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Business Operations Manager

Campfire · San Francisco · On-site

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About Campfire

Campfire is the AI-native ERP built for lean finance teams. Automate reconciliations, close faster, and scale revenue without adding headcount. Backed by Accel, Y Combinator and Techstars.

About the role

You'll own the business behind the business. You'll be the person leadership sends in on Campfire's highest-stakes problems, including ones nobody here has solved before. You'll get problems, not tasks, and you'll be expected to take them from "this is a mess" to "this runs itself." You'll work directly with every team at Campfire, and you'll have the authority to make decisions. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • We care more about trajectory than pedigree. If you've owned hard problems end to end and have the results to show for it, we want to hear from you
  • An owner, not a coordinator. 2-4 years in business operations, top-tier consulting, banking, VC or PE, or founding a startup. You've been the person things roll up to
  • Analytical to the core. You're excellent in spreadsheets and you build models that hold up to scrutiny - you can tell the story behind the numbers
  • AI-native in how you work. You already use tools like Claude Code to automate work, build internal tools, and get more done than a team twice your size
  • Commercially sharp. You can read a contract, spot the bad clause, and negotiate a better deal with a vendor
  • A clear communicator. You can walk leadership or the board through a messy problem and leave them with a decision, and you're just as effective working alongside an AE or a support rep
More about this role

Campfire is building modern accounting software for startups and mid-size tech companies, and we're going head to head with giants like NetSuite to do it. Our AI-native general ledger runs the close, revenue recognition, and reporting for finance teams that have outgrown QuickBooks and refuse to settle for a legacy ERP.

You'll own the business behind the business. You'll be the person leadership sends in on Campfire's highest-stakes problems, including ones nobody here has solved before. You'll get problems, not tasks, and you'll be expected to take them from "this is a mess" to "this runs itself." You'll work directly with every team at Campfire, and you'll have the authority to make decisions.

The operating rhythm. Help build and run the planning, goal-setting, and metrics cadence the company runs on. Make sure every team knows the number they own and whether they're hitting it.

The numbers leadership trusts. Set the definitions for every core metric, then own the reporting for ARR, pipeline, bookings, retention, and spend. When the founders or the board ask a question, you have the answer, pulled straight from the raw data yourself.

Commercial contracts and vendors. Run vendor...

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