As the right hand to the Chief of Staff, you will drive high-priority projects across finance, people, and strategy to scale Gizmo.ai’s addictive learning platform. You’ll own critical workstreams from day one, solving complex operational bottlenecks to support a growing community of 1.7 million learners and a rapidly expanding 20-person team.
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Operations & Strategy Associate at Gizmo
As the right hand to the Chief of Staff (ex-DeepMind), you’ll own critical strategy, finance, and people workstreams in a high-growth, 20-person team. This is a high-autonomy launchpad role for an ambitious generalist with 2-4 years of experience looking to make a visible impact at one of London's fastest-growing startups. You'll learn directly from founders and world-class ops talent while helping a billion people learn anything through gamification.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£50k + Equity
Company
Gizmo
Role overview
Software
Gizmo is an AI startup on a mission to make learning so easy that anyone can learn anything. We're building Duolingo for Anything - a platform that uses gamification and social mechanics to make learning fun. With over 1.5 million monthly active users and $5M in annual recurring revenue, we’re already one of the fastest-growing startups in the UK. Backed by leading investors, we recently raised $22M in Series A funding to accelerate our vision of helping 1 billion people learn.
What you will do
- Lead diverse workstreams across finance, compliance, and people operations to increase the leverage and output of the executive team.
- Analyze performance data and user metrics to draw actionable conclusions that inform strategic priorities and company growth.
- Proactively identify operational friction and build scalable solutions, from improving internal processes to supporting high-level hiring pushes.
Who this is a fit for
- Roughly 2-4 years of professional experience, ideally within a talent-dense, fast-moving startup or strategy consulting environment.
- Proven ability to communicate crisply and manage upwards, ensuring leadership has the right context without unnecessary noise.
- A low-ego, outcome-driven mindset with the technical curiosity to use AI tools to 10x personal productivity and output.
Why this role is remarkable
- Work as the right hand to CoS Genevieve Simpson (ex-DeepMind) at one of the UK's fastest-growing AI startups.
- Join a Series A company backed by NFX and Ada Ventures with 1.7M active monthly learners and proven revenue traction.
- High-impact role with extreme visibility across the 20-person team, designed as a launchpad for a future career in venture-backed operations.
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