Jr. Operations and IT manager at Board of Innovations

Disclaimer: This is a remote role and can be done from where it’s comfortable to work within Central European time

About the role
We don’t believe in forcing someone into a specific job function so consider the following responsibilities - in order of importance - as a starting point:

• You drive and deliver internal projects on our internal roadmap in close collaboration with the different internal stakeholders.
• You align with different users in the business and truly empathize with their needs
• You explore and assess different tools to assess which one best meets the requirements you specified
• You own and support the roll-out of the tools and effectively communicate towards everyone involved
• You own the full project management (setting project timeline, assigning and following up with owners, making sure milestones are hit, managing budget, resolving conflicts, etc)
• You bring in outside support from subject matter experts where needed and build a network to learn from similar organizations.
• You deliver simplicity and scalability in everything you do
• You are the principal owner and internal point-of-contact for our tooling and IT set-up
• You are the main administrator and point of contact for all subscription services and software used by the team
• You assess the different tools our consultants experiment with on projects and take the lead in scaling up those that bring our approach to a new level
• You rationalize our set of IT tools to fewer but more powerful tools
• You work with/on People & Culture team to ensure successful on and offboarding
• You are the point of contact for the team regarding tooling and you maintain good relationships with our suppliers
• You ensure that our IT security policy is up-to-date and adopted in the team
• You provide ad hoc support to strategic growth initiatives
• You jump in when our People & Culture or Finance & Legal team are rethinking their workflows
• You work together with different circle leads to develop more effective ways of working and to share those across the organization.

Requirements

• You are an excellent project manager. You make things run like clockwork: on time, on budget, on point.
• You have superior communication skills and are able to communicate effectively across different cultures, in managing a diverse set of stakeholders to get a project to the finish line.
• You have a roll-up-your-sleeves mindset; no task is too big or too small.
• You “work out loud”, making your work-in-progress visible and receptive to constant feedback.
• You are IT savvy and have relevant experience with setting up and administering different tooling platforms.
• You have 2+ years of relevant work experience in a fast-paced environment in any of the following areas: start-up/consulting/IT - experience working in a remote organisation is a big plus.
• You get a kick out of automating workflows and Zapier is your best friend.
• You thrive in critical, highly visible projects, even when given a short timeline.
• You care deeply about organizational effectiveness, always aiming for simple and scalable solutions
• You are a hyper-logical thinker and you’re able to recommend strategic solutions.

Benefits
Why work at Board of Innovation

• You want to be a part of a fast growing global team bringing together very different profiles and backgrounds bringing meaningful innovation to some of the world's largest organizations.
• You thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where you are encouraged to take ownership.
• You look for a place where you can bring your whole self to work.
• You enjoy the freedom of working when you want and from where you want.
• You look forward to connecting with the global team during our annual Summer Office.
• You will receive an attractive market-conform remuneration package with benefits.

Where You'll Be

• We are a distributed workforce with Hubs in Belgium (Antwerp), the United States (New York) and Singapore.
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be anywhere from where it’s comfortable to work within Central European time.
• Contract or payroll? We’re open to discuss both options. In countries where we don’t have a legal entity we can provide compliant payroll and contracts through our global EOR partner.