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Cognition

Business Operations

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Projects will vary: standing up new business lines, building analytics infrastructure alongside ... Requirements * 3-5 years of experience in consulting, investment banking, or operations at a high ...

Embedding VC

Business Operations

San Francisco, CA · On-site

The founding team brings deep expertise across medicine, product, operations, and engineering. Collectively, we have built multiple 0-to-1 products and scaled companies from inception to over $1B in ...

Eigen

Business Operations

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Over the next 12 months this operator will set the cultural, operational, and administrative foundations of a generational product and institution owning mission critical projects and getting ...

Red Clover HR

Business Operations Manager

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$65K - $75K/yr

Business Operations Employment Type: Full Time Location: Los Angeles, CA Reporting To: Senior Director of Finance and Business Operations Compensation: $65,000 - $75,000 / year Description About Us ...

Clarvida

Business Operations Analyst

Costa Mesa, CA · On-site +1

$85K - $100K/yr

Business Operations Analyst Location: California (Remote/Hybrid) Employment Type: Full-time Salary: $85,000 - $100,000 per year (dependent on experience, education, and market factors) Date Posted ...

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How much do business operations jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 9, 2026, the average yearly pay for business operations in California is $100,125.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $97,200.00 and $115,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are some common challenges faced in a business operations role, and how can they be addressed?

Professionals in Business Operations often navigate challenges such as managing cross-departmental communication, streamlining inefficient processes, and adapting to changing organizational priorities. Success in this role requires strong problem-solving skills, the ability to build relationships across teams, and a proactive approach to process improvement. Staying organized and leveraging data-driven insights can help address these challenges, ensuring that business goals are met efficiently and collaboratively.

What is the difference between Business Operations vs Business Analyst?

AspectBusiness OperationsBusiness Analyst
Primary FocusOverseeing daily business functions, process optimization, and operational efficiencyAnalyzing business needs, gathering requirements, and recommending solutions
Required SkillsProcess management, project coordination, communicationData analysis, problem-solving, stakeholder engagement
Work EnvironmentCross-departmental, internal teams, operational settingsProject-based, collaboration with IT and business units
Common CertificationsLean, Six Sigma, PMPCBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA

Business Operations professionals focus on managing and improving overall business processes and daily functions, ensuring efficiency across departments. Business Analysts analyze business needs, gather requirements, and propose solutions to improve systems and workflows. While both roles require strong communication and analytical skills, Business Operations roles are more operational and process-oriented, whereas Business Analysts are more focused on project-specific analysis and solution design.

What is business operations?

Business operations refer to the day-to-day activities and processes that organizations use to produce goods or provide services. These activities include managing resources, overseeing production, handling logistics, and ensuring that the company runs efficiently and effectively. The goal of business operations is to maximize productivity while minimizing costs and maintaining quality. Professionals in this field often analyze workflows, implement process improvements, and coordinate across departments to optimize performance.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a business operations professional, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Business Operations professional, you need strong analytical skills, process optimization experience, and a background in business administration or a related field. Familiarity with project management tools (like Asana or Jira), CRM systems, and data analysis software such as Excel or Tableau is typically required. Excellent communication, problem-solving abilities, and adaptability are crucial soft skills for this role. These competencies ensure efficient business processes, support organizational growth, and enable effective cross-functional collaboration.
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Infographic showing various Business Operations job openings in California as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 74% Full Time, 22% Part Time, 2% Temporary, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 91% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 7% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $100,125 per year, or $48.1 per hour.

