Strategy & Operations

 Reports to: Founder
 Stage: Early, scrappy, high-ownership

Hydra is looking for its first full-time hire. This is a true founding role. You will sit next to the founder and help build the company from the inside out. If something touches operations, finance, marketing, growth, or execution, it will likely run through you.

This is not a narrow role. You will wear many hats, switch contexts often, and help turn ideas into shipped work. The right person is excited by ambiguity and wants real ownership in building a brand from the ground up.

What you’ll do

Operations

• Own day-to-day operations and keep the business running smoothly
  
   
• Coordinate with suppliers, manufacturers, 3PLs, and logistics partners
  
   
• Manage inventory, POs, shipping, and fulfillment across channels
  
   
• Build and document processes so things scale cleanly over time
  
   
• Handle the random but critical things that come up daily
  
   

Finance

• Track cash flow, budgets, and spend
  
   
• Manage invoices, payments, and basic accounting workflows
  
   
• Support forecasting and planning as the business grows
  
   
• Help prepare materials for investors, grants, or fundraising processes
  
   
• Be a second set of eyes on financial decisions
  
   

Marketing & Growth

• Support marketing execution across email, social, influencer, and partnerships
  
   
• Help manage content calendars, launches, and campaigns
  
   
• Coordinate with designers, creators, agencies, or freelancers
  
   
• Analyze what’s working and what’s not and help iterate quickly
  
   
• Jump in wherever needed to get initiatives over the finish line
  
   

General

• Act as a thought partner to the founder
  
   
• Take ideas and turn them into action
  
   
• Identify gaps and proactively fix them
  
   
• Help build the culture, systems, and foundation of the company
  
   

Who you are

• You want to be early. Very early.
  
   
• You are organized, reliable, and action oriented
  
   
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and fast change
  
   
• You are excited by consumer brands, startups, and building from zero
  
   
• You don’t need perfect direction to get started
  
   

What this is and is not

• This is a founding-level role with real responsibility and influence
  
   
• This is not a 9-to-5 or a narrow job description
  
   
• This is for someone who wants to grow into a senior operator over time
  
   
• This is not for someone who only wants one lane
  
   

Compensation

 

• Meaningful equity
  
   
• Massive learning and growth opportunity
  
   
• Direct access to the founder and real decision-making