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About Borderless
Our vision is a world where borders are no longer barriers, where anyone can move anywhere, seamlessly and safely. Since launching in 2023, we’ve helped more than 500 UK businesses and thousands of individuals solve the complexity of immigration. Our digital platform streamlines and modernises the UK visa sponsorship process by blending technology and human expertise.
About Borderless
Our vision is a world where borders are no longer barriers, where anyone can move anywhere, seamlessly and safely. Since launching in 2023, we’ve helped more than 500 UK businesses and thousands of individuals solve the complexity of immigration. Our digital platform streamlines and modernises the UK visa sponsorship process by blending technology and human expertise.
Backed by Entrepreneur First and Backed.VC, we’re scaling fast.
Role: Operations Director
We’re looking for an Operations Director to lead and scale our service delivery function. As a key member our leadership team, you’ll own the end-to-end operations strategy - overseeing application processing, streamlining workflows and driving continuous improvements to ensure exceptional customer outcomes.
You’ll manage a small group of direct reports and lead a wider delivery function across immigration caseworkers, experts, customer support specialists and operations administrators. Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll work closely with Product, Engineering and Customer Success, you’ll ensure our platform delivery efficient, accurate and high quality services at scale.
️ What You’ll Be Doing
- Service Delivery: Own and continuously improve application processing - eliminating backlogs, driving down SLAs and ensuring high quality submissions
- Strategy & Vision: Define and execute a strategy for scaling Operations in line with our business growth and goals.
- Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of managers and individual contributors, fostering a high-performance, growth-oriented culture across the wider delivery function.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify inefficiencies and lead initiatives to improve workflows, tools, and service quality across the operations lifecycle.
- Operational Efficiency: Reduce application processing time through process optimisation and automation.
- Data & Reporting: Build and maintain dashboards that surface key metrics, identify bottlenecks, and support data-driven decisions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to continuously improve the internal user and external customer experience.
- You have 6–10+ years of experience in operations, ideally in a tech or tech-enabled service environment.
- You’ve managed and scaled large teams, and know how to lead both strategically and in the day-to-day.
- You’re a systems thinker, always looking to improve processes and build for scale.
- You’re hands-on, move quickly, and hold yourself and others to an exceptional standard.
- You’re comfortable working in ambiguity and building operational structures from the ground up.
- You’re resilient and creative, energised by fast-moving environments where you need to solve problems quickly.
- You’re data-driven and confident working with spreadsheets, dashboards, and analytics tools.
- You’ve worked closely with product and engineering teams, and know how to build or influence internal tools and workflows.
- 30 min screening call with the Talent Team
- 45 min interview with our Co-founder & CTO
- Take Home Task (details shared during process)
- Final onsite with Founders, Product Lead, and CS Lead
Culture & Work Setup
3 days in-office (Mon/Tue/Thu), 2 days remote
Monthly in-office lunches
Monthly team socials
️ Annual offsite (last one: Lisbon, this year: Majorca!)
Time Off & Flexibility
️ 25 days holiday + 3 extra days between 25th Dec and 31st Jan
1-week per year work-from-anywhere policy
Growth & Development
£500 annual L&D budget
6-month performance reviews and promotion cycles
Wellbeing & Equipment
Laptop + peripherals
Cycle to Work scheme
Smart Pension
Mental health support via Spill
Gym in Shoreditch Exchange
️ Onsite Barista
Seniority level
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
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Technology, Information and Internet
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