Odin is a venture capital operations platform for angel syndicates, fund managers, and founders. It helps users create and manage special purpose vehicles (SPVs), coordinate investor communications, organize legal and tax documentation, and deploy capital online. The platform also supports cap table management and investor roll-ups to simplify governance. Odin operates under Talbot Capital Limited and serves global transactions in EUR, GBP, and USD within its finance, legal, and consulting focus.
Operations Engineer — London Hybrid
Build automation, AI agents, and scalable systems for Odin’s private-market investment infrastructure. Improve fund administration and financial operations across a growing platform.
Description
- Map operational processes, including edge cases, manual tasks, and bottlenecks
- Redesign operational workflows and create more effective ways to complete the work
- Convert manual processes into tools, automations, and scalable systems
- Work independently and at pace, often developing practical solutions before dedicated product or engineering support is involved
- Connect operations with engineering by selecting the right approach, from process changes and automation to lightweight builds and deeper engineering
- Prepare well-understood, simplified, and validated problems for Product, Design, and Engineering
- Question unnecessary processes and requests, removing workflows without a clear purpose
- Develop AI agents to automate operational tasks
- Partner closely with operations colleagues, founders, Product, and the broader operations team
- Automate infrastructure for private investment firms, including fund administration and financial operations
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to build practical solutions without budget or engineering support, using no-code tools, scripts, spreadsheets, or vibe-coded applications
- Comfort with financial mechanics and strong mental arithmetic skills
- Ability to automate numerical processes such as carry, allocations, fee calculations, and distributions
- Exceptional attention to detail and organization, with the ability to understand systems end to end, close loops, follow up, and drive execution
- A first-principles approach to processes and systems
- Strong product judgment and the ability to distinguish between process improvements, automation, lightweight builds, and deeper engineering
- Experience in regulated financial services is a major advantage, including fund administration, custody, payments, brokerage, audit, tax, or other back-office functions
- SQL, advanced Excel skills, and experience transferring data between systems are advantageous
- Several years of professional experience with demonstrated automation or AI-building work is welcomed
- Willingness to operate directly rather than manage
- Availability to work at least three days per week from the London office
- No specific educational credential is stated
Benefits
- Private health insurance through Vitality
- Paid sick leave, including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments
- Access to Spill mental health support
- £1,000 annual allowance for health, therapy, or fitness
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity, and partner leave
- 4% employer pension contribution with salary sacrifice options
- 25 days of annual leave
- Two wellness days
- Flexible bank holidays, providing 33 days in total
- Up to six weeks per year working from anywhere globally
- An additional day of birthday leave
- Meaningful equity grant
- Flexible combination of cash and equity