Operations Director

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🌐 Barbados, Kenya, +2 more countries – Remote

🇧🇧 Barbados – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⚙️ Operations

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Amini

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

Artificial Intelligence • Science

Amini is a dynamic, fast-growing deep tech startup committed to building environmental data infrastructure for Africa and the tropical belt. By utilizing Geospatial Data and AI/Machine Learning, Amini aims to address environmental data scarcity in the global south. The company fosters a culture of inclusivity and diversity, supporting its mission to create significant opportunities for over 1 billion lives. Amini's innovative platform combines the largest catalogue of satellite and ground truth data available for the tropical belt, reflecting its vision of transforming Africa and enabling its communities.

📋 Description

• Run how Amini delivers internally and for customers • Act as COO for the first 6–9 months while the COO is on maternity leave • Own the internal operating engine, turning signed deals into successful customer deployments • Ensure financial viability and alignment of team plans with company strategy • Lead coordination of customer proposals, tenders and presentations across Commercial/BD, Technology, Data Science, Finance and Legal • Own commercial structuring and pricing, including pricing models, deal economics, margin and contract terms • Build repeatable bid processes, templates and pricing tools • Own the customer journey from contract signature through onboarding to long-term delivery • Oversee delivery across the customer portfolio and track deliverables, milestones and dependencies • Lead executive-level customer governance, steering committees and quarterly reviews • Identify delivery risks, resolve escalations and maintain customer satisfaction • Build scalable onboarding and delivery processes • Coordinate the executive team on strategic planning, annual and quarterly planning cycles and OKRs • Align departmental strategies, plans and roadmaps with the overall company plan • Run executive meetings, business reviews, KPIs and decision tracking • Hold teams accountable and surface trade-offs for CEO and executive-team decisions • Lead the PMO across business functions and customer programmes • Maintain visibility of priorities, resourcing, dependencies and risks • Report regularly to the CEO, executive team and board on progress and delivery health • During acting COO cover, oversee strategic finance, investor reporting, legal and contracts, compliance, company secretarial matters and governance • Run the ESOP, including grants, vesting, records and staff communications • Line-manage and develop the Head of Finance, Operations Associate and PMO Lead • Build the operations team and hire as the business grows • Model Amini's culture and values as a senior leader

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in operations, strategy, commercial or consulting roles • At least 3–5 years in a senior leadership role such as Operations Director, COO, Chief of Staff or VP Operations • Experience running operations in a scaling B2B technology, data or SaaS business, ideally venture-backed • Track record of leading complex enterprise customer delivery and onboarding programmes • Hands-on experience with commercial structuring, pricing and leading large proposals or public and private sector tenders • Strong financial literacy, including budgeting, forecasting, runway planning and investor or board reporting • Working knowledge of contracts, compliance, company secretarial matters and share option schemes • Experience managing external legal and accounting advisers • Experience leading strategic planning and coordinating an executive team • Experience managing and developing people, including senior finance and project professionals • MBA, accounting or finance qualification, or legal background is nice to have, not required • Preferred locations: Barbados, Kenya, the UK or the UAE; flexible for the right person

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment • Remote work with travel as required • Flexible location for the right person • Opportunity to shape a whole part of a growing business • Opportunity to work on real contracts with governments • Opportunity to work with a small, highly skilled, non-hierarchical team • Opportunity to lead and develop an operations team • Employee share option plan (ESOP) participation/administration is part of the role

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