Operation manager

THE OPPORTUNITY: Are You Ready to Tune a Sports Car?

If you are looking for a comfortable corporate shelter to passively collect a safe monthly salary, please close this page right now.

My name is Bulat Barantaev. Since 2014, my company has shipped 100,000+ premium garments to 100+ countries. We completely exited Russia in 2023, built a secure global supply chain, and are now running an optimized, highly automated scaling phase from our Berlin headquarters.

Right now, my business is like an exclusive, high-performance sports car sitting under a dust cover in a garage. It has beautiful engineering, a proven global footprint, and my briefcase is overflowing with new product designs and expansion strategies.

I am not looking for an «assistant.» I am looking for my primary teammate, an Operations Manager who is not afraid of «dust,» who has rolled up their sleeves in past projects, and who is inspired by the challenge of getting under the hood of a creative enterprise, mastering its systems, and driving it to its next global level alongside me.

1. THE ARCHETYPE: Built in the Garage, Not the Classroom

I am searching for a rare breed of manager: The «Garage-Bred» Systems Engineer.

• Your love for systems and order didn’t come from dry academic textbooks. It came from a deep, instinctual curiosity about how complex business machinery works. You are the professional equivalent of the one who grew up in the garage next to a master mechanic watching, learning, and taking immense pride in mastering the tools of the craft.

• You respect the diagnostic tools: When you enter my workshop and see the tracking systems, spreadsheets, and workflows I have spent years developing, you don’t ignore them. You master them, run and excel them, and use them to optimize the shop.
• You understand that hiding a broken part is a crime: In a real garage, if you see a hairline crack in an engine block and sweep it under the rug to avoid a difficult conversation, the car explodes at 200 mph. You drag every operational rattle, every logistics leak, and every delay into the light immediately so we can fix it together.

2. THE FIREWALL: We Have Zero Tolerance for «Hiders»

Because you will hold direct coordination authority over my global team and external agencies, I have built an absolute firewall against two dangerous categories of candidates: The Pretenders and The Ghosts.

A «HIDER» WILL FAIL HERE: (1) they pretend everything is «perfect»; (2) They shrink from tracking and tools; (3) They avoid being observed or audited; (4) They protect their ego over results; (5) They are soft on agencies; always making excuses.

A «BUILDER» WILL THRIVE HERE: (1) They drag problems into the light; (2) They embrace transparent diagnostic; (3) They welcome metric-driven feedback; (4) They protect the machine’s velocity; (5) They are uncompromisingly «Bad Cops» for KPIs.

If you treat structuredtracking tools as «micromanagement» rather than precision diagnostic instruments, or if you are terrified of absolute transparency, please do not apply. I am building a high-velocity safe haven where the truth is our only compass.

3. MY VISION: «The Day After Tomorrow»

I design for where the market will be «the day after tomorrow.» We are actively evolving our premium gear brand into a complete lifestyle brand for Urban Hedonists — defined by three core drivers: Aspiration & Status (Well-Earning & Luxury), Self-Actualization (Body/Health & Self-Worth), Experientialism (Travel & Nightlife). We are already designing product solutions for the rising Generation Z market.

• Our Ultimate Milestone: The Weekend Urban Village. Our ultimate experiential goal is the development of an immersive weekend urban «village» — a festival for grown-ups a weekend long escape held 1−2 times a year within a massive, trade-fair scale environment. It is engineered for high-profile, high-stress city professionals (from Wall Street to Tokyo or the City of London) to shed their corporate armor in a safe, default-friendly, and physically expressive community. We will activate this project the moment our core operational engines run flawlessly.

4. THE TEAM MATRIX: The Three Pillars

We keep our executive layer lean, balanced, and highly focused around three non-overlapping pillars:

1. The Creative Catalyst (Me): Drives the brand vision, creative designs, and «day after tomorrow» expansions.
2. The Operational Engine (You): Translates my vision into clear roadmaps, organizes execution, and ruthlessly closes open loops.
3. The Financial & Data Guardian (Your Executive Peer — Recruiting Simultaneously): Owns the analytical anchor—bookkeeping, cash flow, forecasting, and strict audits.

Your role is system design, resource allocation, and outcome management, not manual labor. While you will initially design workflows or help recruit specialized freelancers, you will ultimately manage and audit our newly expanding execution layer:

• Product Data Specialist (Recruiting Now): Owns our master database, style codes, SKU migrations, and website catalog copy.
• Marketing Specialist (Recruiting Now): Executes our email campaigns, automated CRM funnels, and ad placement.
• Fulfillment Specialist in Riga (Recruiting Now): Manages physical warehousing, shipping speed, and stock order accuracy.

Note on Events: We are not hiring a party manager right now. Event operations are on hold until our core e-commerce, manufacturing, and logistics engines run seamlessly.

5. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. System Coordination: Keep our remote team (Berlin, Riga, Miami, Kyiv) and outsourced agencies (marketing, photo/video production) aligned and strictly accountable to deadlines.
2. E-Commerce Operations: Supervise Shopify’s operational health, coordinate developers, manage discount configurations, and track conversion metrics.
3. Global Logistics Flow: Ensure inventory moves seamlessly from China production hubs to our warehouses in Riga and Miami, matching stock levels to active marketing campaigns.
4. Administrative Overwatch: Partner with our incoming Financial Guardian to coordinate document routing to our Berlin tax advisors (Lexoffice/DATEV) and monitor compliance for our Berlin retail flagship store.

Future Horizons: Preparing the operational blueprints for flagship stores in New York or San Francisco and designing our global franchising network.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, please send:

1. Your CV in English.
2. A brief, AI-assisted answer to this question: «You inherit an operational mess where people are hiding errors and ignoring the company’s tools. What is your step-by-step 'secret weapon' to restore transparency and turn it into a seamlessly working, delegated system?»

Our Automation Stack: Our business runs on over 50 custom corporate AI tools («virtual employees»). If you are a tech-forward thinker and want to know more about our AI integrations, our overall automation strategy, or our management philosophy, please include your questions directly in your cover letter. I am highly eager to discuss this with you.