Operations & Strategy Associate; Remote; locations

• FL, US / OR, US / TX, US / NC, US / IL, US - Remote (within locations)

Our creative ecosystem gives artists and studios across film, games, motion design, and digital media access to a connected collection of 3D assets, tools, platforms, and communities. Globally, our products support millions of creators, including independent artists and creative teams.

Kit Bash is building an ecosystem that supports digital creators at every step of their journey from inspiration to finished work, making it easier to learn, build, collaborate, and showcase.

Following our recent acquisition of Art Station and Sketchfab, Kit Bash is experiencing significant growth, which generates a steady stream of work that does not yet have a clear owner: a legal question that needs to be answered before a decision can be made; a process that needs to be designed before anyone has been assigned to run it; a system that needs to be built before it is clear which team should maintain it.

We're hiring a Strategy & Operations Associate to help us scale more effectively and sustainably. This role reports directly to the COO with broad visibility across the business, and exists to pick up the projects, questions, and systems that don't yet have a home and carry each through to a working, repeatable process, then transition it to the team best positioned to own it going forward.

This is a growth role. You'll start by taking ownership of discrete, well-defined work-streams where you can build credibility and get oriented in how Kit Bash operates. Over your first 6-9 months, you'll ramp into broader project and program management, taking on more ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives as your judgment and context develop.

If you're the person who figures things out, digs into an unfamiliar problem, delivers a clear recommendation, and can execute independently this role is designed to grow with you.

Location: This position can be remote or hybrid and is open to US candidates. Local candidates have the option to work out of our office located in Portland, Oregon.

Broadly, this role spans four areas, in roughly this order of emphasis as you ramp:

• Legal & Compliance Support
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  First-draft contracts from templates, time-sensitive legal/regulatory research, and privacy review support for planned product or process changes.
• Documentation, Process Design & Automation
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  Learning new systems and processes quickly, translating them into clear SOPs, and identifying opportunities to automate recurring work, drafting rollout communications and training materials, and driving actual adoption of new processes and systems across teams, not just documenting them.
• Data, Reporting & Analysis
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  Partnering with the COO on internal reporting infrastructure, keeping reporting current with functional data owners, and running ad hoc analysis for time-sensitive decisions.
• Project & Program Management
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  Leading cross-functional projects that require coordinating stakeholders across departments, supporting the business integration work across Kit Bash's four brands, owning adoption of the changes that those projects introduce, and making sure new ways of working actually stick.

Your day-to-day mix across these areas will shift as you grow into the role.

The specific work in this role will always be shaped by whatever Kit Bash needs most at the time: that's the nature of the job. What should change predictably is your level of ownership and autonomy as you build context. Here's what that progression looks like:

By 3 months:
Owning discrete, assigned pieces of work You're taking on defined projects and work streams handed off by the COO — contract drafting and legal/regulatory research, vendor research and evaluation, a piece of a documentation or process-design effort, a slice of reporting or ad hoc analysis — and running them to completion with guidance on approach and stakeholders. You're not yet expected to identify the work yourself, but you should own it fully once it's yours.

By 6 months:
Working autonomously across the full scope of the role You're operating independently across legal support, process design, reporting, and project management, with less need for guidance on how to approach a given piece of work or who to involve. You're leading cross-functional projects end-to-end rather than owning pieces of them, and the COO is handing you more ambiguous, less-scoped problems because you've shown you can figure out the shape of the work…