
Operations Manager
NEAR Foundation
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in the World
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About the role
- Ensure all documentation and contracts are complete and accessible
- Execute and track payments reliably
- Maintain operational oversight across HoS initiatives
- Create structured, audit-ready systems
- Enable Governance leadership to focus on strategy rather than administration
- Ensure all contracts, amendments, and supporting documents are properly executed and stored
- Maintain a centralized contract tracker
- Track approval workflows and ensure no agreements proceed without required sign-offs
- Ensure documentation is audit-ready and systematically organized
- Prepare and execute (crypto and FIAT) payment requests
- Ensure documentation and approvals are complete before payment processing
- Track payment status and reconcile commitments
- Maintain budget visibility across HoS activities
- Maintain a live overview of all HoS initiatives and commitments
- Track milestones, dependencies, and execution risks
- Flag delays, compliance gaps, or missing documentation
- Develop lightweight reporting dashboards for leadership
- Design scalable operational workflows
- Create clarity around handoffs between Governance, Legal, and Finance
- Introduce structured templates and standards
- Reduce operational ambiguity and institutional risk
Requirements
- 5+ years in operations, legal ops, program management, or similar
- Experience coordinating with Legal and Finance teams
- Experience managing contracts and documentation workflows
- Strong organizational and tracking skills
- High risk awareness and attention to detail
- Experience building or formalizing operational systems
Benefits
- ECOSYSTEM-FIRST: always put the health and success of the ecosystem above any individual's interest
- OPENNESS: operate transparently and consistently share knowledge to build open communities
- PRAGMATISM OVER PERFECTION: find the right solution not the ideal solution and beat dogmatism by openly considering all ideas
- MAKE IT FEEL SIMPLE: strive to make the complex feel simple so the technology is accessible to all
- GROW CONSTANTLY: learn, improve and fail productively so the project and community are always becoming more effective
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
contract managementpayment processingbudget managementreporting dashboardsoperational workflowsdocumentation workflowsaudit readinessrisk managementmilestone trackingcompliance tracking
Soft Skills
organizational skillsattention to detailcommunication skillscoordination skillsstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingleadershipadaptabilitycollaborationtime management