Head of Operations

Department: Operations

Reports to: Founder/CEO

Job title: Head of Operations

Salary
: £75,000-£80,000

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Remote, UK-based, with monthly London meetups

Gocertify is a bootstrapped UK tech start-up helping brands run smarter, more targeted reward campaigns.

We verify eligible audiences such as students, key workers and seniors, so brands can move away from broad discounting, protect brand value and offer the right rewards to the right customers.

We are trusted by 500+ brands, including Samsung, Sainsbury’s and FARFETCH. We work with 2m+ shoppers a year, drive £125m+ in retail sales, and have grown profitably and bootstrapped since 2020.

We are a remote team of around 20 people, with monthly meetups in London. We have scaled by staying lean and highly productive, and we are intentional about protecting that agility as we grow. That means keeping our systems lightweight and our ownership clear, so the team can execute quickly, make good decisions and scale without unnecessary process.

Gocertify has reached the point where better operating leverage matters more than simply adding more headcount.

The business already has strong foundations: talented people, great momentum, and specialist support across Finance, People, Legal and Info Sec. We are lean, high-output, and built around finding smart ways to operate. What we need next is a senior operator who can connect these pieces, strengthen our internal ops ecosystem, and help the company run more effectively as we grow.

This role sits at the intersection of company rhythm and hands‑on execution: someone who can spot pain points, design solutions, and embed what works into how the business runs day to day.

A key lever for success will be using tooling, automation and AI well. In practice, that could mean deploying AI agents to surface insight from company meetings, building Airtable interfaces to manage contracts, or using Claude Code to analyse client performance. We want someone who’s genuinely excited by this kind of leverage - who can see where modern tools can remove friction and make the business easier to run.

In the first phase, that will mean picking up a broad range of operational work directly so you can understand how the business really runs before improving, automating or redistributing it over time.

This role is not starting from scratch, and it is not expected to personally own every operational discipline.

• An established operating rhythm: fortnightly all‑hands, monthly co‑working, quarterly reviews.
• A People Lead who owns People strategy, delivery and craft.
• A Senior Ops Manager who leads Data Protection and Info Sec.
• Specialist finance support through a fractional CFO and Finance Manager.
• External legal support as needed.
• Two assistants already in the business, including one within Ops, with scope to scale assistant support further where it makes sense.

The Head of Operations will help these areas work together more clearly, improve what is already in place, and ensure owners have the context, systems and follow‑through they need.

To fix friction points, you first have to see them in action. Over your first few months, you will pick up a broad, hands‑on operational remit to deeply understand how Gocertify runs.

This initial immersion is likely to include:

• Finance operations, including month‑end cadence, invoice and debtor workflows, payroll changes and supplier management
• Legal, compliance and data protection, including contracts, DPAs, GDPR BAU, ISO 27001, insurance and vendor diligence
• Shopper support oversight, including tooling and operational readiness
• Systems, tooling and documentation, including automations, device management, access setup and Notion
• Company operating rhythm, including SLT cadence, all‑hands, quarterly planning and reviews
• Cross‑functional and commercial work where ownership or follow‑through needs strengthening

Some of this work will remain part of the long‑term remit. Some will be improved, automated or redistributed over time. Because the first phase covers a lot of ground, the right person will be…