VP of Operations

7 Months ago • 8 Years + • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

Inkitt seeks a VP of Operations to drive business strategy, oversee daily operations, and ensure smooth execution of its publishing platform (print, audiobooks, and TV). This role involves strategic leadership, partnering with the CEO and other leaders to implement the company's vision. Operational excellence includes managing resources, driving improvements, and supporting growth initiatives. The VP will build relationships with stakeholders, manage a team (starting with 2), manage budgets, and report directly to the CEO. The ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of experience in Business Operations in Technology, strong analytical and financial modeling skills, excellent communication, and leadership abilities. Experience in Investment Banking or Management Consulting is a plus.
Must have:
  • 8+ years Business Ops experience in Tech
  • Strategic leadership & planning
  • Operational excellence & process improvement
  • Strong analytical & financial modeling skills
  • Excellent communication & leadership
  • Stakeholder management
Good to have:
  • Investment Banking/Management Consulting experience
  • MBA or MSc

Job Details

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into GalateaTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

This role requires 4 days a week at our San Francisco office.

What You’ll Do:

    • You will be a key driver in shaping business strategy, overseeing day-to-day operations and ensuring the smooth execution of Inkitt’s publishing platform (print, audiobooks and TV). 
    • Strategic Leadership: Partner closely with the CEO and the rest of the leadership team to define and implement the company’s strategic vision, ensuring alignment with our mission of being the Disney of the 21st Century.
    • Operational Excellence: Partner with Product, Marketing, Finance and Engineering teams to own the operating model, establish efficient processes, manage resources effectively, and drive continuous improvements to ensure consistent performance and growth. Support company wide strategic initiatives that will deliver the next phase of company growth and revenue acceleration.
    • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including Investors, Partners, etc. 
    • Team Management: build, lead and mentor a high-performing team across various functions, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and excellence. You’ll be managing a team of 2 to start.
    • Financial Management: Partner with our CFO to develop and manage budgets, optimize resource allocation and ensure financial stability and growth. You will be a key member of the executive team, reporting directly to the CEO.

What you'll bring:

    • An endlessly curious person who thrives on being in the middle of the action and is excited to be a part of a leading-edge technology and product innovation company.
    • A leader with 8+ years of experience across Business Operations in Technology, preferably experience with consumer technology.
    • A creative problem-solver, able to identify obstacles and present viable solutions.
    • An excellent financial modeler and deep analytical thinker, being able to craft a story from the data and take others on the journey.
    • A great communicator, with experience partnering across different functions and various levels in a company.
    • Deep analytical thinker, and ability to build financial models. 
    • Outstanding organizational and leadership abilities.
    • Excellent interpersonal and public speaking skills.
    • Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving.
    • You enjoy the experimenting and trial and error that comes with a fast-moving environment.
    • Previous experience in Investment Banking or Management Consulting is a plus.
    • BSc/BA in Business Administration.
    • MSc/MBA is a plus.
At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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About The Company

We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed. Therefore, our mission is to discover hidden talents and turn them into globally successful authors.


Inkitt is a pioneer at the forefront of Data Driven Publishing. Using an analytic and objective approach, we’ve discovered hundreds of talented authors around the world with over 50% of our published authors achieving $100,000+ in sales. We have forever changed the traditional publishing model by inventing an algorithm which analyzes users' reading behavior to identify hits, in turn removing subjectivity from the equation. This gives Inkitt the unique ability to discover hidden talents that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.


Hits that are identified by our algorithm, are then licensed to and distributed on our Galatea app where we systematically generate blockbusters by A/B testing the content of our stories. This process is our own unique creation, and something which has never before been done in the entertainment industry. 


At present, we are an international team of 85 passionate and dedicated inventors and entrepreneurs and we are growing quickly. We are proud that our mission has persuaded early investors in Google and Spotify to back us, as well as attracted talents from Netflix, Activision Blizzard, DeliveryHero, Babbel, and N26 to join us.


We invent new solutions to problems we encounter, as opposed to simply iterating upon existing solutions. 


Join us to build the Disney of the 21st Century!


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