Business Operations Contractor, Incubations
Posted: 08/03/2026
Job Number: 42594
Job Description
Business Operations Contractor, Incubations
Onsite
Summary
This role is SF-preferred and on-site, but we’re open to US-based candidates for the right person. This role is not eligible for relocation support.As a Business Operations Contractor, you are the person who gets our early tests into the real world. You’ll help own the thesis, and more importantly, you’ll make it happen on the ground. That means getting pilots into the market, doing the fieldwork, and being in the room when we run a test for the first time. You move fast with whatever’s available and you’re comfortable doing work that doesn’t scale yet, because that’s how we learn. Our ideas are only as good as our ability to put them in front of real customers.
Responsibilities
THE PROMISES WE MAKE:
At Crystal Equation, we empower people and advance technology initiatives by building trust. Your recruiter will prep you for the interview, obtain feedback, guide you through any necessary paperwork and provide everything you need for a successful start. We will serve to empower you along the way and provide the path for your professional journey.
For more information regarding our Privacy Policy, please visit crystalequation.com/privacy.
Onsite
Summary
This role is SF-preferred and on-site, but we’re open to US-based candidates for the right person. This role is not eligible for relocation support.As a Business Operations Contractor, you are the person who gets our early tests into the real world. You’ll help own the thesis, and more importantly, you’ll make it happen on the ground. That means getting pilots into the market, doing the fieldwork, and being in the room when we run a test for the first time. You move fast with whatever’s available and you’re comfortable doing work that doesn’t scale yet, because that’s how we learn. Our ideas are only as good as our ability to put them in front of real customers.
Responsibilities
- Get pilots into market: own the logistics that turn a concept into a live test — sourcing partners, scheduling, locations, and the details no one else is tracking.
- Do the fieldwork: show up in person where the test happens — a home, a market, a partner site — and do the hands-on work to make it real.
- Keep the trains running: track tasks, dates, and open items across several tests at once so nothing slips, and flag blockers early.
- Capture what we learn: write up customer conversations and pilot results clearly enough that the team can make a fast call on what to scale and what to kill.
- Example deliverables includes:
- Recruit: for a 12-month rental test, recruit hosts in a target market and talk to landlords and tenants about their pain points and what we could solve.
- Vet: for a “Reviewed by Company” test, find a third-party inspection partner and run on-site training with them on how to inspect and review a home.
- Scrappy and hands-on: You move with the resources you have, not the ones you wish you had. No task is beneath you — you’ll cold-call a host, drive to a site, or build the tracker at midnight to keep a test moving.
- Comfortable in the field: You are comfortable going into market and working with the local team or contracts to get tests off the ground.
- Bias to action: You’d rather run a rough test this week than a perfect one next quarter, and you know when that trade-off is right.
- Organized under ambiguity: You juggle several half-defined projects at once, hold the details, and stay calm when the plan changes.
- Open-minded and resourceful: You find workarounds when the obvious path is blocked. You partner, borrow, and improvise to get to signal cheaply.
- Clear communicator: You write up what you learned plainly and fast, so others can act on it.
- L9–L11 equivalent, with a track record of getting things done in operations, growth, launch, consulting, or a startup with little structure. This is a contract role — we weight hustle and judgment as heavily as title or tenure.
THE PROMISES WE MAKE:
At Crystal Equation, we empower people and advance technology initiatives by building trust. Your recruiter will prep you for the interview, obtain feedback, guide you through any necessary paperwork and provide everything you need for a successful start. We will serve to empower you along the way and provide the path for your professional journey.
For more information regarding our Privacy Policy, please visit crystalequation.com/privacy.
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