Business Operations Lead, Global Partnerships

Business Operations Lead, Global Partnerships

Shape the Future of Finance Pagaya is building a leading artificial intelligence network to help our partners grow their businesses and better serve their customers. Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide, as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv.

Let's create better outcomes together!

About the Role

We are seeking an Operations Lead to drive process design, implementation, evaluation and oversight that drives efficiency, effectiveness, speed and scalability across our global partnerships team. The goal is to streamline the organization to support new partner onboarding and ongoing partnership development.

This role is focused on optimizing operations and processes within the team (across the global locations), across Pagaya departments and with partners. Success will rely on building a deep understanding of the business and existing processes, business operations analysis & design and project management skills.

You will be at the intersection of strategy and execution, ensuring optimal collaboration across U.S. and Israel teams to create scalable operational processes that achieve the teams primary KPIs: originations volume, profitability, relationship management, upsell/cross-sell.

Responsibilities

Core Focus:

• Drive cross-functional processes that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Partnerships team - both internally and with external partners.
• Project manage end-to-end workflows, ensuring consistent execution of partner integrations, reporting processes, and system adoption.
• Identify and implement process improvements, recommending and rolling out changes that improve speed, quality, and scalability.
• Serve as the connective tissue between U.S. and IL teams, ensuring seamless alignment across time zones, functions, and leadership priorities.
• Lead monitoring and tracking of team objectives and KPIs, building visibility and accountability around execution.
• Support both global team and Israeli leadership with ad hoc strategic projects, executive reporting and overall team building.

Broader Support & Analytics:

• Provide structured reporting and data-driven insights to senior Partnerships executives to inform decision-making.
• Support leadership with presentations, dashboards, and cross-functional communications that highlight progress, risks, and opportunities.
• Join and document portfolio- and group-level meetings, capturing action items and ensuring follow-through.
• Evaluate and optimize usage of key information systems (Salesforce, Jira, Google Drive, etc.) to support Partnerships operations.
• Provide training, documentation, and enablement for new processes and tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in project management, business operations, or consulting.
• Proven ability to manage and deliver complex, cross-functional projects in a dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills, with experience turning data into actionable insights.
• Excellent communicator - able to translate complex topics into clear, actionable messages across audiences and geographies.
• Comfortable working without formal authority, influencing and coordinating across functions and seniority levels.
• Based in NYC, preferably fluent in Hebrew, with flexibility for early-morning calls (6:30–7:00am ET) with the Israeli team .
• Background in a fintech or global company of similar scale, with experience working with global teams (ideally from Israel) or prior work experience in Israel.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with CRM, ERP, and project management tools (Salesforce, Jira, Gong, etc).
• Experience working with product, data, or engineering teams.
• International work or study experience.

Compensation Range for New York Based Hires

$120,000 - $140,000 USD

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs with our head quarters located in NYC and Tel Aviv. We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.

Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.

Our Values

• Continuously Learn - We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals, as teams, and as an organization to deliver for our partners.
• Debate and Commit - We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide, we go all in, together.
• Dream Big and Act - We boldly tackle complex problems, pressure-test solutions in real-time, and adapt with speed and energy.
• Advance Inclusion - We create a world where everyone can win, designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees, partners and investors.
• Be Accountable Together - We proudly own our actions and our results, taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team.

More than just a job

We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That's why we're continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life.