Blavity Inc.

Vice President, Operations and Growth

Blavity Inc.

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • The Vice President of Operations & Growth, Blavity Inc. will be a senior executive responsible for scaling operations, leading new initiatives, and strengthening the company’s resilience.
  • Lead high-priority initiatives such as expanding into health or growing our consumer revenue models
  • Proactively evaluate operations and recommend new growth opportunities or efficiencies to the executive team
  • Develop and scale pilots and proof-of-concept projects, turning successful tests into repeatable, sustainable systems or products
  • Take ownership of business functions, teams or initiatives that require strategic transformation, stronger monetization, or improved systems
  • Build processes to reduce bottlenecks and improve efficiency across revenue and audience growth initiatives
  • Ensure alignment of initiatives with company-wide OKRs and KPIs
  • Fill in the gaps between departments during the launch of new programs, clarifying roles and responsibilities across existing teams
  • Act as an integrator and connector, ensuring information flows seamlessly and execution is coordinated
  • Build knowledge-sharing practices so insights and wins are institutionalized across the company
  • Design and contribute to performance frameworks for accountability (OKRs & KPIs)
  • Drive continuous improvement across workflows, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration
  • Provide operational clarity and leadership at the senior executive level
  • Drive clarity and execution discipline across the high-priority initiatives they lead, ensuring timelines, ownership, and deliverables are well defined.
  • Build repeatable systems, documentation, and knowledge-sharing practices that other teams can adopt to strengthen organizational performance.
  • Measures of Success: Driving significant improvement in company-wide operating efficiency and gross margin.
  • Successful launch and scaling of new revenue streams, specifically a Direct-to-Consumer subscription model and expansion into the Health vertical, hitting defined revenue and growth targets.
  • Enhancing organizational clarity and cross-functional collaboration, evidenced by improved project success rates and team feedback.
  • Instituting a robust performance management framework for cross-functional projects that creates accountability and aligns all teams with strategic priorities.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in operations, strategy, or growth leadership roles
  • People management experience required
  • Proven ability to directly lead teams and to drive cross-functional initiatives
  • Strong analytical and operational background with experience scaling new initiatives
  • Strong executive presence and communication skills with ability to influence at scale
  • Thrives in dynamic, ambiguous environments; excels at structuring open-ended challenges and driving them to completion
  • Preferred: Prior experience in media/publishing, revenue operations, management consulting, private equity, venture capital, or a high-growth startup (Series B+) strongly preferred
  • Track record of success in roles such as Chief of Staff, General Manager, Head of Operations, or VP/SVP of Strategy & Operations
  • Technical fluency and comfort with digital platforms, subscription models, and AI-driven tools.
  • Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
  • Candidates must be able to work at least 25% in alignment with the Pacific Time Zone.