🚧 Closing the Gaps That Sink Your Projects

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Featured Job Listings

🏆 Top Picks of the Week (Hand-Picked, High-Impact Roles)

Role: Head of US Operations
Company: Halter
Location: Boulder, CO | On-site
Why it’s great: At the intersection of agtech and frontier logistics, this role leads day-to-day US operations for a virtual fencing startup backed by Bessemer and DCVC. You’ll own delivery across onboarding, support, logistics, and deployment—with real hardware, real cows, and real impact.
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Recruiter Contact: Elena K.

Role: Chief of Staff
Company: Polar
Location: Remote – USA-compatible hours preferred
Why it’s great: Work directly with the founder of an open-source monetization startup used by devs in 100+ countries. This is a strategic, do-it-all role for someone who’s part operator, part analyst, part team whisperer—and ready to shape an org at inflection.
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Recruiter Contact: Birk Jernstrom

Role: Director of Operations
Company: Sword Health
Location: Remote – Portugal-based (EU work visa required)
Why it’s great: Lead a 100+ person ops org at one of Europe’s fastest-growing digital health companies, valued at $4B. You’ll architect member experience, logistics, staffing, and automation at global scale—this is delivery leadership on hard mode (and they know it).
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Recruiter Contact: Ines Soares da Costa

Role: Director, Enterprise Implementations
Company: Ramp
Location: New York, San Francisco, or Remote (US/Canada) | Hybrid
Why it’s great: Lead a team of CSMs responsible for onboarding Ramp’s largest enterprise clients—owning the customer activation playbook, implementation strategy, and cross-functional GTM partnerships at a fintech rocketship. With $80B in annual spend and top-tier investors, this is delivery at the bleeding edge of scale.
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Recruiter Contact: Zach Williams

Bots Take the Wheel

🤖 Bots Take the Wheel: “Onboard Like a Boss”

Getting new hires or project team members up to speed shouldn’t involve 37 links and a scavenger hunt. This Make.com automation builds a seamless onboarding flow—so every new team member gets the context, access, and priorities they need, automatically.

🧩 Trigger: Add a new member to a Notion database

Whenever you add a new person to your “Project Team” table in Notion (with fields like role, start date, and project ID), it kicks off the onboarding cascade.

📧 Step 1: Slack Welcome Packet

Send a personalized Slack DM with:

• Project overview

• Who’s who (with Notion profile links)

• Key Slack channels to join

• TL;DR of team norms ("Standup is async, docs live in Confluence, we don’t use email")

📂 Step 2: Auto-provision folders and docs

Use Make to duplicate a templated onboarding folder in Google Drive (or Notion workspace), pre-filled with:

• Project charter

• Current roadmap

• Recent retros

• Open risks/issues

The file names auto-populate based on the project and new hire’s name.

📅 Step 3: Schedule 1:1s and async check-ins

Automatically create a Google Calendar invite for:

• A welcome 1:1 with their manager

• A “First 5 Days” checklist review

• A 2-week feedback sync (linking to a Notion check-in form)

Optional: Pipe these into a shared onboarding tracker for visibility.

Visionary Voices 

📝 Alicia Boler Davis – Ops Trailblazer with a Purpose

Why she matters:
From her early days solving manufacturing challenges at GM to scaling Amazon’s fulfillment engines through COVID, and now leading Alto Pharmacy’s mission to rethink medicine delivery, Alicia Boler Davis is a master of operational transformation and human-centered leadership.

What she brings:

• Systems-level delivery leadership: As GM’s EVP of global manufacturing and later Amazon’s SVP of Global Customer Fulfillment, she oversaw major process overhauls—doubling capacity, managing 150+ warehouses, and hiring 275,000 employees during the pandemic.

• Startup resilience and mission clarity: Turning down Fortune 500 CEO offers, she chose Alto Pharmacy—driven by its potential to improve health outcomes and fix broken systems, not prestige.

• Mentorship with empathy: She openly credits both male and female mentors and now, in turn, coaches mainly women, offering the reassurance, "it's okay to feel lost," based on her own experience.

Want to go deeper?

• Hear her at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit: “A Conversation With Alicia Boler Davis” → YouTube 90‑min talk +

• Dive into her startup switch in Inc.: “What Alicia Boler Davis Had to ‘Unlearn’ From Jeff Bezos”—on balancing scale with nimble execution

Call to action:
Connect on LinkedIn or follow her podcast appearances—study how she turns complexity into culture, spreadsheets into speed, and hard ops into a human story.

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Professional Development

🧠 Pro Dev: Stop Scope Drift in Its Tracks

Scope creep doesn’t crash in—it seeps. One enhancement, one stakeholder “quick ask,” one extra tab in that dashboard. Before long, your “slim MVP” is a feature buffet with no runway left.

Here’s how to hold the line—without becoming the “no” person.

1. 💡 Anchor scope in outcomes, not features

Start with impact, not components. “Reduce onboarding time by 30%” is a north star. “Add a login UX” is a landmine. Anchor your backlog to measurable, behavior-based outcomes that tie directly to business value.

2. 🛑 Get the “not-that” list

Before you kick off, ask: What are we not solving right now? It’s a subtle trick that surfaces future asks early and lets you codify guardrails in advance. Even better? Get leadership to nod. “This isn’t a reporting project” is a sacred sentence you can pull out in Week 7.

3. ✂️ Celebrate “no” moments

Decision fatigue is real. So build “nope checkpoints” into your cadence. Every two weeks, publish a simple list: Yes, No, Parked. Make it a hero slide. When everyone sees the scope choices transparently, they stop sneaking in extras via Slack.

4. 📊 Data over debate

Put up a micro-dashboard: WIP count, new requests, and delivery window. If scope expands, make the trade-offs explicit. “If we add these two, which two do we delay?” Visuals win arguments—and align execs fast.

5. 🪙 Formalize gold-plating rules

If you’re constantly rebuilding “just to make it nicer,” it’s time for thresholds. One stakeholder tweak? Fine. Two? Flag for review. Three? Trigger a scoped impact doc—timeline, budget, team load. Gold is expensive. Treat it like it.

TL;DR:

Fix the cracks before they flood the sprint.

• Frame your scope in outcomes

• Lock guardrails early

• Use data, not gut feels

• And make every “yes” earn its place

If your delivery's slipping, the problem’s probably upstream. Start there. Your roadmap will thank you.

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Until next time,

The Business of Delivery

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