Operations & Growth Specialist
Location: Remote | Entry-level / Recent Grad | Competitive base + equity
One application. A network of companies that actually want to meet you. Please make sure to complete the assessment linked below in the JD. It is required.
MeritFirst is a curated talent network for high-growth startups, including 8VC and Slow Ventures portfolio companies and many others. We connect sharp early-career people with companies that are hiring right now. You apply once. We get you in front of the teams that fit.
Here’s the problem we fix: most grads fire off dozens of applications and get filtered out by a keyword screen before a human ever reads their name. Where you went to school, your GPA, whether you’ve ever held an “ops” title, none of that gets you past the bot. We flip it. Take one short assessment, show us how you actually think, and get put in front of real hiring managers.
No resume pile. No black hole. Just a real shot.
What you’d be doing
Operations and Growth is where the business actually gets built. You’d join one of the companies in our network and work on the problems that move revenue, customers, and the bottom line. Depending on the team, in a single week you might:
- Run a paid marketing experiment and measure what it actually returned
- Dig into customer data to find a growth opportunity nobody spotted
- Build a system or process that lets the company scale without breaking
- Work on a partnership that brings in new customers
- Untangle a workflow that’s slowing everyone down and fix it
The common thread: you take something messy and ambiguous, turn it into a plan, and ship it. You’ll learn how businesses really work, unit economics, acquisition, retention, the metrics that decide whether a company wins.
Who we’re looking for
We don’t care about your major, your GPA, or whether your resume looks the part. We care about how you think.
- You take something vague and turn it into a plan, no 100-page playbook required
- You like data and you use it to make calls, not just to make charts
- You’re resourceful. You figure out how to get it done with what you have
- You spot the bottleneck everyone’s working around and go fix it
- You can explain an idea clearly, in writing and out loud, to anyone
- You care about impact. You want to work on things that actually move the number
No ops experience required. We mean that. The instinct to own a problem and figure it out beats a polished resume every time. If this is how your brain already works, we want to hear from you.
What you’ll get
- Competitive base + equity, real upside as you grow
- Direct introductions to companies that hire on merit, not credentials
- Standing in a curated network: if one role isn’t the right fit, we put your work in front of other companies hiring through our platform. One application, many shots.
- One of the best business educations out there. If you want to lead, or start your own company someday, this is where you learn how.
How to apply
Take our short assessment. It’s required, and it’s the whole point: 20-30 minutes to show us how you actually solve problems, no resume gymnastics. It’s how we surface people whose talent doesn’t fit the traditional mold, and it’s the fastest way to get in front of a hiring manager.
Take it now: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/meritfirst/52c283c5-30fa-4095-9b65-6da9b7015df5
Skip the pile. Show them what you’ve got.
