Outpost Technologies · London
Manufacturing & OperationsOperationsFullTimeposted 2mo ago
Global expansion is broken. Without a local entity, conversion rates fall, costs rise, and compliance gets messy. Outpost fixes it.
Selling internationally is a maze of tax, payments, and operational friction. Most brands avoid it or expand slowly and expensively.
Outpost is your modular back office for global commerce. Pick only what you need (tax, payments, treasury, or operations) and unlock new markets without the overhead. Sometimes we act as Merchant of Record, taking on tax and compliance risk. Other times, we give you the tools to do it yourself.
Sell anything, anywhere. Without compromise.
At Outpost, Operations means problem-solving at scale. We tackle the company's toughest challenges with speed, precision, and creativity. We design systems that unlock efficiency and power global growth.
We're looking for a junior generalist to work inside that engine. You'll be attached to real initiatives across the business - product, onboarding, market launches, finance, GTM - and you'll own concrete pieces of them end to end. Not shadowing, not note-taking: workstreams with your name on them, from day one.
This is a generalist role. You'll value breadth over depth. One week you're cleaning and modelling market data, the next you're running the checklist for a country launch, the week after you're sitting in merchant calls and turning what you heard into a product requirement. If you want to stay in one lane, this isn't for you.
You'll work directly with the founding team. If you're hungry, you'll compress years of learning into months. Most people wait a decade for this proximity. You'll have it in week one.
Product
Sit close to merchants and the market, and feed what you learn back into the product roadmap
Help scope features: gather the pain points, size the opportunity, write the first draft of the spec
Track product performance and competitive positioning, and keep the team honest with numbers
Operations & GTM
Run and improve processes across onboarding, compliance, and merchant operations
Support new market launches: own the checklist of legal, tax, payments, and operational steps and drive it to done
Join customer conversations, prepare the materials, chase the follow-ups that keep deals moving
Write the playbooks and documentation that let us scale without adding headcount
Finance & Strategy
Build and maintain the models behind unit economics, pricing, and market planning
Keep KPI tracking and reporting clean, current, and trusted
Support the prep for investor updates and board materials
Build the first-draft financial model for a new market entry: entity costs, tax rates, payback period
Run a merchant through onboarding end to end, document every friction point, and propose the fix
Turn our EU VAT compliance steps into a playbook anyone on the team can execute
Track and analyse competitive positioning against other MoR platforms, and keep the battle card current
Debug a delayed payout across engineering, ops, and compliance, and write up the fix so it never happens twice
Take a manual weekly process, automate it with scripts or no-code, and retire it
Ideal background:
0-2 years of experience, or exceptional straight out of university
Internships or a first role in high-growth fintech or tech, consulting, banking, or a startup of any kind
STEM or quantitative degree preferred, but not required if you can demonstrate analytical horsepower
Evidence you've built, run, or fixed something real: a project, a business, a system, an analysis
Signals we care about:
Ridiculous bias for action: you solve, not observe
Analytically strong: comfortable in a spreadsheet, curious about SQL, allergic to unquantified claims
AI-native by instinct: you reach for Claude, scripts, and no-code to do in an hour what takes a day, and you can tell good output from plausible rubbish
Precise: in this business a mistake can go to a regulator or a merchant. You check your work before anyone asks
Strong EQ: you know how to read a room, a customer, or a blocker
Exceptionally hard working: you see work as a core part of your purpose
Fluent in ambiguity and chaos: startups are not neat, this will be hard
Curious and resourceful: you can figure anything out
Clear, quantified achievements on your CV (not vague descriptions)
What this role is not:
Not an internship where you watch: you'll carry real workstreams with real deadlines
Not a single-function track: you won't specialise in year one, by design
Not for someone who needs defined processes and hierarchy to be effective. You'll often be building the process
Most junior roles teach you one function inside a machine someone else built. This one puts you inside the room where the machine is being built, across every part of the business: product, finance, GTM, operations.
You'll work directly with a founding team that has done this at scale before. You'll ship things that matter in your first month. And the ceiling is real: we expect whoever takes this role to grow fast, and we'll back you every step of the way.
Ability to own your work and move fast
World-class training from operators who've scaled globally
A global mission with real impact
Low politics, high output
A culture of builders, not talkers
We work together in person in London. We believe the hardest problems are solved in the room.
No cover letter. Send us: (1) something you built, with a link; (2) one line on which of the six areas you'd automate first, and how; (3) bonus - pull a public dataset or feed and send a one-screen dashboard.
Outpost is where the hard problems are. If you want to help build the engine behind global trade, we'd love to hear from you.