Head of Venture Operations

About the job

TL;DR

📍 Location: Paris (hybrid, remote-friendly)

💰 Salary: €80K + bonus+ BSPCE

📄 Contract: CDI

👤 Reports to: CEO

About OSS

At OSS, we build and invest in industrial tech startups that radically transform how factories and production systems operate.

In 5 years, we’ve launched 21 ventures, impacting 2,400+ factories and 400K+ users — with a core team of just 20 people.

Our values: Fail, learn, succeed | Trusting team excellence | We eat what we kill | Think and do it quick.

The Role

We’re looking for a Head of Venture Operations to scale our venture builder to 8 launches next year and 12 annually thereafter.

👉 You’ll be the operational backbone: leading a team of Venture Leads, unblocking struggling startups, and building the processes that let us grow fast without losing quality or founder satisfaction.

This is not a classic ops job. One week, you’ll rebuild a sales process, mediate a founder conflict, and redesign our stage-gate process — all while coaching your team to do the same.

Your North Star: maximize net asset value (NAV) across our portfolio.

What You’ll Do

• Drive portfolio performance: reviews, stage-gates, direct interventions when ventures are stuck

• Manage & grow a team of Venture Leads (2–3 at start, more as we scale)

• Design the “venture factory”: processes, tools, and systems to run 12 ventures/year

• Act as player-coach: hands-on when needed, strategic when scaling

What Your Onboarding Looks Like

Your first 6 months: you’ll act as a Product Manager on one of our cohorts, learning the craft hands-on alongside Léopold (Head of Product), while taking operational ownership of a venture batch.

What Success Looks Like

• 3 months: you’ve unblocked 3+ critical venture challenges

• 6 months: you’re the go-to person to “get things unstuck”

• 12 months: OSS has doubled venture launches with high founder NPS

What we will teach you

the full OSS venture-building playbook — from customer discovery to product-market fit, from founder dynamics to stage-gate decision-making.

Who You Are

• 8+ years experience

• Backgrounds we welcome: you might come from strategy consulting, startup ops, or product/scale-up roles — what matters is your ability to learn fast and deliver impact.

• Strong team leader (5+ people), player-coach mindset

• Able to juggle multiple ventures at once

• Thrive in ambiguity & speed, from board-level strategy to customer calls

• Bonus: background as founder, operator, or “Chief of Staff plus” in a scale-up

Why Join Us?

• Direct impact on the next generation of industrial tech startups

• High autonomy: you’ll design how our venture factory scales

• Work directly with our CEO and functional heads

NB – OSS Terminology

• Venture Builder: A company creation model where we build startups from scratch with founders, providing funding, team, and methodology.

• Venture Operator / Venture Lead: An internal OSS role that supports founders in the early stages (idea → PMF), combining hands-on execution and coaching.

• NAV (Net Asset Value): The net value of our portfolio startups (assets – liabilities). It’s our key measure of value creation.

• Stage-gate process: A system of milestones where each startup must pass “gates” (go/no-go decisions) to keep receiving support and funding.

• Cohort: A batch of startups launched in parallel within the studio.

• Venture throughput: The capacity to produce startups, i.e. how many ventures we can launch per year.

• Founder NPS: A satisfaction score given by founders to measure the quality of OSS’s support.

• “We eat what we kill”: At OSS, collective performance depends on real value created, not just effort or activity.