipped to.
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Systems thinking over manual processing
You see inefficiency as a design flaw, not a fact of life. Spreadsheet-stitched workflows make you want to rebuild them. Manual reconciliation makes you want to automate it.
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Speed and bias for action
You'd rather ship a working v1 of an automated workflow in week two than design the perfect operating model by month three. You build, observe, refine.
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Ownership appetite
If something is wrong with how the operation runs, you fix it. It doesn't matter whether it's in the system, the process, the data, or someone else's lane. The accountability is yours, full stop.