About Cohesion
Cohesion is a smart building technology company offering a suite of software products, AI solutions, and advisory services that integrates people, systems, and spaces for real estate, providing seamless solutions for modernized security access control, smart maintenance, enhanced people experiences, and energy management.
About the Position
Cohesion is hiring an Operations Manager to own the administrative, operational, compliance, customer-readiness, and cross-functional coordination work required to keep the business running cleanly and consistently. This role replaces selected responsibilities previously held by the Chief of Staff, but it is intentionally scoped as an execution and coordination role, not an executive proxy role. The Operations Manager will drive operational discipline across HR administration, vendor coordination, customer preparation, internal systems, compliance calendars, leadership meeting logistics, CRM hygiene, and product and data coordination. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across executive leadership, Sales, Customer Success, Product, Data, Accounting, HR, and external vendors. This person must have strong judgment around governance boundaries, especially around finance and accounting ownership. This is a startup environment, and nothing here is standard. Roles shift, people pitch in across functions, everyone wears multiple hats, and hours can be unpredictable when something needs to get done. Having fun is a requirement, not a perk. We want nerds — people who get genuinely curious about problems — and who are eager to get proficient with AI tools and bring them into the everyday work.
What you will do
Company Operations and Administration
- Own the operating cadence for core administrative processes, including recurring task lists, checklists, documentation, trackers, and follow-up workflows.
- Maintain SOPs, internal documentation, operating calendars, vendor trackers, contact directories, and transition materials.
- Coordinate company-wide meetings, leadership syncs, all-hands meetings, and other recurring internal meetings, including agenda preparation, logistics, follow-ups, and action item tracking.
- Support contract routing by ensuring vendor and customer contracts are sent to the correct internal owner for review, approval, and signature.
- Coordinate with IT and internal stakeholders on software access, hardware needs, user provisioning, and system access changes.
- Track software license inventory, SaaS renewals, seat counts, owner assignments, and usage to reduce waste and avoid missed renewals.
- Support office and facilities coordination as needed, including mail handling, supplies, building access, conference room coordination, and office vendor communication.
Vendor, Insurance, and Compliance Coordination
- Maintain the vendor list, renewal calendar, contract tracker, and vendor relationship notes.
- Coordinate vendor renewals by collecting information, confirming internal business owners, preparing materials, and routing decisions to the appropriate approver.
- Track recurring compliance obligations, including state registrations, annual reports, registered agent matters, insurance renewals, business licenses, and related filings.
- Coordinate with external partners, including registered agents, insurance brokers, legal counsel, IT providers, CPA or accounting firms, and operational vendors.
- Support insurance renewal processes by coordinating information requests, certificates of insurance, payroll or headcount inputs, and renewal timelines.
- Maintain a compliance calendar with owners, due dates, escalation paths, completion status, and supporting documentation.
- Escalate compliance risks, unclear ownership, or missed deadlines to the CEO promptly.
Customer Readiness and Customer Health Operations
- Prepare internal teams for customer meetings, executive business reviews, renewals, escalations, onboarding checkpoints, and strategic customer discussions.
- Maintain and update the customer health dashboard, including account status, risk indicators, adoption notes, open issues, renewal dates, key contacts, next steps, and accountable owners.
- Coordinate with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Data to ensure customer-facing materials are accurate and ready before meetings.
- Track customer risks, open action items, escalations, commitments, and follow-ups across teams.
- Ensure customer commitments are documented, assigned to the correct owner, and tracked through completion.
- Support the development of customer narratives, success stories, risk summaries, and operational updates for leadership review.
- Partner with account owners to ensure CRM records and customer health data are clean, current, and actionable.
Product and Data Coordination
- Work with Product, Data, Sales, and Customer Success to translate customer feedback, operational blockers, reporting gaps, and recurring customer requests into clearly documented stories or tickets.
- Prepare business context for product and data requests so technical teams understand customer impact, priority, expected outcome, and timing.
- Track product and data follow-ups related to customer commitments, dashboard accuracy, reporting gaps, and operational improvements.
- Organize customer evidence, usage information, pain points, and business impact to support prioritization discussions.
- Ensure stories and tickets include clear acceptance criteria, customer context, affected accounts, deadlines where applicable, and internal owner.
- Maintain visibility into customer-impacting product or data work so leadership and customer-facing teams can communicate accurately.
CRM and Data Hygiene
- Maintain CRM hygiene, including deduplication, missing field cleanup, stale record review, lead routing checks, customer status updates, and account ownership accuracy.
- Monitor lead assignment and routing to ensure new leads are assigned within defined service-level expectations.
- Coordinate with Sales and Customer Success leadership to ensure account records, contact data, customer status, and pipeline or customer information remain accurate.
- Run recurring CRM hygiene reviews and flag gaps, inconsistencies, process breakdowns, or ownership issues.
- Support dashboards and reporting inputs by ensuring operational and customer data is reliable.
HR and People Operations Coordination
- Coordinate administrative HR processes in partnership with external HR, payroll, managers, and leadership.
- Support employee onboarding logistics, including paperwork coordination, systems access tracking, equipment coordination, orientation scheduling, and internal announcements.
- Support employee offboarding logistics, including access revocation coordination, exit process tracking, documentation routing, and handoff checklists.
- Coordinate recruiting logistics, including job description preparation, job postings, candidate tracking, interview scheduling, and hiring manager follow-up.
- Coordinate performance review logistics, including scheduling, form distribution, completion tracking, and reminder management.
- Help maintain employee documentation, handbook distribution, training reminders, and HR-related administrative records.
- Escalate employee relations, complaints, performance issues, legal concerns, or sensitive HR matters to the CEO, external HR, or legal counsel.
Executive and Leadership Support
- Support the CEO and leadership team with operational follow-through, preparation, coordination, and documentation.
- Prepare agendas, action item lists, decision logs, and follow-up trackers for leadership meetings.
- Support board or investor-related preparation when requested by gathering operational updates, customer health summaries, and cross-functional inputs.
- Ensure leadership decisions become assigned actions with owners, deadlines, and follow-up cadence.
- Serve as an operational coordinator across departments, not as a substitute executive decision-maker.
Required Qualifications
- 5 to 10 years of experience in operations, business operations, revenue operations, customer operations, people operations, or a similar cross-functional role.
- Strong project management and follow-through skills.
- Experience managing recurring processes, trackers, dashboards, SOPs, and cross-functional action items.
- Strong written communication skills and ability to summarize status, risks, blockers, and next steps clearly.
- Comfort working across executive leadership, Sales, Customer Success, Product, Data, Accounting, HR, and external vendors.
- Experience with CRM systems, customer dashboards, project management tools, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, and SaaS administration.
- Strong judgment around confidentiality, governance, approvals, and escalation.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving startup or scale-up environment without creating process debt.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in B2B SaaS, proptech, smart buildings, real estate technology, workplace technology, or enterprise software.
- Experience supporting customer health dashboards, customer success operations, or revenue operations.
- Experience working with Product and Data teams to document customer needs, product gaps, user stories, or reporting requirements.
- Experience with Zoho CRM, Monday.com, Linear, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Adobe Sign, Rippling, or similar tools.
- Experience coordinating compliance calendars, vendor renewals, insurance renewals, or HR administration.
