Sr. Associate, Business Operations

A little bit about us!

Our boutique consulting firm, Sandbox, is a unique team-based, outcomes-focused business with a track record and passion for helping companies launch, grow and monetize their emerging businesses. Our clients benefit from our versatile expertise and diverse experience to guide them through periods of transformation and growth.

Our employees—affectionately referred to as Sand boxers—are a collection of repeat entrepreneurs, corporate refugees, reformed management consultants, and rogue college grads who believe in our creative approach to traditional consulting. What makes us great? Our sandbox is full of richly diverse skills, talents, thoughts, lifestyles, experiences AND we all share a love for getting our hands dirty and doing what it takes to help our clients achieve their business goals.

As a member of the growing Business Operations team, you will serve as our clients’ right hand, an internal Sandbox safety net, and at times, everyone’s accountability partner towards maturing our clients (and our own) internal business operations. This hybrid role will have diverse responsibilities, primarily managing operations on behalf of our clients and fellow Sand boxers. As a Sandbox associate, you will work directly with our clients on their various ad-hoc projects and activities that fall just outside of finance and people operations.

Our ideal candidate profile is one that loves to dabble, appreciates variety, prefers an autonomous work environment, and doesn’t shy away from deadlines. In exchange, our team will provide empowering leadership, directional support, opportunities to problem-solve, and permission to fail forward. With no promise of a predictable day-to-day, we envision the Business Operations Associate position will:

• Serve as a primary problem-solver, fielding client questions, managing research projects, and supporting operations-related escalations.
• Provide executive assistant support, including calendar management, administrative tasks, meeting setup, and small-event coordination.
• Act as a communications partner, ghostwriting external messages, drafting client reports and board materials, and supporting internal communications like job posts and policy updates.
• Support tax notice handling, coordinating responses and resolving routine tax-related mail.
• Execute bill pay tasks, managing recurring payments and coordinating with Finance (no system setup required).
• Operate as the organizational backbone, setting up and maintaining systems, templates, and documentation to keep clients organized and efficient—including maintaining client files and owning investor documentation.
• Support Biz Ops project work, including:
  • Participating in operational assessments and listening tours
  • Conducting structured employee interviews
  • Asking follow-ups to surface insights or gaps
  • Synthesizing qualitative information into draft reports
• Supporting workflow mapping and process documentation
• Provide facilitation and project management support across Biz Ops client engagements—tracking tasks, running meetings, managing deadlines, and producing clear client deliverables.
• Step in as a team player for ad-hoc support such as writing social posts, cleaning up presentations, assisting with data entry, or setting up new software accounts.
• Contribute to Sandbox culture, including the Sandbox Fun Committee and engagement with strategic partners and the broader startup community.
• Lean into being a learner, picking up new tools, skills, and responsibilities—even when it requires experimentation, iteration, and learning from mistakes.

• Have experience as an executive assistant, including calendaring, logistics, and administrative coordination.
• Bring experience with tax notices or the ability to learn this quickly.
• Are comfortable executing bill pay workflows.
• Have project management fundamentals—task tracking, meeting management, and deadline execution.
• Facilitates interviews and meetings and summarizes key takeaways.
• Have strong written synthesis skills, turning conversations, findings, and data into coherent draft reports.
• Are proficient in both Google…