Business Operations Manager

Operations
· Compliance
· Finance
· San Francisco, CA

Full-Time
· Occasional Travel (conferences & agency events)

Abel is the AI toolkit for law enforcement — purpose-built to give officers their time back. Our platform includes Abel Writer, which turns body camera footage and officer-provided material into completed police reports;
Abel Chat
, a CJIS-compliant assistant grounded in agency policy manuals and state code that answers with cited sources;
Abel Translate
, live in-field translation across 83 languages; and Abel Citizen
, an online reporting portal where resident-filed reports arrive clean, translated, and NIBRS-ready.

Patrol officers spend roughly one-third of every shift writing reports. Abel gives that time back —and agencies describe it as a need-to-have, not a nice-to-have.

Backed by Y Combinator and deployed at agencies nationwide, Abel is growing fast. Selling AI to government comes with procurement, compliance, and contracting work most startups never see — which makes operations a competitive advantage here, not a back office.

Abel is hiring a Business Operations Manager to own the operating backbone of the company. You will run everything that keeps a B2G company moving: government procurement responses, contracts, CJIS compliance coordination, finance, people ops, and the internal systems that hold it all together.

You will work directly with the CEO and a small senior team, and you will inherit a documented, systematized ops function: written runbooks, filing conventions, and an AI-assisted toolchain that already automates quotes, customer agreements, pilot agreements, and sales decks. Your job is to run it, improve it, and keep the company fast as it grows.

Own government procurement end-to-end: RFP/RFQ/RFI responses, vendor-pool registrations, portal submissions, and customer reference coordination

Run the contract pipeline: quotes, pilot agreements, information sharing agreements, MSAs, and reseller agreements, including routing to outside counsel and the CEO

Coordinate compliance operations: CJIS requirements, security questionnaires, and customer security requests, working with our CTO and in Vanta regularly

Manage finance operations: invoicing, payroll, multi-state registrations and tax

obligations, and vendor/software spend

Own people ops: hiring logistics, onboarding and off-boarding, benefits administration, and employment compliance

Support sales operations: CRM hygiene, quote generation, agency document filing, and conference/event logistics

Operate and extend our AI-assisted ops toolchain: the templates, scripts, and

automations that turn repeat work into one-command workflows

Help CEO stay focused on urgent legal, finance, customer, and hiring matters, and flag risks early, with a practical fix attached

Keep office organized and stocked, ordering new supplies and managing on-site vendors as needed

Abel is a results-oriented culture. We use 45-day plans because good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. Here's what to expect:

Complete a structured handoff of every active workstream: contracts in flight, the conference calendar, procurement deadlines, and vendor relationships

Take over recurring cadences: expense management, invoicing, renewals tracking, and account administration

Learn the Abel product suite and the B2G sales motion from pilot to renewal

Days 15–30:
Own

Run an active government procurement response end-to-end

Own the contract and quote workflows, including our document automation tools

Take over day-to-day relationships with outside counsel, accountants, and our security vendor

Days 31–45:
Improve

Run the full operations calendar independently

Ship at least one process improvement that…