The Role
The Finance and Business Operations Lead will manage financial operations, vendor relationships, compliance, and build operational processes for a high-growth startup.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Us:
Bluesky's vision is to make social more like the web itself. We're building a social media app, but beyond that, we've created a protocol that supports a broad ecosystem of applications and clients. Imagine a network of applications — from microblogging to photos to video to long-form writing — all interconnected and accessible with a shared identity.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Finance & Business Operations Lead to own the financial and business infrastructure at Bluesky. You'll be the person who keeps the business itself healthy: finances, compliance, vendors, legal coordination, and the stewardship work that protects the company's ability to operate.
Key Responsibilities:
Tools & Vendor Administration
- Support tool procurement and onboarding, and maintain ongoing vendor relationships in partnership with the teams those vendors serve
- Research and analyze vendors, tools, and partners relevant to strategic initiatives; bring structured recommendations to leadership
- Track subscription costs, flag redundancies, and manage renewals proactively
Financial Operations
- Track budgets across teams, approving reimbursements, and flag variances before they become problems
- Prepare financial reporting support, investor reporting, and board materials in coordination with the Strategy & Operations Senior Manager and COO
- Manage invoice routing and expense reconciliation in coordination with our Operations Admin and our fractional finance team
- Coordinate with the Recruiting team, our fractional finance team, and members of the leadership team to develop funding plans for headcount to support company strategy
Business Stewardship
- Build automations and AI integrations into processes, where appropriate
- Own business insurance end-to-end, including managing annual renewal cycles across all policy types (D&O, E&O, general liability, cyber, and others), maintain broker relationships, ensure applications are accurate, flag coverage gaps proactively
- Coordinate with partners on tax compliance ensuring deadlines are met
- Serve as a part of the broader Operations team to support cross-functional work
You might be a great fit if you:
- Have 6-8 years of operations experience at a high-growth startup, with significant time spent building 0 → 1 process
- Thinks AI-first and aims to leverage technology to solve scaling challenges
- Think in systems: when you see a recurring problem, you build something that makes it not recur
- Can hold strategic and operational work simultaneously and understand working on a small team requires both
- Are comfortable operating in a high agency, low ego environment where we move quickly and focus on results
- Have owned vendor relationships and financial operations with enough depth to not need hand-holding on routine decisions
We're especially excited if you have:
- Experience representing an operations function to leadership or cross-functional stakeholders
- Familiarity with Ramp, Quickbooks, Rippling, Ironclad, Linear, Notion, Zapier, or similar tools
- Background spanning operational systems, vendor management, and financial operations
- Experience building operational infrastructure in a company that didn't have it yet
Additional Notes:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $136,000-184,000 USD excluding equity. Equity will be considered in the total compensation package. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
The base pay range for this role is $136,000 – $184,000 per year.
Skills Required
- 6-8 years of operations experience at a high-growth startup
- Experience representing operations function to leadership
- Experience building operational infrastructure in a startup
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The Company
What We Do
Welcome to the Social Internet. Bluesky is social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again. We're building a new foundation for social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.
