Operations Lead
Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)
Base salary $180K to $220K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY
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- LocationNew York, NY
- WorkplaceRemote
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About the Role
Own a core operational domain at an early-stage fintech, such as customer operations, payment operations, or financial crime operations. You will build and improve its processes, metrics, tooling, and automations, working closely with Product and Engineering to increase operational capacity while keeping teams lean.
What You'll Do
Handle operational cases directly at first to identify process gaps and establish meaningful performance metrics.
Design and launch production automations, then measure their impact on live workflows.
Develop agent-based systems that automate routine work while keeping human review for high-risk decisions.
Partner with Product and Engineering to define and build operational tooling.
Create and maintain standard operating procedures, escalation paths, and domain-specific KPIs.
Improve throughput and reliability without relying on proportional headcount growth.
What We're Looking For
Approximately 3 to 6 years of experience, including hands-on operations ownership at an early-stage technology company.
Experience in fintech, payments, banking, crypto, or another regulated financial services environment.
A track record of shipping production workflow automations or agents, rather than prototypes alone.
Experience designing end-to-end operational processes, including SOPs, KPIs, and tooling.
Hands-on familiarity with queue management, case handling, transaction processing, or similar operational work.
Ability to work directly with Product and Engineering teams to shape operational systems and tools.
Experience with payment operations, compliance, risk, or financial crime workflows is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $180,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in New York, New York. Candidates should be based in New York or willing to relocate.
Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
How this pay compares
Base floor $180,000, above 83% of the 4,125 Business Operations roles nationwide on this site. The employer's range is $40,000 wide, 22% of the floor. First observed today.
Pay in context
Among 4,125 Business Operations roles nationwide listed on this site, the median base floor is $135,000 and the middle half runs from $116,925 to $160,400. This role's floor ($180,000) is above 83% of them; 63 others list the same floor.
Base floors of 4,125 Business Operations roles nationwide
Table
| Floor band | Share | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 34.8% | 1,436 |
| $125K to $150K | 29.9% | 1,234 |
| $150K to $175K | 16.5% | 679 |
| $175K to $200K | 9.8% | 406 |
| $200K to $225K | 5.2% | 216 |
| $225K to $250K | 1.8% | 74 |
| $250K to $275K | 1.3% | 52 |
| $275K and up | 0.7% | 28 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Base floor distribution of the cohort
- Formula
- count of cohort postings in each $25K band of published base floor / postings in the cohort
- Denominator
- 4,125 open postings with this job family nationwide
- Sample size
- 4125
- Hidden when
- the cohort has fewer than 30 postings
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
How Clera pays
17 of Clera's 98 live roles on this site list a higher base floor and 65 list a lower one. Across them the median floor is $150,000; the middle half runs from $130,000 to $180,000.
Base floors of Clera's 98 live roles
Table
| Floor band | Share | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 12.2% | 12 |
| $125K to $150K | 20.4% | 20 |
| $150K to $175K | 30.6% | 30 |
| $175K to $200K | 22.4% | 22 |
| $200K to $225K | 9.2% | 9 |
| $225K to $250K | 3.1% | 3 |
| $250K to $275K | 2.0% | 2 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Employer base floor distribution
- Formula
- count of the employer's open roles in each $25K band of published base floor / its open roles
- Denominator
- 98 open public roles at this employer
- Sample size
- 98
- Hidden when
- this employer has fewer than 5 roles
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- current
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
Similar pay elsewhere
Other employers' Business Operations roles nationwide with the nearest published base floor to $180,000, one per employer.
- Biz Ops Lead AirOps · base floor $180,000
- Principal Cloud Operations Engineer (10166) Extreme Networks · base floor $180,000
- Senior Manager, IT Operations - Pleasanton, CA Calyxo · base floor $180,000
- Director, Program Management - 1032 Quantinuum · base floor $180,000
- Partner & Marketplace Operations Lead Clay · base floor $180,000
This listingOperations Lead$180K to $220K
Platform Engineer, Biotech$180K to $240K
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)$180K to $210K
Head of Engineering$180K to $220K
Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls$180K to $200K
Forward Deployed Engineer$180K to $220K
Founding Engineer$180K to $250K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Operations Lead (this listing) | $180K - $220K |
| Platform Engineer, Biotech | $180K - $240K |
| Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) | $180K - $210K |
| Head of Engineering | $180K - $220K |
| Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls | $180K - $200K |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $180K - $220K |
| Founding Engineer | $180K - $250K |
Observed changes
No changes to the pay or listing since we first observed this role on Nov 8, 2026 (today).
- First observed on the employer's board, already publishing a qualifying base salary
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-08
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: New York (remote)
Base salary: $180,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
- Method
- Employer text, read with fixed rules and re-verified
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The pay passage appears in the employer's own job text. Fixed, deterministic rules located it, and the passage below was checked against the stored copy of the posting.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.