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# VP of Operations at Nametag

- **Company:** Nametag
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nametag/jobs/4386013009

## Job description

VP of Operations

Remote, US

## About Nametag

Nametag is building the future of secure digital identity. Our mission is to protect every human identity to restore trust in the AI era. We bring workforce-grade identity verification into the enterprise to verify the human behind accounts and critical actions. Today, global enterprises use Nametag across their workforce to prevent social engineering and deepfake impersonation attacks.

## The Role

The VP of Operations owns the company-wide operating system that turns strategy into coordinated execution. You will connect priorities, investments, resources, and performance across Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Finance, and People so the company moves with speed and cohesion as it scales. This is a hands-on builder role for a highly organized operator who can see around corners, connect dots across functions, and bring clarity to a fast-moving environment. You will partner closely with the CEO and leadership team to determine what matters most, keep decisions and commitments moving, and ensure teams stay aligned from product investment through commercial execution while developing consistency across the company for effective and efficient operations.

## What You'll Do

- Company operating rhythm and strategic alignment
- Run the rhythm of the business, including leadership meetings, company planning, business reviews, and two to three company offsites each year. Translate strategy into a clear portfolio of priorities, decisions, owners, and milestones; track actions through closure. Connect dependencies across functions, surface conflicts early, and help leaders make explicit trade-offs about where the company invests time, talent, and capital.
- Portfolio prioritization, investment, and resourcing
- Build and run a disciplined intake and prioritization process for company-level and cross-functional initiatives. In partnership with Finance, define business cases, funding decisions, performance gates, and stop or-scale criteria for key investments. Partner with People/HR on organization design, headcount, contractor, and capability planning aligned to strategy. Maintain a clear view of demand, capacity, cost, and trade-offs so leadership can allocate resources to the highest-impact work.
- Systems, tools, and scalable infrastructure
- Assess the tools, data, processes, and operating infrastructure required to scale each function and the company as a whole. Establish clear ownership and standards, improve adoption and data quality, automate recurring work, and retire redundant or low-value tools and processes. Lead change with practical communication and enough flexibility to meet teams where they are.
- OKRs, performance, and cross-functional execution
- Own the company OKR process and maintain credible scorecards and dashboards, including definitions, owners, data hygiene, and review cadence. Keep an initiative-level view of priorities, dependencies, risks, decisions, and expected outcomes. Use operational and financial data to identify patterns, challenge assumptions, and recommend action—not simply report status. Step in to drive critical cross-functional programs when focused ownership is needed.

## What You'll Bring

- A highly organized, detail-oriented operating style: you create structure, follow through relentlessly, and can move between company-level context and execution details without losing either.
- Exceptional ability to connect dots across functions, anticipate downstream implications, and preserve cohesion as priorities shift.
- Strong prioritization and judgment. You distinguish urgent from important, frame trade-offs clearly, and help teams focus on the few outcomes that matter most.
- Analytical fluency: you can read operating and financial data, find the signal, and turn it into a decision or recommendation.
- Clear executive communication: you can compress ambiguity into a concise recommendation, facilitate a decision, and document what happens next.
- Low-ego influence and the confidence to hold senior peers accountable without formal authority.
- A self-starting, flexible, high-energy approach; comfort shifting between building systems, facilitating leaders, and solving an urgent execution problem. Sound judgment with sensitive and confidential information.

## Qualifications

- 10+ years in business operations, strategy and operations, or a chief of staff role, including direct partnership with executives at a high-growth technology company.
- A track record of building company operating cadence, planning, OKRs, and cross-functional execution systems—not only running a system someone else built.
- Fluency in the operating mechanics of a technology business, including budgeting, forecasting, headcount planning, resource allocation, and performance metrics.
- Experience evaluating and improving business systems and tools across functions; familiarity with CRM, BI, planning, and collaboration platforms.
- Demonstrated cross-functional delivery across Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Finance, and People/HR, including demand and capacity management across competing priorities.
- Experience owning an operating budget and vendor portfolio. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; MBA is a plus, not required.
- Experience in a venture-backed startup is strongly preferred; familiarity with security, identity, or SaaS is a plus.

## What We Value

- Intellectual horsepower. Quickly grasping complex technical and business concepts.
- Kindness and integrity. Earning trust is central to how we build relationships with customers and colleagues.
- Bias for action. We move quickly to deliver impact and protect our customers against fast-moving threats.
- Ownership mindset. You care about uptime and stability the way a founder cares about the product.

Culture & Perks

At Nametag, we believe trust starts with how we treat each other. We're a remote-first team that values autonomy, inclusivity, and collaboration, with regular in-person time to stay connected and innovate together.

- Remote-first: Work from anywhere in the US. Our team spans Seattle, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Denver, New York City, and beyond.
- Off-sites: We bring the team together once per quarter for in-person collaboration, often off-site in new places.
- Flexible schedules: Work in your own time zone; we align key meetings across a shared window.

