Principal, Strategic Operations
About Us:
Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again. Since launching in 2021, we've become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts. Our goal? To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.
We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals. We're hyper focused on building a product people love, and on finding every edge that helps us do that better. AI is core to how we operate: every person on the team uses it as a partner to sharpen judgment, move faster, and expand what's possible. We're not looking for tool mastery, we're looking for fluency and curiosity. What matters is that AI is part of how you work today and that you're actively raising your own bar on how to use it well.
As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere. Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM – 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.
Join us on our mission to transform lives by simplifying money, together.
The Role:
Monarch is seeking a Principal, Strategic Operations to join our Ops team during a period of rapid growth. Reporting to the Head of Operations, you'll design, implement, and continuously improve Monarch's operating system - ensuring company strategy translates into aligned decisions, effective planning, and reliable cross-functional execution. You'll partner closely with our founders and leadership team to build the operating mechanisms that help Monarch scale with clarity rather than complexity.
What You’ll Do:
Design and continuously improve Monarch's leadership operating system, including planning cadences, decision-making frameworks, and operating rhythms.
Own the operating mechanics behind quarterly and annual planning, ensuring priorities, dependencies, and execution remain aligned across the company.
Drive execution of the company's highest-priority cross-functional initiatives by improving coordination, accountability, and follow-through.
Build and evolve the operating mechanisms, documentation, and planning artifacts that enable teams to execute effectively at scale.
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Partner closely with founders and functional leaders to identify organizational friction, improve decision-making, and continuously strengthen how Monarch operates.
What You’ll Bring:
7+ years of experience in Business Operations, Strategic Operations, Chief of Staff, Management Consulting, or a similar operational leadership role.
Demonstrated experience designing or scaling operating systems, planning processes, or company-wide execution mechanisms in a high-growth environment.
Experience partnering directly with founders and senior leaders on company-wide initiatives.
Exceptional written communication skills and the ability to synthesize complexity into clear decisions, frameworks, and operating mechanisms.
Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify root causes, simplify complexity, and design durable solutions.
Outstanding judgment, executive presence, and the ability to influence senior leaders without formal authority.
Proven ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, fast-moving environments while maintaining an exceptionally high quality bar.
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Demonstrated AI Fluency: you use AI regularly in your work, have a clear point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't, and are continuously raising your own bar.
Nice to Haves:
Experience leading company planning (OKRs, annual planning, quarterly planning, etc.).
Background in management consulting followed by an operating role.
Experience supporting founder-led organizations through rapid scaling.
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Familiarity with tools such as Notion, Linear, Omni / Looker, Slack, and modern AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini).
Typical Process:
Recruiter Video Call
Hiring Manager Video Call
Take Home Assignment
Virtual “onsite” round consisting of 2-4 rounds
Reference Checks
Offer!
Benefits :
Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.
Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.
Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.
Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).
Unlimited PTO.
3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!
Equal Opportunity & Non-Discrimination
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information.
Applicant Notices
California & San Francisco: Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment. We comply with all applicable fair chance hiring laws.
Future Engineering Opportunities
About Us:
Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again. Since launching in 2021, we've become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts. Our goal? To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.
We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals. We're hyper focused on building a product people love, and on finding every edge that helps us do that better. AI is core to how we operate: every person on the team uses it as a partner to sharpen judgment, move faster, and expand what's possible. We're not looking for tool mastery, we're looking for fluency and curiosity. What matters is that AI is part of how you work today and that you're actively raising your own bar on how to use it well.
As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere. Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM – 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.
Join us on our mission to transform lives by simplifying money, together.
The Role:
We are always looking for talented Engineers to join our team as we continue to grow and scale and have several pods that will be hiring later this year. Here's some additional information on our Engineering pods/focus areas at Monarch:
Core Product: The Core Product team is responsible for building and improving our core Monarch features like budgeting, goals, and reports across our web and mobile platforms.
Growth: The Growth team works on building product experiences that help Monarch to reach more users, and to help those users through the path to financial success using Monarch. They work on rapid experimentation, a/b testing, improving our onboarding flow and initiatives around customer engagement and retention.
Aggregation: The Aggregation team owns the process that allows our users to see your whole financial life in one view. They handle all of data connectivity, making sure all of your financial data is delivered safely and accurately into Monarch.
Infra/Platform: This team handles our infrastructure and developer tooling to help the rest of the team ship faster and more reliably.
Security: We place the utmost importance on our customers' security and privacy. Our security team improves our overall security posture and helps individual teams maintain a focus on security and privacy.
If you're excited about what we're creating, and passionate about helping people reach their financial goals, then please apply below. Include a note (can be as short as a couple sentences or as long as a few paragraphs) and tell us more about the work you love to do, and why you're excited to join Monarch. We look forward to hearing from you!
What you'll bring:
A "product-centric" mindset and pride in building something people love (even our Infra/Platform engineers are passionate about product).
Experience with (or interest in learning) our tech stack:
Front End: React/Typescript, React Native, Apollo (GraphQL) for API requests
Back-End: Python/Django, GraphQL/Graphene, PostgreSQL, Redis
AWS, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EC2
CI/CD (Circle CI)
Comfort working across the entire stack when needed regardless of where your expertise lies to ensure we can deliver high caliber products to our users.
Working collaboratively with other functions in a remote environment. You value others' input and know how to integrate it into your work.
Comfort working with a lot of autonomy and some ambiguity.
Sharing your knowledge and helping your team grow is something you’re passionate about. You believe in the power of good documentation and effective mentoring.
#LI-DNI
Benefits :
Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.
Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.
Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.
Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).
Unlimited PTO.
3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!
Equal Opportunity & Non-Discrimination
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information.
Applicant Notices
California & San Francisco: Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment. We comply with all applicable fair chance hiring laws.
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