Persona
Operations Assistant
We are looking for Operations Assistants to help our clients support daily operations, stay organized, and keep internal processes running smoothly.
About the role
We are hiring a highly organized Operations Assistant to bring structure, momentum, and clear communication across a multi-department small-to-mid-size business (sales, installation, purchasing, service, vendors, leadership). This role is execution and coordination-focused: you'll maintain operations dashboards, coordinate jobs across departments, support customer/franchise communication, and provide day-to-day executive assistance to the CEO. Light bookkeeping support is included.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate daily activity across sales, installation, purchasing, service, vendors, and leadership
- Maintain a centralized operations dashboard: schedules, service issues, vendor updates, priorities, job statuses
- Triage customer and franchise communications; respond when appropriate; ensure follow-through
- Provide general administrative support, close cross-departmental loops, and standardize internal processes
- Support the CEO with inbox triage, calendar management, deadline tracking, prioritization, and communication prep
- Coordinate travel and light personal admin tasks
- Provide light bookkeeping support: monthly reconciliations, sales tax tracking, basic financial organization
Required Qualifications
- 3-5 years of proven experience as an Operations Specialist, Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant, or Startup Generalist
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills across multiple workstreams
- Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable working independently with minimal oversight
- Excellent verbal and written communication across departments and stakeholders
- Tech-savvy; comfortable learning dashboards, spreadsheets, and project management tools
- Customer service mindset; ensures issues are followed through to completion
- Basic familiarity with bookkeeping (or willingness to learn)
- Fully fluent in English
- Ability to commit long-term and full-time
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in field service, construction, franchise, or product-based businesses
- Familiarity with operations dashboards (Airtable, Notion, ClickUp, Monday)
- Light QuickBooks or Xero exposure
Tools & Technologies
- Airtable, Notion, ClickUp, Monday, Asana, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Slack, Zoom, QuickBooks (light), Calendly
Core Competencies
- Builder of dashboards and trackers
- Calm under multi-thread coordination pressure
- Strong cross-department communicator
- Proactive and resourceful
- Service-minded with internal and external stakeholders
- Discreet with executive information
What We Offer
- Best salaries in the industry
- Work from anywhere permanently
- Opportunities for growth and advancement
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- A warm, people-first company culture
- Get paid in your currency of choice
- Full benefits
This is a full-time, long-term role, dedicated exclusively to one of our clients. All roles at Persona are 100% work-from-anywhere. Once hired, we will carefully match you to a client company that best suits your career background, skills, and goals.