Business Operations

Tempo

Tempo

Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 6, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Operations

Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.

Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.

We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.

We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. Our team primarily works in-person out of our San Francisco and NYC offices. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!

The Role

As one of the first operations hires, you’ll be key to making sure the company runs smoothly and scales effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Spearhead and manage company metrics, dashboard creation, and OKR tracking

  • Support financial planning and operations

  • Run cross-functional projects from end-to-end – from problem identification to scalable solution implementation

  • Build and improve workflows, systems, and documentation across the company

  • Vet, onboard, and manage vendors

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of startup or high growth tech company experience in an operations or finance role; or equivalent management consulting experience

  • Deep experience driving cross-functional data-driven decisions

  • BA/BS

  • Bonus: strong familiarity with AI tools and workflow improvements

Attributes

  • Excellent organizational and project management skills, with an eye for detail

  • Highly adaptable and comfortable working in ambiguous environments

  • Self-starter with a bias towards action

  • Scrappiness; willingness to roll up sleeves and pitch in wherever needed

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Passion for crypto and/or fintech