# Founding Operations Lead at TryNearby

- Company: TryNearby (YC S26)
- What the company does: Local creators for local businesses. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://trynearby.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $130K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trynearby/jobs/LUvHWP0-founding-operations-lead
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/trynearby-founding-operations-lead/

## About the role

Every restaurant we work with is owed a number of visits and a level of reach each month. Your job is making sure that happens across every account, every cycle. You'll know which restaurants are on track and which aren't before anyone tells you, and why. When something goes sideways you handle it. Then you make sure it doesn't come back. The AI handles the volume, but it only gets better because someone is paying attention to where it falls short.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years in operations, customer success, or account management, somewhere you owned an outcome and not just a queue
- Good with people and escalation management. You've dealt with someone upset and been the reason they stuck around
- Good with numbers. Hand you a list of accounts and targets and you can see what's off
- Scrappy. There's no playbook here and most of the time the answer is that you figure it out
- Actually interested in building. You don't need to be an engineer, but if you've never opened Replit or Claude and made something ugly that worked, this probably isn't the right role for you
- Based or willing to relocate to Orange County and able to work onsite and on the move, with some travel

Tags: Operations