The Company. Hedgehog is a food & climate tech startup building technology to reduce mushroom production costs. We use AI and proprietary bioreactors to cultivate a microbiome that best suits fungi growth. This allows Hedgehog to grow mushrooms at >1000x scale. Soon, we will use fungi to also produce mycelium protein, enzymes, and animal feed, completing a circular food supply.
Hedgehog is led by Jamie Balsillie (McKinsey & Co., Indigo Ag, Stanford MBA) and Wilson Ruotolo (Stanford Robotics PhD, designed end effectors for Mars Rover) and funded by Y-Combinator, Pear VC, and Haystack VC. Hedgehog has been covered by Forbes, TechCrunch, and McKinsey.
The Position. As the Operations Associate, you will be responsible for a broad range of projects across sales, marketing, strategy, and operations. This will include modeling finances and demand, project managing strategic initiatives, managing customer onboarding, recruitment of field reps, designing and implementing data systems, leading recruitment, managing supply-chain and procurement, and administrative tasks.
This is a high-ownership, fast-paced position with significant workload and demand. The Operations Associate position provides growth and mentorship opportunities and rapid career advancement potential within a high-growth company. The Operations Associate will build a direct working relationship with the CEO and will work across the leadership team.
Location & Compensation: In-person, full-time in San Francisco or Macon, Georgia. $62,000-70,000 (non-negotiable) + equity.
Responsibilities
- Project managing strategic initiatives related to sales and marketing such as new product launches, packaging redesign, and new marketing programs
- Modeling finances and owning FP&A including AP, AR, and facility budgeting
- Coordinate cross-functionally with the sales and growing teams to plan production and delivery schedules
- Visual design of sales materials and marketing collateral
- Administrative tasks such as managing customer onboarding processes
- Ad hoc business analysis, engineering support, and daily operations demands as requested by CEO and CTO
- Conducting ad hoc analyses and providing business insights as requested
- Designing, implementing, and managing software and data systems, including tracking and reporting productivity of KPIs
- Source and manage procurement, shipments, and vendor negotiations
- Other responsibilities to meet business needs such as recruitment support, quality assurance, and ramping up farm production
Characteristics
- Organized, diligent, and process oriented
- High intellect and abstract problem solving
- Strong interpersonal skills including communication, collaboration, and relationship-building with colleagues
- Strong appetite for rapid learning, growth, and career acceleration
- Hungry to take on responsibility, solve novel problems, and organize systems
- Entrepreneurial, analytical, and solutions-oriented mindset
- Passion for sustainable food and agriculture
Qualifications
- 2-5 years of consulting or banking, operations, business operations, business analyst experience
- Bachelor's degree with high GPA and/or exceptional extracurricular achievements
- Track record and evidence of excellence in academic and/or career endeavors demonstrated by quick promotions, high responsibility roles, exceptional GPA, extracurricular leadership, etc.
- Experience and comfort working with excel for financial modeling and other analyses
- Comfort learning to use new software
- Eagerness to develop and exercise leadership
- Based in San Francisco or Georgia and willing to travel up to 30% of the time