Delivery Operations Team Lead (Intelligence)

The Delivery department combines intelligence, data, and technology experts to provide tailored solutions to major tech clients across a wide range of abuse areas and online harms.

As the Delivery Operations Team Lead, your mandate is not only to improve efficiency and operational agility but also to build, mentor, and scale a team of individual contributors into a cohesive, elite unit. This role requires a sharp, action-oriented leader focused on driving operational excellence across the Delivery team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Translate Delivery’s strategic goals into clear, scalable execution plans, with profitability margin optimization as a core KPI.
• Lead cross-Delivery operational coordination and methodology, partnering with vertical leads to translate client and project needs into scalable, automated workflows that drive standardization, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Ensure Delivery operational methodologies and workflows are aligned with Trust & Safety and Intelligence-driven delivery models, including handling sensitive content, complex abuse domains, and intelligence-informed decision-making.
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing Operations team, ensuring Ops Managers act as clear POCs for their verticals.
• Drive the adoption of new automation and AI-based operational tooling across Delivery to improve scale and efficiency.
• Plan and manage the Delivery budget, including forecasting, expense tracking, margin analysis, and vendor optimization.
• Own Delivery operational governance and performance tracking, including org charts, onboarding flows, KPIs, dashboards, structured reporting, and cross-Delivery operational processes.
• Own Delivery knowledge management, ensuring operational and client data is organized, accessible, and reusable.
• Act as the VP Operations’ right hand, supporting Delivery-related planning, presentations, and ad-hoc strategic initiatives.
  
  

Requirements:

• Proven intelligence background or experience is a must, including experience in cyber, intelligence, or Trust & Safety companies and/or hands-on experience in Web Intelligence, OSINT, or similar intelligence domains.
• Highly autonomous and independent, a leader who is capable of managing multiple priorities, resolving conflicts, and clearing obstacles without needing close supervision.
• Trust-builder who earns respect quickly, rallies people, and operates with high energy and a strong bias for execution.
• Able to challenge existing processes and propose better operational solutions.
• Experience working with budgets and cost-aware operations.
• Strong orientation toward documentation and knowledge management.
• AI enthusiast and a savvy user of LLMs & Gen AI apps.
• 3-5 years of experience in building and optimizing business processes using technological solutions, with a focus on automation.
• 3 years of experience leading Operations or Project Management teams.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
  
  

About ActiveFence:

ActiveFence is the leading provider of security and safety solutions for online experiences, safeguarding more than 3 billion users, top foundation models, and the world’s largest enterprises and tech platforms every day.

As a trusted ally to major technology firms and Fortune 500 brands that build user-generated and GenAI products, ActiveFence empowers security, AI, and policy teams with low-latency Real-Time Guardrails and a continuous Red Teaming program that pressure-tests systems with adversarial prompts and emerging threat techniques. Powered by deep threat intelligence, unmatched harmful-content detection, and coverage of 117+ languages, ActiveFence enables organizations to deliver engaging and trustworthy experiences at global scale while operating safely and responsibly across all threat landscapes.