Head of Operations
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Job description
Head of Operations at Prior Labs, reporting to the Co-CEO for GTM and Operations, owning operational excellence company-wide and building the operations function as the company scales. The role partners with Finance, Legal, People, IT and InfoSec, and Compliance leads and leads the operations team.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Berlin, Germany
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Own how the company runs operationally and design processes that hold up as headcount, revenue, and complexity grow fast
- See coming what breaks at each new stage of growth and rebuild ahead of the curve so operations never becomes the ceiling on how fast the company can move
- Be accountable for the operational side of finance, people, legal, and the wider back office, with IT, InfoSec, and compliance covered through the relevant leads
- Set the standard and make sure nothing important falls between functions
- Take the most complex, cross-functional problems and drive them to resolution, bringing the right stakeholders to the table and motivating them to deliver
- Frame trade-offs, surface risk early, and turn decisions into action so the leadership team works from reliable data and sound judgment
- Hire, develop, and lead an operations team people want to be part of, and set a standard of execution that raises the bar
What we're looking for
- Has operated inside a company through rapid scaling, seen what breaks at each stage, and built the processes and structures that scaled through it
- Has run operations across multiple countries and regions, comfortable holding a company together across time zones and jurisdictions
- Has driven operational excellence across two or more of finance, people, legal, and business operations as a senior generalist, partnering with specialist leads rather than owning their decisions
- Builds and develops strong teams and is the kind of person other excellent operators want to come and work with
Nice to have
- Experience in the data, developer tools, or AI market, and comfort working credibly with a technical, research-led team
- Has built an operations function that grew with a company from startup into real scale
Your team
Operations
The operations team, which this role leads and grows into one fit for a company many times its current size.
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About Prior Labs
What LLMs did for language, we're doing for tables.
Prior Labs pioneered tabular foundation models; TabPFN v2 was a Nature cover story, has passed 3.5M+ downloads and 7,500+ GitHub stars, and runs in production from detecting lung disease with Oxford Cancer Analytics to preventing train failures with Hitachi. In July 2026, less than 18 months after its €9M pre-seed, it joined SAP as an independent frontier AI lab, backed by more than €1 billion over four years.
Mission
Do for structured data what foundation models did for text and images.
Key facts
- 40+
- AI / foundation models
- TabPFN v2 was a Nature cover story
- TabPFN v2 has passed 3.5M+ downloads and 7,500+ GitHub stars
- Joined SAP in July 2026 as an independent frontier AI lab
- Backed by more than €1 billion over four years
- Teams based in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York
- Led by Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, and Sauraj Gambhir
- Advised by Bernhard Schölkopf and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun
Partners & customers
What they value
- Radical ownership
- Practical and pragmatic
- Calm and decisive under ambiguity
- High bar in quality of work and how people work with each other