Lightricks, an AI-first company, is revolutionizing how visual content is created. With a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation, Lightricks is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge technology to the creative and business spaces.
Our advanced AI photo and video generation models, including our open-source LTXV model, power our apps and platforms including Facetune, Photoleap, Videoleap, and LTX Studio, allowing creators and brands to leverage the latest research breakthroughs, offering endless control over their creative potential. Our influencer marketing platform, Popular Pays, provides creators the ability to monetize their work and offers brands opportunities to scale their content through tailored creator partnerships.
About the roleAs the Operations Director for our UK site, you are the strategic and operational lead for all day-to-day activities and long-term planning across our London office. Acting as a key local leader and partner to HQ, you are responsible for enabling business growth, supporting cross-functional collaboration, and building a thriving, high-performing environment for our UK-based teams.
You’ll manage one Operations Specialist and oversee all local G&A functions (HR, Finance, Operations, IT & Recruitment) —and work closely with senior leadership to ensure the London office runs smoothly, aligns with global goals, and provides an outstanding employee experience to our people.
We are looking for an experienced Director of Operations to join our London team on a 14 month fixed term maternity cover contract.
What you will be doing- Lead daily operations and long-term strategic planning for the UK office.
- Deliver employee experience related events and initiatives that align with our global culture and philosophy and serve the needs of local team members (e.g summer parties, happy hours, wellness weeks)
- Represent the London site in global decision-making and ensure HQ messaging is localized and well-communicated.
- Own site-wide programmes, including office expansion, vendor relationships, and compliance.
- Lead and evolve UK-specific processes and systems to support growth and operational excellence.
- Partner with global HR and local leadership to support retention and engagement initiatives.
- Manage the UK site budget in partnership with global Finance.
- 6+ years in operations management, site leadership, or general management roles with a strong background in employee experience.
- Experience working in a fast-paced tech environment.
- Must have experience delivering a varied schedule of team events including parties, happy hours, off-sites, meet-ups and workshops.
- Deep understanding of employee experience and team dynamic.
- Direct experience managing budgets for a site or business unit.
- Experience managing cross-functional teams.
- Experience working with or influencing senior leaders and C-suite.
- Ability to translate global goals into local action, and local insight into global decisions.
- Confident working across time zones, cultures, and with matrixed teams.
- Track record of leading complex, high-stakes projects (e.g. large office moves, org changes, process overhauls).
- Strong prioritisation and problem-solving skills — especially under ambiguity.
- Willingness to act as Health & Safety officer for the UK site, training will be provided.
- Exposure to global HQ/local site dynamics.
- Stock Options.
- Private Medical Insurance (Optical & Dental cover) including your loved ones.
- Life Assurance.
- £3,000p/a Transport Allowance.
- £750p/a allowance for Wellbeing & Professional Development.
- Free on-site lunches, coffee, breakfast & snacks.
- Pension Contributions (7%).
- Holiday (25 days).
- Seasonal & Anniversary Vouchers.
- Hybrid & Flexible working.
- Central London office space.
- Enhanced Parental Leave.
- Cycle-to-work Scheme.
- Season Ticket Loan.
- Volunteering Opportunities.
- Frequent social activities - away-days, happy hours, team building, yoga, creative workshops.
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What We Do
Lightricks is returning creative intelligence and power to the people who imagine and create by building open, efficient AI models and products that understand and generate the visual world. Our vision: push the limits of technology to reimagine the way creators express themselves. Big mission. Fast-moving team. Come build it with us. At our core is LTX- an open-source generative video model built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers our own products and a growing ecosystem of creative partners worldwide. We're one of the few companies globally building our own multimodal foundation models, competing directly with the world's largest AI labs. Startup speed. Experienced leadership. A product people already love. Backed by a proven business model and unicorn-scale resources. We were founded by four computer-science PhDs who never stopped thinking like researchers. That mindset still defines us: deep technical ambition, a bias toward building, and a belief that the best creative tools haven't been invented yet. The team has done it before. Lightricks' suite of apps, including the famous Facetune, has over 500 million downloads worldwide and has won numerous prestigious awards, including Apple's App of the Year, the Apple Design Award and both Apple and Google Play's Best of the Year. What makes us "us" - At Lightricks, innovation starts with people, not buzzwords. We move fast, speak plainly, and take real ownership. Impact here comes from passion, curiosity, and initiative, and from raising the bar for yourself and the people around you. We believe the best work happens together. The culture here is genuinely collaborative, people share knowledge, back each other up, and win as a team. When things click, everyone feels it. You'll have what you need to do your best work: unrestricted access to compute, tools, and resources. We're AI-native in practice- first access to the latest models, real infrastructure, and a team that learns together in real time. We move at the pace of AI, not just in what we ship, but in how we think and work. Priorities shift, the market moves, and we move with it. If you thrive on change, adapt quickly, and want to be part of a team that keeps up, you'll feel right at home. We build, break, iterate, repeat. What matters here is how you think, what you're curious about, and where you want to go.
Why Work With Us
Native frontier AI, built in-house, competing with the largest players. A product already in market, already winning customers, with a B2B story just getting started. AI-first and people-first in how we operate. Unrestricted access to tools and compute. People who push you and celebrate when you win. The right moment to be at the front.
