This is a unique and dynamic role at the heart of Develeap's business. We're looking for a Business Operations Manager & Team Lead to own the connection between our talents, our clients, and our business goals. This role sits at the intersection of HR, Sales, Delivery, and Marketing - managing the full lifecycle of talent transitions and staffing decisions, while bringing structure, transparency, and momentum to a fast-moving environment.
Core Responsibilities
• Own the end-to-end journey of employees between projects — from project completion through interview readiness to successful placement in their next role.
• Coordinate onboarding of new team members with team leads, group leads, and HR, ensuring a smooth and well-informed integration.
• Balance employee needs with business needs — understanding individual goals, managing expectations, and building tailored solutions.
• Guide employees through organizational shifts (including adapting to AI-driven changes) by identifying gaps and translating change into practical support.
• Assess technical skills and personal strengths to find the best match between employees and client opportunities.
• Make staffing recommendations to leadership and Sales by weighing professional skills, soft skills, availability, business risk, and client constraints.
• Provide hands-on support during transition periods: interview prep, feedback, coaching, and ongoing check-ins.
• Track professional development, certifications, personal projects, and skill gaps across the team.
Room to Grow
What you'll do
End-to-end tracking of business opportunities, from open to close, with an eye for bottlenecks and dependencies.
Acting as a connective hub across HR, Sales, Delivery, and Marketing — translating leadership decisions into operational plans and driving alignment across stakeholders.
Smooth, well-managed employee transitions with minimal unnecessary bench time.
Faster, better-informed staffing decisions that balance employee, client, and business needs.
Clear visibility across HR, Sales, and Delivery into availability, readiness, risks, and next steps.
Employees who are prepared, supported, and successfully placed in roles where they can perform and grow.
Bottlenecks identified before they become business problems.
Repeatable processes that bring structure, accountability, and momentum to staffing and business operations.
Requirements
What You Bring • Experience leading complex, cross-functional processes, or in project/process management. • Technical familiarity with DevOps or general development environments — a strong plus. • Business acumen and comfort making decisions under uncertainty. • Experience managing multiple stakeholders and driving action without formal authority. • Details-oriented, with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel. • Openness to learning technical concepts at a high level.Proactive, independent, and able to own initiatives end-to-end. • Excellent interpersonal communication, with genuine care for both the role and the people involved.