What is AbstractOps?
Right now, "corporate" functions — HR, finance, legal, compliance, vendor management — are very fragmented and inefficient, with dozens of point solutions that don't talk to each other. As a result, companies waste 10-15% of their time on things that are tedious but automatable.
This doesn't have to be the case. Think about how chaotic sales processes were before Salesforce, and how far that function has come in the couple of decades since. We're applying the same principles to rebuild the "company stack" (i.e., building an OS / connective tissue between HR, finance, legal, compliance and vendor management).
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⚙️ We're building a product that lets entrepreneurs run their company the way they'd build product: modular, reusable, and extensible processes, integrated with existing systems.
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Why should you work with us? 🤔
- 🚀 Crazy ambitious mission: we're rewriting core aspects of how every company in the world are built and run.
- 🤑 2-5x market norms for equity compensation: we don't have "founders" and "early employees" — only founding team members (more details below).
- 🎑 An abundance of emojis and gifs, wackiness, and bad jokes — we have a grown-up, thoughtful culture (on average, a member of our team has 9-10 years of experience) but we love having a playful side and a sense of humor.
- 👾 Lots of room to experiment, iterate, and build: we have a big mission, so some pieces will take a few tries (and we have 3-4 years of runway to make that happen).
- 👓 So much transparency: we try really hard to do right: by the team, clients, stakeholders. When you have nothing to hide, you can be much more open and move faster ;).
What would make you an amazing fit?
- 🔀 You love complex systems: in every function (technical or not), we work in systems, processes, relations. Thinking of 2nd / 3rd order efficiencies is our jam.
- 💗 A heart full of hustle: though we coordinate, we don't have management layers; instead, we rely on a tremendous degree of trust that we'll get our work done.
- 🧠 Raw intelligence / capability: we want each team member to add orthogonal perspectives, and upgrade our game.
- 🔍 High attention to detail: we work with sensitive data and documents, and our standards for security and precision are accordingly high.
- ⁉️ Endless curiosity: we love rethinking things just a little bit so we can figure out the most efficient, effective way to get work done.
Senior(+) Product Designer
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3-10+ years of experience at design-focused companies (i.e., we're open to either "Senior Designer" or "Principal Designer" / "Head of Design"). We'll band and compensate accordingly, and we're flexible on whether you want to pursue an IC vs. Manager track.
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Is excited by the prospect of being the first design hire at a company, and shaping the design strategy, language, and culture
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Is particularly thoughtful about interaction design, particularly in applying first principles to a new product category