Head of Operations job in London

We need an operations whizz 👾

Calling all operations people who love kids toys as much as they love highly organised filing systems.

About us
Bright Little Labs is building a kids media giant for the 21st century. We make kids’ books, games, and products that promote critical thinking, computer science and equality. Our flagship kids story is about Detective Dot - a nine-year-old coder who is on a dangerous mission from the C.I.A. (Children’s Intelligence Agency). Kids can join the CIA and carry out personalised activities on and offline.

We started on Kickstarter, reached 30 countries, got Cabinet Office backing, and have won a few of awards. Next up: we’re launching in 22,000 schools, and making books, cartoons and games with our new top-secret partner. Boom. We need an amazing ops person to join the team and help us to grow. If you love kids stories, equality, coding, numbers, commercial deals and toilet humour, please get in touch.

Please note, we value smart people over experience and qualifications. If you’re not sure you have the “right background”, please apply!

About you

• You are driven by organisational efficiency and understand that this underpins the company’s success. You can often be heard saying “that’s great, who is paying for it”.
• If there’s no process, you’ll research, make one, and then implement it
• If you’ve worked on kids products before, or if you were a kid once, that’s a huge bonus.
• We need help with these sorts of tasks
• Taking charge of cash flow, budgets + finance. Working with Xero and our accountants, and implementing new systems to make it automated + easy
• Communicating key financial info to the team and inform commercial strategy
• Business ops - HR, insurance, office space etc.
• Introducing a new CRM system into the business to keep track of relationships and pipelines and making sure that we all follow it.
• Looking after the commercial aspects of partnerships
• Product logistics - managing our logistics assistant to make sure our supply chain is running smoothly (we print + send out books worldwide, as well as fulfilling orders from retailers)

We offer

• An awesome role helping to define the future of Bright Little Labs. Plenty of responsibility and autonomy from day one.
• Exposure - we're a high-ish profile project and we work with exciting people
• Flexible working arrangements - Mums, dads and pregnant people please apply
• Feel good factor. You’ll be working on a project at the heart of equality, education and technology.
• Fun - we’re building a top-secret spy agency. If we told you more, we’d have to kill you.

You will require a DBS check to qualify for this role. Salary is dependant on experience. Starting immediately in our cosy office in Shoreditch.

Apply ASAP
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