Senior Operations Manager senior - Data & AI
Ooak Data · Paris, IDF, FR / Paris, Île-de-France, FR
Job Description
We're ooak data
The promise of AI agents is still unmet in complex, real-world business environments. Our mission is to make it possible for agents to reliably accomplish concrete and useful tasks.
That’s why we're building Alexandria, the world's largest library of real-world business workflow datasets.
Over the next 6 months, build our we'll acquire and anonymize 300+ full data ecosystems from real-world companies. This will allow us to
- become the leader of real business workflow data
- be in the best position to launch our own data research lab in early 2027, enabling new services that help companies around the world automate their workflows with AI
This summer we need to build our elite squad to move extremely fast and confirm our leading position on company data.
🤝 Our values
- Trust, the foundation of every relationship, internal and external. We extend it by default and value the ownership that comes with it.
- Ambition, we commit, we move fast, with tenacity and efficiency.
- Collective, team first, low ego.
- Kindness, at the heart of every interaction.
We're building a solid, aligned, and motivated team.
Our traction speaks for itself: we've signed 7 figures contracts with the two largest AI labs in the world, alongside recent partnerships with several smaller labs, all while being 100% bootstrapped. This summer, we're joining Y Combinator, which is accelerating everything.
🤝 Our values
- Trust - the foundation of every relationship, internal and external. We extend it by default and value the ownership that comes with it.
- Ambition - we commit, we move fast, with tenacity and efficiency.
- Collective - team first, low ego.
- Kindness - at the heart of every interaction.
We're building a solid, aligned, and motivated team.
🎯 Your role
Reporting directly to Grégoire (CPO/COO & co-founder), you'll play a central role in executing and scaling our operations. You'll have significant freedom to act and real room to bring your own ideas, initiatives, and solutions.
You'll be in charge of:
- Building and scaling our data sourcing pipeline : managing it end to end, from acquisition to delivery, and tackling the core challenges of scaling and automating it.
- Driving our data projects : owning timelines, quality, and operational efficiency across client deliverables, and coordinating the people involved.
- Improving our processes & automating : turning repetitive, manual work into reliable, automated workflows, and proposing concrete optimizations.
- Working closely with the founders on strategic and operational topics.
👀 What we're looking for
You have 6+ years of experience in operations, project management, consulting, or a fast-paced startup environment and you're looking to take real ownership in an early-stage company.
🧠 Soft skills
- Curiosity - you want to understand how things really work, in depth.
- Initiative - you propose, you try, you're not afraid to fail.
- Tenacity - long or hard tasks don't discourage you; you see them through.
- Structure & rigor - you bring order to ambiguity and care about quality and detail.
🛠️ Hard skills
None is a strict requirement, but we want someone who works AI-first, using AI as a daily leverage to build, automate, and move faster:
- Automation mindset - you instinctively spot repetitive work and turn it into reliable, automated pipelines.
- Building with AI - you use LLMs and AI tools to automate workflows, draft solutions, and solve problems end to end, not just to chat.
- Coding / scripting - you can write or vibe-code to automate tasks, glue systems together, and ship internal tools; or you're hungry to learn fast.
- AI literacy - genuine interest in and understanding of where the field is going (agents, RL, data).
- Fluent English - mandatory (working language with our partners and the labs).
🎁 Why join us
- Entrepreneurial adventure - play a key role and live the early days of an ambitious company, right at the front line of the AI revolution.
- Backed by Y Combinator - join just as we accelerate.
- Real ownership - a genuine seat in a team being built: your opinion counts, and so does your work.
- An exceptional learning curve - work directly with the founders on strategic and operational topics, with massive room to grow.
- Offices in central Paris + 1–2 days WFH.
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Package:
- €55–80k/year depending on profile
- BSPCE (stock options) depending on profile
- Alan health insurance (mutuelle)
- 50% Navigo covered
✏️ Recruitment process
- A 30-min intro call with Grégoire (CPO/COO)
- A practical case study:
- Async preparation
- Debrief interview with Grégoire & Pierre-Louis (1h)
- A final fit interview with the Grégoire & Thomas (CTO) (1h)
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