Venture Operations & Growth Lead

The Ops Lab, a founder-led venture-building and startup advisory studio, is seeking a Venture Operations & Growth Lead to join their remote team based in Pakistan. This full-time role operates from 1pm to 10pm UK time with a one-hour break. The Ops Lab supports ambitious entrepreneurs by transforming early ideas into viable businesses, products, and scalable systems. As the company enters a new phase of growth, this role will be pivotal in driving both The Ops Lab’s expansion and the successful launch of ventures and products for clients and internal projects.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the growth of The Ops Lab by identifying strong customer segments, developing targeted campaigns, and managing growth across content, partnerships, referrals, outbound activities, and paid channels. Strengthen positioning, messaging, and conversion strategies while running measurable growth experiments and tracking commercial performance.

- Drive venture and product launches by researching markets, validating startup ideas, defining value propositions and business models, coordinating MVPs and prototypes, and executing launch plans. Collect customer feedback to inform product decisions and build repeatable processes to accelerate future launches.

- Manage founder and client operations by onboarding founders, setting clear expectations, translating meetings into actionable plans, and maintaining momentum. Coordinate work among clients, consultants, and specialists, while identifying risks and challenging assumptions to ensure evidence-based decisions and high-quality support.

- Oversee internal operations by translating company priorities into weekly plans, creating dashboards for visibility, improving SOPs and automations, managing projects and deadlines, and removing bottlenecks. Take ownership of execution to protect leadership’s time and maintain consistent progress.

- Uphold a standard of urgency balanced with quality by taking initiative, moving quickly from discussion to execution, asking insightful questions, communicating issues early, and maintaining high standards across multiple priorities. Demonstrate a strong commitment to outcomes rather than mere activity.

Required Qualifications

- Proven experience in growth marketing, startup operations, venture building, product marketing, consulting, or business development with a commercial focus.

- Practical knowledge of customer acquisition, positioning, funnels, conversion, and retention strategies.

- Experience launching or scaling startups, products, services, or new business initiatives.

- Excellent project management and operational skills with strong commercial judgment and prioritization abilities.

- Proficient in spoken and written English with the confidence to lead meetings and professionally challenge founders.

- Ability to synthesize unstructured information into clear plans and decisions, supported by strong research and analytical skills.

- Familiarity with CRMs, project management tools, spreadsheets, analytics platforms, and AI tools.

- Capability to coordinate diverse teams and work independently in a fast-paced remote environment.

- A strong bias toward action, experimentation, and delivering measurable results.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

Experience working with startup founders, professional services firms, digital products, or early-stage ventures is highly valued. While a degree is appreciated, demonstrated exceptional execution and ownership are prioritized.

This role offers the opportunity to shape a growing company, gain exposure to multiple industries and business models, and take real ownership beyond assigned tasks. You will collaborate closely with the founder and senior leaders, launching ventures and products from inception. The position promises rapid professional growth across growth, operations, strategy, and venture building, with potential advancement into senior leadership. The Ops Lab fosters a culture of honest thinking, high standards, experimentation, and speed, providing a dynamic environment for motivated professionals.