Business Operations Associate
Location: Austin (3-4 days in office)
Compensation: $100,000-120,000 + benefits and equity
Linok is transforming the dairy industry through precision farming technology. Our AI-powered platform combines real-time sensors with advanced analytics to give farmers continuous insights into milk quality and herd health—helping them detect issues early, optimize production, and improve animal welfare.
We're at the forefront of a revolution that's making dairy farming more efficient, sustainable, and humane. Backed by leading investors and working with top dairy operations across the US, we're building the intelligence layer for modern agriculture.
About the Role
Linok is hiring a Business Operations Associate to work directly with the CEO on the company’s most important strategic and operating priorities. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, go-to-market, and execution. You will help define how the business scales and then build the mechanisms to make it happen.
You’ll own cross-functional initiatives spanning market expansion, pricing and business model design, go-to-market execution, partnerships, and financial planning. That means setting direction, building the operating plan, and driving implementation alongside cross-functional partners. You’ll be responsible for helping Linok turn early traction and pilots into a repeatable commercial motion and ensuring the company is set up to scale.
This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to operate at the center of an early-stage company, with real influence over decisions and outcomes. Your work will directly shape how Linok grows from early deployments into a durable, category-defining agriculture technology company.
Examples of What You’ll Do
Strategic Projects
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, TAM sizing, market entry evaluations, and partnership due diligence to inform expansion decisions
- Develop pricing strategy, business model refinements, and GTM plans for new products
- Build financial models for investor updates, business cases, and scenario planning
Go-to-Market Execution
- Coordinate pilot deployments, track performance metrics, and convert pilots to paying customers
- Build partner onboarding materials, sales playbooks, and channel economic models
- Set up CRM, build sales dashboards, design lead qualification processes, and develop customer segmentation
- Create pitch decks, ROI calculators, case studies, and competitive battlecards
Operational Infrastructure
- Design core workflows for customer onboarding, partner management, and internal processes
- Manage and help select corporate vendors
- Establish planning cadences: quarterly OKRs, monthly business reviews, board materials
- Build executive dashboards tracking key business metrics
Customer & Market Insights
- Conduct customer interviews and develop case studies
- Coordinate with marketing on events, conferences, and collateral
- Gather feedback to inform product and GTM strategy
Finance & Fundraising
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes
- Prepare investor materials, board decks, and business reviews
- Assist with fundraising efforts and investor relations
What We're Looking For
- 2-3 years in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or business operations at a high-growth startup with proven execution ability
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to build financial models, analyze complex datasets, and use quantitative rigor to drive decisions
- Hands-on execution mindset with willingness to roll up sleeves and do the work, from building dashboards to managing external partners/service providers
- Bias toward speed and comfort with startup ambiguity: own outcomes, not just tasks, and maintain momentum despite obstacles
- Excellent project management skills juggling multiple priorities, deadlines, and coordinating across functions
- Strong communication skills with ability to build trust and drive adoption without formal authority across diverse stakeholders
- Proficiency in Excel/Sheets for analyses and financial modeling
- Passion for modernizing agriculture and solving real-world problems for farmers
- Nice to have: experience in AgTech; familiarity with hardware + software business models
Why Join Linok?
This role offers unusual breadth for someone early in their career: exposure to every part of the business, direct access to leadership, and the autonomy to take ownership of high-impact projects. If you're energized by building from the ground up and want to make a tangible impact on the future of agriculture, this is your opportunity.
You'll work directly with a founding team that brings deep domain expertise and proven execution: decades of experience managing commercial dairy farms combined with building AI and robotics products at scale. As an early employee, your work will directly shape our trajectory.
