About Equi

Equi is a multi-strategy hedge fund and absolute return platform, built to deliver differentiated alpha through a modern, tech-enabled infrastructure. We serve sophisticated investors with institutional-quality access to exceptional managers, and we’re scaling quickly. Our team blends deep investing experience with a product mindset, operating with the speed and ambition of a startup.

The Role

We’re looking for a Head of Firm Operations to own the day-to-day execution of the firm and serve as a strategic partner of the CEO. You’ll be responsible for making sure the firm runs with precision across people, process, and priorities while ensuring accountability, driving cross-functional alignment, and unlocking leverage for senior leadership.

You’ll directly oversee the leaders and vendors across: legal, business operations, fund operations & compliance, IT, finance, and client service ensuring execution across the business while optimizing internal systems, information flows, and planning cadences. This role requires a rare blend of strategic thinking, operational rigor, people management, and technical fluency. It’s ideal for someone with startup or fast-growth experience in a high-trust, high-performance culture who’s now ready to help a company scale from hundreds of millions to billions.

Key Responsibilities

Firm Execution & Leadership Enablement

• Serve as the CEO’s operational counterpart, helping drive the firm’s top priorities, unblock decisions, and scale leadership capacity.

• Own the execution rhythm of the firm: weekly priorities, goal tracking, stand-ups, all-hands, leadership check-ins, and cross-functional projects.

• Ensure all departments and external vendors are aligned, executing, and accountable.

• Create visibility and clarity across the firm with clean documentation, fast decision loops, and real-time information flow.

Team Management & Accountability

• You’ll lead and/or oversee projects on budgeting and planning, legal and fund formation work, banking/payroll, performance management, and client service

• Directly manage multiple departments within the organization, ensuring firmwide alignment.

• Help these teams break down quarterly and annual goals into actionable project plans with clear ownership and deadlines.

• Drive accountability through weekly reviews, shared dashboards, and execution rituals.

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks across the business, whether strategic, organizational, or tactical.

Internal Systems & Process Design

• Build and maintain core internal systems for team coordination, documentation, onboarding, and goal setting.

• Leverage AI tools and no-code automation (e.g. Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Make, etc) to remove friction from manual processes.

• Partner with product and engineering to define internal tooling needs and ensure operational systems are built to scale.

• Continuously improve the way we operate, always looking for clarity, speed, and efficiency.

Strategic Planning & Execution

• Partner with the CEO to run quarterly and annual planning, ensuring that company-level goals are realistic, actionable, and aligned across teams.

• Monitor goal progress firm-wide and ensure leadership is focused on what matters most.

• Lead special strategic projects that don’t clearly fall under a single department but are essential to company growth.

• Help surface blind spots, frame tradeoffs, and push for data-informed decisions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in operational leadership, biz ops, chief of staff, or general management roles in high-growth environments.

• 2-3+ years in hedge funds or asset management

• Experience managing other managers and/or vendors, including ops, compliance, or finance leads.

• Background in hedge funds, startups, tech, finance, or investment management.

• Proven track record of driving accountability and execution across cross-functional teams.

• Highly proficient with internal ops tools (Notion, Airtable, G Suite) and no-code automations (Zapier, Make, etc.).

• Active user of AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) for task acceleration, writing, and workflow automation.

• Extremely high standards for organization, clarity, and follow-through.

• Strong communication skills; clear, candid, concise.

• Excited to play a foundational role in scaling a modern investment firm.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with fund operations, capital flows, or investor relations.

• Experience working with CRMs, investor portals, or compliance tech stacks.

• Content production skills (e.g. Notion updates, social content, investor communications).

Why This Role?

• Join the leadership team of a rapidly growing investment platform.

• Own the operational heart of a company going from scrappy startup to scaled institution.

• Be a true force multiplier to the CEO and senior leadership, with visibility across all parts of the business.

• Help us build a high-autonomy, low-politics culture with people who care deeply about execution and long-term thinking.