## We Offer

- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity ownership
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Flexible paid time off
- Quarterly team off-sites and travel support
- New computer hardware and equipment
- An inclusive environment where your voice has impact and your work drives change

## About Nametag

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nametag is a workforce-grade identity verification platform that uses cryptography, biometrics, and AI to protect accounts from deepfakes, social engineering, and account takeover.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup) – has completed at least two funding rounds (Venture Round in 2021 and a Funding Round in 2023), but the specific series stage is not publicly disclosed.
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States (with a physical office in the Capitol Hill neighborhood)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Aaron Painter (CEO) and Ross Kinder (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity / Identity Verification (Computer and Network Security)
- **Target customers**: B2B; security-conscious enterprises in healthcare, insurance, financial services, social media, software, and higher education; also serves high-risk customer scenarios.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We’re on a mission to protect every account on the internet.”

## Products & Services
- **Deepfake Defense™ Identity Verification Engine**: Proprietary combination of spatial liveness detection (Spatial Selfie™), Adaptive Document Verification™, and Cryptographic Attestation™ to detect and prevent AI-generated deepfakes, presentation attacks, and injection attacks.
- **Workforce Identity Verification**: SaaS solution for employee onboarding, secure account recovery, and helpdesk verification. Integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Duo by Cisco, Cloudflare, ServiceNow, Beyond Identity, Greenhouse, OneLogin, Zendesk, Workday, and more.
- **Customer Identity Verification**: Extends the same workforce-grade verification to customer-facing support channels (voice, chat, email) to prevent account takeovers and reduce fraud.
- **Employee Onboarding**: Automated new-account provisioning that stops threat actors from infiltrating during hiring and provisioning processes.
- **Self-Service & Agent-Assisted Solutions**: Branded microsites and integrated workflows for password/MFA resets and ticket resolution, reducing IT support costs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – two rounds raised (2021 Venture Round and 2023 Funding Round), each with 1 investor. Specific amounts are not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investor names are not disclosed. Strategic integration partners include Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Duo by Cisco, Cloudflare, ServiceNow, Beyond Identity, Greenhouse, OneLogin, Zendesk, Workday.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 36.7% year-over-year to 33 employees. LinkedIn followers increased 53.8% year-over-year. Trusted by world leaders in healthcare, insurance, financial services, and software. Rolled out Self-Service Account Recovery tool targeting AI-generated deepfake attacks.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deepfake Defense™** – Proprietary next-gen identity verification engine that uses spatial liveness detection (Spatial Selfie™) to effectively counter AI-generated deepfakes and presentation attacks.
- **Cryptographic Attestation™** – Cryptographically signed digital signatures prevent injection attacks and ensure data integrity.
- **Reusable, Un-loseable Identity** – Users can reverify with just a selfie; identity persists even when changing devices, with no app download required.
- **Privacy-Preserving Architecture** – Designed to exceed data protection standards, with customizable privacy and security controls.
- **Omni-channel & Meta-layer** – Connects across IAM, SIEM, ITSM, and HRIS systems, enabling automated self-service and agent-assisted verification from any support channel.

## Strategic Focus
- **Protecting accounts in the age of AI-powered impersonation** – Expanding coverage against deepfakes, social engineering, and hiring fraud.
- **Reducing IT support costs** – Through self-service password/MFA resets and automated verification that offloads helpdesk tickets.
- **Expanding enterprise trust** – Winning security-conscious customers in highly regulated industries (healthcare, finance, insurance).
- **Growing integration ecosystem** – Building out the meta-layer across identity infrastructure providers.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture** – Team spread across Seattle, Ann Arbor, Denver, Oakland, Boston, NYC, and DC. Aligned meetings across time zones; no water-cooler exclusivity.
- **In-Person Connection** – Quarterly team off-sites (often outside Seattle) to build camaraderie and collaborate in person.
- **Benefits & Equity** – Competitive salary, stock options, comprehensive health (medical, dental, vision), flexible time off, 401(k) with employer match, new computer hardware/equipment.
- **Diversity & Inclusion** – Emphasizes diverse backgrounds and perspectives, with an inclusive environment and integrity-driven decision-making.
- **Growth Opportunity** – Transitioning from stealth to a well-known brand; employees work directly with experienced leaders and shape the team’s success.
- **Open Roles** (as of search date): Enterprise Account Executive, Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Full Stack), Senior GRC Analyst, Technical Customer Engineer, Channel Partnerships Manager, Principal Software Engineer.

## Sources
1. [getnametag.com](https://getnametag.com/)
2. [getnametag.com/about](https://getnametag.com/about)
3. [getnametag.com/careers](https://getnametag.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/getnametag](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getnametag)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/nametag](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nametag)

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