Strategy and Operations

Job description

THE WORLD’S LARGEST LAW FIRM WON’T BE A LAW FIRM. JOIN US IN BUILDING IT. August allows law firms to compound their expertise by building an autonomous organization of AI agents that run the firm's knowledge work. We partner closely with our firms and grow alongside them through sharing revenue on our agents and equity in the firms we transform. We believe that in five years, more than 95% of legal work will be concentrated among a select few elite law firms. The firms that get there will be the ones that rebuild how they deliver it. We're partnering with those firms and building the engine they run on to become the biggest legal service provider in the world. We invest in partnerships, not just licenses. We sell finished legal work alongside our firms and take a share of what it earns. This enables them to scale their services and lets us grow along with it. That means we’re chasing the legal services market ($1T), which dwarfs the global legal tech market ($40b). The problem is hard. An engine of agents sits underneath every matter we touch, connected to every step of a lawyer's workflow, in an industry where there is no margin for error. We’re challenged with building the perfectly accurate, infallibly secure, and yet all-powerful engine for legal work. We're already live with several excellent firms and the early results are better than we expected. Lean team, in person, New York, backed by leading investors, growing fast. Every role at August is a chance to remake an industry while the window is open. About the Role: As a Strategy & Operations Lead, you will be the operating spine of August as we scale. You will turn strategic priorities into shipped systems, build out the partnerships channel from the ground up, and run the discrete projects that don't fit anywhere else. This is not a coordination role — you report directly to the founders, take ambiguous priorities, decide what to do about them, and own the outcome. What you'll do: - Build and own August's operating cadence — the weekly product-to-GTM digest, the sales-to-product loop, the monthly metrics review, and the dashboards that make all of it self-running as we scale. - Source, structure, and close commercial partnerships across two audiences. Integration partners that embed August in the legal tech stack, typically through rev-share negotiations that need to be closed before any technical work ships. Distribution partners that route legal work toward us — including industry consultants, bar associations, insurance carriers and brokers, and industry bodies. - Run two-week strategic sprints on whatever is highest-leverage that month — pricing for new practice areas, jurisdiction expansion, scoping new partnership profiles, modeling new sales motions. - Partner with product, engineering, GTM, and the legal team to take ambiguous founder priorities, build what needs to exist, and hand finished systems to long-term owners. - Track and report on partnership performance and operational metrics, surfacing insights that drive decisions in real time. What we're looking for: - 2–4 years of experience in strategy consulting, operations, BizOps, finance, or a high-performance startup in a Strategy & Ops or Chief-of-Staff seat. Priority given to former founders and people who can show us things they have shipped. - Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous brief and run it without supervision. You see things falling on the floor and pick them up before being asked. - AI-native operating fluency. AI is not a tool you sometimes use; it is how you operate. You can show us automations, agents, or internal tools you have built for yourself — not just used. - Comfort with commercial deal structure — enough to hold your own in a rev-share or partnership negotiation. - Strong written and verbal communication. You can synthesize messy input into a clear plan and defend it when challenged. - Excitement about working in person at our NYC office, with a team that values precision, pace, and constant reinvention. BENEFITS - Medical insurance coverage - Flexible PTO - Centralized office equipment ordering for all employees - Equinox or Chelsea Piers gym membership - In-office perks: lunch, dinner, snacks, drinks, and more - Budget for intra-office travel - Team-building events - Relocation support to NYC (as needed) WHY JOIN AUGUST - Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company. - Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership. - Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply. - Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession. - Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company. - In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment - Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions - Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.