About GIGR
GIGR (Giver's Ground) is on a mission to eliminate uncertainty from digital advertising. We believe that in the age of AI, marketing performance shouldn't rely on guesswork or slow, fragmented production cycles. It should be a high-velocity, feedback-driven science.
To achieve this, we are building playad.ai, a multi-agent marketing workflow designed to support the full creative lifecycle: briefing, production, experimentation, measurement, and iteration. We are starting by revolutionizing interactive ads for global brands, but our ultimate goal is to become the foundational infrastructure for all creative marketing. Backed by $5.4M in pre-seed funding from world-class investors like BRV Capital and Mirae Asset, we are a high-performing team of "Givers" driving toward a J-curve growth trajectory. We're not just building a tool, we're laying the foundation for the future of advertising.
The Role
We are hiring this role because the company needs a central operator who can turn chaos into systems.
GIGR is scaling across Seoul and San Francisco, and the complexity is increasing faster than our current infrastructure. Right now, too many critical decisions, workflows, and context live in the founding team's head. That does not scale.
Your role is to build and own the company's operating system. This is not about "helping" the CEO. This is about replacing ad-hoc execution with scalable systems across finance, people, and operations.
You will act as a force multiplier for the entire company:
- Turning ambiguous problems into structured solutions
- Converting decisions into repeatable processes
- Ensuring execution actually happens across teams and geographies
This is a high-leverage role with real authority. You will make decisions, not just prepare materials. You will own outcomes that directly impact how fast the company can grow.
You'll be the CEO's closest working partner, building systems for: financial reporting across two tax jurisdictions, a recruiting engine, onboarding and performance systems, compliance frameworks, and internal operations.
Some weeks you'll be doing deeply strategic work. Other weeks you'll be fixing a broken process at 11PM or chasing down a missing contract. Both are the job.
This role is designed as a foundational operator track.
If you perform well, this will naturally evolve into a Head / VP of Operations role, where you:
- Build and lead the operations, finance, and people functions
- Hire and manage your own team across geographies
- Own company-wide planning, budgeting, and operating cadence
- Play a central role in scaling the company from early-stage to a structured organization
We are not hiring for a fixed scope. We are hiring someone who can grow into owning how the company runs.
Responsibility
- Design and implement systems across finance, HR, legal, and internal operations. Eliminate single points of failure.
- Own budgeting, cash flow management, and monthly reporting across US & Korea
- Build recruiting pipelines, hiring processes, onboarding systems, compensation structures, and performance frameworks
- Own leadership meetings, board prep, investor updates, and strategic planning cycles
- Step into ambiguous problems with no clear owner and drive them to resolution
- Translate high-level goals into actionable plans and ensure cross-functional execution across Seoul and San Francisco
You'd be a good fit if:
- 5+ years in operations, biz ops, or bizops manager roles at a fast-growing company. You've done at least two of: managed a P&L, led strategic planning, built a financial model that drove a real decision, or operated across international markets.
- Financial chops. You've managed budgets, built models, and worked with auditors. You're comfortable in a spreadsheet and you've used numbers to change someone's mind, not just inform them.
- Hands-on people ops experience. You've recruited, onboarded, and shaped team culture.
- The ability to context-switch relentlessly. Reviewing a lease at 10am, building a hiring plan at 11am, prepping a board deck by 2pm.
- Bilingual fluency (Korean and English). Non-negotiable.
- You have likely worked in consulting, investment banking, or early-stage startups where you were expected to operate beyond your defined role.
Preferred:
- Direct experience navigating US and Korean business environments: employment law, tax, corporate governance across both.
- Previous startup experience during a rapid growth phase where "that's not my job" wasn't in your vocabulary.
- Familiarity with AdTech or SaaS business models.
