VP Operations

We are

Lema AI is a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS company on a mission to ensure modern businesses never fail because of a third-party incident. We’re reimagining the stagnant Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and cyber resilience space by moving companies from reactive compliance to proactive, real-time risk prevention powered by advanced AI.

Already trusted by industry-leading enterprises, Lema is entering a phase of hypergrowth. We’re tripling our team as we build a category-defining platform, guided by a culture of radical ownership, transparency, and fast, cross-functional execution. If you thrive in high-context, high-impact environments, you’ll feel at home here.

More About Lema

• Lema.ai website
• Business Insider - Cybersecurity startup Lema has come out of stealth to raise $24 million
• Team8 - Why We Invested In Lema
  
  

• McKinsey - nearly one-third of recent cyber breaches originated from third parties
• Hitch Partners - Third-party risk dominates security priorities, with AI-enhanced attacks and cloud misconfigurations completing the top three concerns.
  
  

• Strategic Partner to the Founders: Act as the trusted right-hand and sounding board to the CEO and founding team. You will take our high-level strategic vision and translate it into operational reality, proactively identifying organizational blind spots before they become bottlenecks.
• Global Operating Rhythm & Compliance: Own the company’s alignment frameworks across our IL and US sites. You will drive the OKR planning cycles, executive offsites, and management cadences. Additionally, you will partner with R&D to drive our internal compliance and audit readiness (e.g., SOC 2), ensuring Lema practices the elite risk management we preach.
• Finance & Legal Operations: Serve as the primary owner of our external legal counsel and take interim leadership of our finance function until a dedicated VP of Finance is hired. You will manage our outsourced accounting firm, oversee the global budget and payroll across IL/US, and handle the commercial contract pipeline (NDAs, DPAs, vendor agreements) to keep deals moving fast.
• People & Talent Operations: Manage our internal recruiting efforts and lead our global talent strategy. You will mature our existing people operations to seamlessly support our rapid scaling, overseeing the entire employee lifecycle - from talent acquisition and onboarding to retention, development, and culture.
• Global Site Leadership: Act as the General Manager for both our Tel Aviv headquarters and our US office. You will directly manage our IL Operations Manager and oversee day-to-day office operations, procurement, software tooling (SaaS stack consolidation), and physical site security across all company locations.
  
  

• The "Full-Stack" Operator: 5+ years of operational leadership experience at a B2B SaaS startup (Series A to C stage). You know what "good" looks like when scaling from 30 to 100+ employees.
• Cross-Border Experience: You have explicitly managed operations across both Israeli and US entities. You understand the cultural, legal, and operational nuances of supporting a US-based GTM team from Israel.
• High Autonomy & Low Ego: We do not need a manager of managers right now. You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to fix a broken payroll process today, and presenting a global budget to the board tomorrow.
• Process Engineering Mindset: You inherently hate inefficiency. When you see founders manually approving things or tracking data in messy spreadsheets, your first instinct is to automate and standardize it.
  
  

• Impact: Build a category-defining platform that safeguards how modern businesses operate.
• Ownership: Join a culture that gives you full context, autonomy, and trust to drive outcomes.
• Velocity: Work with exceptional peers in a high-energy, low-bureaucracy environment.
• Growth: Shape a company that’s scaling rapidly, backed by Tier 1 investors and visionary customers.