I'm the operator you wrote that job for.
Michael Van der Vloedt. Ten years making product teams run, then making them run better. Tool-agnostic, automation-obsessed, and seriously fired up about what Warren is building.
Your job post reads like my CV.
You wrote that you want the person who spots what is breaking before it breaks, and fixes it before anyone notices. That has been my actual job for ten years. Here is the overlap, pillar by pillar.
Three pillars. I land on all three.
Process excellence & automation
This is where I live. I map processes end to end, cut the manual steps, and build the automation that takes repetitive work off people's plates. Lately that means AI-native, agentic workflows: I wire tools like Jira, Confluence and Productive into one assistant that handles reporting, forecasting and the admin nobody wants to touch.
Company operations
I have owned the unglamorous backbone end to end as co-founder of Move Beyond: vendor coordination, scheduling, bookings and finances. I am the person who documents how things are done, then makes them repeatable so they survive without me.
The go-to fixer
You want the person the whole team relies on when something operational is not working. I already am that person on every team I lead. When it breaks, people come to me, and I am the one who fixes it.
Automation isn't a threat to me. It's my superpower.
You said you want someone who sees automation as a superpower, not a threat. I do not just use AI tools, I build with them. Tool-agnostic: connect me via MCP and I will wire your stack into something that runs with far less hands-on work.
I built Move Beyond's entire content, website and marketing with AI, from copy to visuals. For a fintech scaling as fast as Warren, that is leverage that compounds fast at your stage.
Let me be straight with you.
My titles read senior. This is an associate role.
That is on purpose. I want to be hands-on, building the operational foundation of something that matters, not managing it from a distance. Early-stage and execution-heavy is exactly where I want to be.
I have not worked inside a regulated pension fund.
The domain is new to me. But process, tooling, reconciliation logic and a refusal to let details slip all travel, and I pick things up fast. You said you value execution over politics. So do I.
The mission actually lands for me.
I read up on finance and investing in my own time, building toward my own financial independence. Warren is doing exactly that at scale, for a whole working population. Outside work you will find me racing Hyrox three or four times a year. The discipline and the routine carry straight into how I operate.
Let's build the financially fearless generation together.
Two pages of proof are one click away. I'm applying for the Operations Associate seat. If a better-shaped role surfaces for me as you grow, even better. If it feels right to you, let's make it official.