Business Operations

Alleviate Health Inc

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$350K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 27 days ago

Job description

tl;dr/Overview:
At Alleviate Health we're building AI Agents that drastically accelerate clinical trials by autonomously communicating with patients to recruit them into trials and support them over years, pruning billions in excess spend. We're solving the problem that keeps execs at the largest $100B+ Pharma companies up at night.
We bootstrapped to winning some of the largest enterprise accounts in the market and are seeing massive market pull. We've now raised a $4.3M seed round led by a16z and are hiring a world-class team to solve the largest problem in drug development and win one of the largest opportunities in AI - while slashing the time it takes to bring life-changing medicines to the patients who desperately need them.
Context:
Conducting a clinical trial is the most complex and broken, but also the most high‑stakes and capital intensive, problem of our era.
To bring a life-saving medicine from the lab bench to patients, pharma companies spend tens of billions a year for research sites to qualify & screen hundreds of thousands of patients and then to stay in contact with those patients over years. Approximately 80% of clinical trials are delayed due to problems with recruitment and between $600,000 and $8 million is lost for each day a trial is delayed.
This enormous, labor-intensive struggle of screening, recruitment, and retention of patients across thousands of small research sites in every single trial is the foundational bottleneck in clinical trials.
About Alleviate:
At Alleviate we've built SOTA AI Agents that autonomously recruit & retain patients in trials.
Currently, our AI agents conduct over 100,000 conversations every month by:
  • Intelligently screening & routing patients to the right trials.
  • Collecting necessary data for the trial from patients multiple times per week.
  • Answering patients' questions perfectly and supporting them 24/7 throughout the trial - reducing costly drop-offs.
  • Continuously learning from each interaction to optimize performance.

Our team worked at a small research site for months to understand the problem deeply -- personally calling and speaking to patients -- and then bootstrapped to working with some of the largest clinical research organizations in the world and conducting over a 100k conversations per month.
Some vitals on Alleviate (Achieved without a single dollar raised):
  1. Hypergrowth. We're growing rapidly MoM (both within existing & new accounts). We've landed (and realized) multiple 6 figure deals. Our largest live contract has an annual value of >$350k.
  2. Our win rate on commercial deals is >92%. We're the market leading solution - we've never lost a deal to competitors and have actively poached multiple customers from competitors.
  3. Our market is gigantic and immensely painful. We can't mention their names publicly but have landed pilots with top 20 pharma(s) that will grow to $XM+/yr. Our pipeline grows organically due to customer fear of falling behind after hearing from our existing customers.

Investors (a16z, Jack Altman...):
We're now backed by Andreessen Horowitz and other investors like Jack Altman (Co-Founder of Lattice), Zach Weinberg (Co-Founder of Flatiron Health, the largest Pharma tech exit of all time), Ali Rowghani (Former CFO & COO of Twitter), Trey Holterman (CEO & Co-Founder of Tennr) and many others who've built category defining healthcare & pharma companies.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Business Operations generalist who will be a force-multiplier for our founding team. You will own and solve mission-critical problems across go-to-market, customer deployments, operations, and strategy. Examples of what you might work on include:
  • Owning and driving the success of strategic customer deployments, making decisions that directly impact product adoption, operational efficiency, and revenue
  • Designing the operating model and developing the ecosystem partnerships that will be the foundation of our growth engine
  • Synthesizing on-the-ground customer insights into product requirements that will advance how we leverage AI to accelerate clinical trials
  • Solving ambiguous, first-of-a-kind company challenges, and then turning your solutions into clear, repeatable processes the whole team can rely on

Who You Are:
  • 2-4+ years of experience in top-tier strategy consulting (e.g., MBB), investment banking (e.g., GS/MS/JPM), PE/VC, or Strategy & Ops/BizOps at a leading tech company (e.g., FAANG/Mag 7) or a high-growth early-stage startup
  • Self-starter in ambiguous environments: able to independently define problems, gather context, and drive solutions end-to-end with minimal guidance
  • Exceptional analytical ability; can model, synthesize, and communicate clearly
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, demonstrated through side projects, founding/early-employee experience, or outsized ownership in prior roles

Why Alleviate:
We're going after the largest problem in one of the largest markets in the world. We already replace tens of millions in excess spend and will replace billions of dollars of excess spend while slashing the time it takes to bring life-changing medicines to the patients who desperately need them.
We're looking for exceptional operators to help us realize this ambition. If you find this goal compelling, we'd love to talk.

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