Operations Manager, Special Projects

About Us

Applecart is the leading technology company that C-suites rely on to reach business-critical decision makers. The most important decisions are made by the hardest people to reach and influence. Historically, C-suite leaders have lacked the tools to reach the stakeholders who matter most to their business. The C-suites of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, major agencies, trade associations, nonprofits, and governments use Applecart to put their best content in front of business-critical decision makers and those they trust — from policymakers and investors to CEOs, key employees, members of the media and more. Decision makers are informed by what they read, learn from advisors, hear from colleagues, and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them, you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart’s platform uses publicly available data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult and enable clients to deliver content directly to decision makers and those who matter most to them.

We are hiring an Operations Manager, Strategic Projects in our New York City office.

About the Role:

You will play a central role in high-profile and high-priority strategic projects across the company during a period of hypergrowth for a venture-backed, growth stage startup. In this position, you will work across a broad set of strategic functions, including business operations, sales enablement, finance, client services, media, and creative teams to ensure that the business scales to its fullest potential. This role will report directly to the VP of Operations.

What You’ll Do:

• Drive end-to-end execution of high-stakes, cross-functional projects, including strategic ideation, scoping, resourcing, executive alignment, project management, hands-on execution, and change management
• Lead the implementation of new processes and systematically track adoption after handover to ensure long-term retention and operational alignment
• Act as a liaison between leadership and relevant stakeholders during project execution to resolve blockers and streamline communications
• Develop models and memos, to inform Co-CEOs and senior executives in scenario planning and operational decision-making
• Drive the creation and strategic rationale behind critical communications, ensuring consistent messaging across internal communications (executive meetings, company all-hands presentations, and external client collateral)
• Contribute to the definition of long-term strategy, tracking current performance against future-state objectives, identifying gaps and creating strategic project roadmaps to close them
• Design and build company-wide systems to surface key financial and operational performance metrics that improve cross-department execution and decision-making

Experiences and Capabilities You Bring:

• 5+ years of work experience: 2-3 years at a top tier management consulting firm or investment bank, with 1-3 years of additional experience (e.g., investing role, operating role at a high growth company, etc.)
• A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced work environment; you identify opportunities for improvement and take the initiative to drive necessary change
• Demonstrated history of independently forming hypotheses and implementing solutions, with ownership over the outcome
• Outstanding organizational and analytical ability
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
• Experience managing cross-functional teams on multiple high stakes projects simultaneously, while maintaining a cool confidence
• Strong intellectual curiosity, judgment and personal integrity

This is a hybrid role. Work from home on Monday and Friday and in Applecart’s New York City office Tuesday through Thursday.

Compensation:

• Our compensation package consists of three components: (i) a base salary, (ii) annual cash bonus, and (iii) generous equity compensation.
• The base salary range for this role is between $150,000-$175,000, based on the candidate's experience and skills relative to the requirements listed above. The salary range provided is exclusive of discretionary annual cash bonus and equity compensation. The salary range provided for this role is specific to candidates located in the New York City area.

A few facts about us:

• Applecart’s platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit, leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund, and top-tier advertising and communications agencies like Teneo, FGS, Weber Shandwick, and OMD.
• Applecart is growing quickly — over the last 4 years, we’ve increased our revenue by 10X, grown our headcount by almost 5X, and we’re cashflow positive.
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, the former Head of Product at Moat, Oracle’s online ad measurement platform, a former senior White House advisor, early sales and talent leaders from Google and Twitter, two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists, and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain & Company, Amazon and Simpson Thacher.
• Applecart raised a $100M Series C from Blackstone’s tech growth fund at the end of 2025. The company’s other investors include Bain & Company, global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs, and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Ari Emanuel, CEO of TKO and Executive Chairman of WME, Wayne Berman, Blackstone’s Head of Global Government Affairs, and Risa Heller, CEO of HELLER, serve on our board.
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC, BloombergTV, and The Colbert Report, and in Axios, Semafor, BusinessWeek, the Associated Press, Forbes, the Washington Post, and Politico, among many others.