VP Operations

ABOUT FENCE Fence is building the modern infrastructure for asset-backed finance. Today, asset-backed finance is still administered through spreadsheets, PDFs, manual reconciliation, slow drawdowns, bespoke legal and capital-markets processes, and fragmented information between originators, lenders, investors, SPVs, agents, and servicers. This is not just inefficient back office work. It is one of the reasons capital moves slowly, assets are hard to finance, and private credit markets remain less liquid, less transparent, and less programmable than they should be. Fence replaces the spreadsheets, PDFs, and email with modern infrastructure based on APIs, AI, smart contracts and stablecoins. In the near term, this makes Fence the tech-native facility agent for modern asset-backed finance: the operating layer that runs the facility and the SPV end to end. The larger vision is to enable the instant originate-to-distribute model for every asset originator: assets born with the data, controls, eligibility checks, cash-flow logic, and investor visibility required to be financed and distributed continuously. Joining Fence means helping build the operating system for how capital moves into assets and back again. THE MISSION Your long-term mission will be to turn Fence into a scalable, institutional-grade organization that can grow 100x sustainably. WHAT YOU WILL OWN - Company Operations: Finance, people ops, budgeting, compliance, reporting, ... Build the internal operating machine that lets Fence scale without chaos. - Revenue Operations: Build the operating system for growth. - Client Operations: Client Onboarding and Customer Success. - Fence's AI-Native Operating System: Design processes around human judgment where it matters and automation where it reduces drag. WHO YOU ARE You are an operator who has seen enough scale to know what good looks like, but you still want to build hands-on. Strong candidates will likely have: - High agency: you do not wait for permission or perfect clarity. - Strong communication with technical, commercial, finance, and operations teams. - A taste for detail without becoming bureaucratic. - Comfort working with founders in high-intensity, high-ambiguity environments. - Experience scaling an operating function or company from roughly 15-20 people toward 50-100+, or from early revenue toward $10M-$20M+ ARR. - Strong structured thinking and analytical ability. - Enough finance / capital markets / regulated-process fluency to be credible in Fence's market. - Hands-on ability to build processes, dashboards, operating cadences, and teams from scratch. - Excitement for the first 6 months of hands-on operating work, not just the eventual COO title. WHY YOU MAY NOT BE A FIT This role is deliberately not designed for someone who wants a mature COO mandate on day one. You may not be a fit if: - You prefer to wait for clearer goals, cleaner ownership, or a more complete brief before moving. - You are at your best when incentives, handoffs, decision rights, and reporting lines are already well defined. - You enjoy diagnosing operating problems more than driving the messy follow-through across people, process, dashboards, and systems. - You want to manage an existing operations team more than personally build the first version of the operating system. - You add process when something feels chaotic, even if the process does not clearly reduce founder load, cycle time, or decision latency. LOCATION NYC preferred. Madrid / Europe is possible for an exceptional candidate who can operate effectively with the US revenue team and travel regularly. WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS Fence is trying to build infrastructure for a market that still runs on manual workflows. The product promise is speed, control, transparency, and trust. The company has to operate with the same standard. If we get this role right, Fence can grow faster without adding chaos. We can sell more, onboard faster, serve clients better, build with clearer priorities, and give institutional counterparties confidence that Fence is not just a strong product but a company that can become critical market infrastructure.