Project Operations Lead

The SnapMagic company's existing platform (previously known as SnapEDA) is the leading library tool for electrical engineers, helping 2 million engineers each year design products like drones, electric cars, and satellites 10x faster. We are now building SnapMagic Copilot, which is built on a proprietary dataset of over 10 million components, schematic symbols, and footprints created by SnapMagic.

What You’ll Be Doing

We’re hiring a Product Operations Lead to partner directly with our CEO and engineering team in driving SnapMagic’s most critical launches. This is not a coordinator role - you’ll own the rhythm of execution, anticipate problems before they surface, and keep high-stakes projects moving at startup speed.

Your mission: keep the engine running at full throttle - ensuring sprints run flawlessly, blockers are cleared within hours (not days), and every release meets our high standards. You’ll be embedded in both product vision and technical execution, translating priorities into action, aligning stakeholders, and holding the team accountable to ambitious timelines.

If you thrive in the controlled chaos of a seed or Series A startup, move fast without sacrificing quality, and are obsessed with delivering results, you’ll have a direct hand in building the future of SnapMagic Copilot for millions of engineers worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and own detailed project plans with clear timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects, prioritizing ruthlessly and clearing blockers swiftly

• Lead daily standups and agile ceremonies to keep teams aligned, focused, and accountable.

• Keep timelines tight, projects on track, and stakeholders informed with proactive status updates.

• Validate every release against specifications, stakeholder expectations, and user experience before launch

• Partner with engineers and product leadership to ensure technical work aligns directly with business goals.

• Enforce quality standards and adherence to internal engineering guidelines

• Monitor post-release performance and coordinate fast follow-ups for critical issues or optimizations.

• Proactively improve development processes, tooling, and workflows to increase speed and quality.

• Maintain crisp, up-to-date documentation of decisions, change logs, dependencies, and lessons learned.

• Gather and synthesize customer feedback to inform priorities and refine releases.

Who You Are

You move with urgency and clarity, driven to deliver more, better, and faster- without sacrificing quality. You inspire teams through your energy, decisiveness, and ability to cut through noise. Challenges don’t slow you down; you anticipate them, solve them, and keep moving.

You take ownership end-to-end - if it’s on your plate, it gets done to a high standard. You thrive in the pace and ambiguity of an early-stage startup, and you have the scars and wins to prove it.

You bring:

• A track record of success in a leadership role at a VC-backed startup (Seed or Series A)

• Comfort working directly with engineers and reading and writing technical tickets

• Hands-on experience running agile ceremonies: standups, sprint planning, retrospectives

• Proven ability to make high-quality decisions independently with minimal oversight in ambiguous situations

• Mastery of software development workflows and tools (Linear, Notion, Trello)

• Ability to juggle multiple complex projects, ruthlessly prioritize, and hit aggressive deadlines

• Proactively surfaces risks, trade-offs, and resource needs to leadership early

• Keeps teams laser-focused on the agreed priorities and pushes back firmly on scope creep

• Comfortable holding peers and leaders accountable to commitments, even when it’s uncomfortable

• Measures success by shipped impact, not activity

Benefits

At SnapMagic, you'll work alongside bright, passionate teammates on a mission to revolutionize the $1.3 trillion electronics industry. The role won’t always be easy—but it will push you to grow, expose you to a wide range of challenges, and give you the chance to accelerate your career faster than most environments allow. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact from day one—and along the way, many of our team members build lifelong friendships and gain experience that shapes their future. Here’s what we offer:

💡 Mission & Impact

• Make your mark – Play a key role in revolutionizing the $1.3T electronics industry by building tools engineers rely on every day

• Real ownership – We empower you to drive decisions, lead initiatives, and see the impact of your work firsthand

🤝 Team & Culture

• Tight-knit team – Join a high-trust, low-ego group of passionate builders who care deeply about the mission and each other

• Collaborative environment – We value transparency, shared context, and fast iteration across functions

• Meaningful relationships – Many teammates form lifelong friendships along the way

🚀 Professional Development

• Career Growth: This role is an ideal launchpad to a future GM, COO, or startup founder role. You’ll develop the judgment, operational chops, and leadership toolkit to run a company.

• Learn from the CEO: Learn directly from the CEO and leadership team, gaining exposure to every part of the business

• Accelerated learning – Work cross-functionally, wear multiple hats, and grow faster than in traditional roles

• Feedback & mentorship – Stretch projects, direct feedback, and coaching from experienced leaders

• Mastery-focused – We encourage curiosity, skill-building, and deep domain expertise

💼 Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation – Includes salary and equity

• Comprehensive healthcare – Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

• 401(k) plan - Managed via Guideline (unmatched)

🧘 Work Environment

• Catered lunches – Provided during in-office days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) to simplify your workweek

• Hybrid environment – We value face time but offer Tuesday and Thursday to work-from-home