The objective of this role is to turn interest in Basis into signed, funded partnerships: more of them, closed faster, with nothing lost along the way.

Basis works with partners, customers, funders and investors on research collaborations, pilots and longer-term contracts. The founders and project leads own those relationships. The Business Operations Associate has three primary responsibilities:

Operate the deal pipeline. Keep every partnership, contract, gift and investor conversation in one CRM, each with an owner and a next step. Schedule the meetings, send the follow-ups, take contracts from first draft to signature, and prepare the weekly review of where things stand and what needs a decision.

Scale Basis's business opportunities. Start more of the right conversations, sooner: research prospective partners and funders, keep inbound interest warm, and prepare the founders for events and introductions.

Scale the business operations infrastructure. Build the CRM, templates, automations and reporting that let a small team handle many deals, using AI tools wherever they help.

Each deal will have one person responsible for what happens next, and often that person will be you. It is an early point in the life of Basis, and the systems you set up now will be the ones we scale with.

We expect you to:

Finish what you start. Nothing you own goes quiet, and nobody has to remind you.

Have a record of noticing what needed doing, or a better way to do it, and doing it without being asked. We will ask for examples.

Keep records accurate. You have run a CRM or similar tool (HubSpot, Attio, Salesforce or equivalent) and kept it correct for the people who depend on it. A missed follow-up or a wrong number in a contract is a real problem, and you treat it as one.

Write clearly and quickly: follow-up emails, meeting notes, short briefings.

Keep commercial, funder and investor information confidential.

Business Operations Associate

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Company

Basis Research

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