Operations Associate at Paragon

You'll be the second operator at Paragon. Your hiring manager and partner is our Head of Strategy & Operations, who's spent four years building this function from scratch and wants a partner to extend it. You'll have line-of-sight into every function of the company: people, legal, finance, compliance, recruiting, vendors, IT, and more. Within twelve months, you'll know how Paragon operationally runs better than almost anyone here. It's a real operator role. Half of it is queue work: payroll, onboarding, benefits questions, vendor renewals, expense triage. You'll find satisfaction in systems that run smoothly and details done right. The other half is building. Paragon is AI-native by default - we already have a working bench of internal automations, and you'll extend it. You'll build automations alongside doing the work, with the Head of Ops as a design partner. You'll be close to the actual operating system of the company. The work is detailed, cross-functional, and very visible when it goes wrong. The goal is to keep the basics running cleanly while steadily making the system better. Run the details behind onboarding, offboarding, access, benefits questions, leave logistics, and e