- Location: Remote (UK/EU time zones) with quarterly in-person meet ups (UK)
- Type: Full-time
- Start: ASAP
- Comp: Competitive salary + options (depending on role/scope)
- Hiring for: Foundational operations and go-to-market expert.
About Ossprey
- Ossprey is a UK based cybersecurity company building real time protection against malicious activity in open source software and software supply chains. We have recently closed our pre seed round, with an announcement coming soon, and we are moving from closed beta to public launch.
- With a closed beta already in place, we are scaling the team to build the team, platform and customer base.
Meet the Founders
Where did we begin?
- In 2021, a major compromise in the NPM package UAParser affected tens of thousands of users, from individual developers to large organisations including financial services and Facebook.
- We were asked to look at the problem and work out how to stop it happening again. The conclusion was clear. It is too difficult for a single company to solve alone, and there were no viable commercial options.
- By 2023, these attacks were becoming more frequent. We revisited the problem and reached the same conclusion, while the risks continued to grow.
- So we decided to build the solution ourselves. In early 2025, we started Ossprey to tackle the problem properly and make open source supply chain protection practical for everyday engineering teams.
- Our team has decades of cybersecurity experience. One of our biggest frustrations with the industry is how often security products improve security at the cost of employee productivity. We take an engineering first approach.
- We believe it is possible to make engineers more productive and more secure at the same time, and that is what we are building at Ossprey.
Why are you called Ossprey?
- We chose Ossprey as we are protecting Open Source Software from being preyed upon. Hence Ossprey Security (we love a pun).
- Our CEO is also an avid bird watcher.
Why Join Now
- This is a true founding employee opportunity: you’ll shape the company and culture at the moment it matters most.
- Real momentum, early enough to matter: we have funding, an MVP, and customers waiting to use the product. You’ll help take this to public release and beyond.
- High-leverage problems: analysis pipelines, detection quality, explainability, and performance/cost trade-offs at scale.
- Security with taste: we care about signal over noise and building a product customers trust (not just a scanner that generates alerts).
- Ownership and impact: you’ll run meaningful parts of the roadmap end-to-end and see your work land with users quickly.
Why We're Hiring
We're a founding team of two. We've built the product and closed the funding. Now we need to scale, and scaling requires operational foundations.
This is our first dedicated operations hire. You'll own the systems, processes, and coordination that let everyone else move faster. As we grow from 3 to 8 people over the next year, the foundations you build now will determine how well we scale.
What We’re Looking For
We hire for ability and judgement over specific skills. If you learn quickly, take ownership, and can drive ambiguous problems through to completion, you will thrive here.
- Strong ownership: You take large problems, define the plan, and deliver end-to-end.
- Systems thinking: you build simple processes that scale, and you know when process is the wrong answer.
- Remote-first mindset: Strong written communication, documentation habits, and proactive knowledge sharing.
- Customer empathy: Comfortable engaging with customers and partners to unblock delivery, capture feedback, and close the loop internally.
- Discretion: You handle sensitive people and company information appropriately.
- Commercial Judgement: you can negotiate vendors, manage spend and spot risk.
- Technical curiosity: You're comfortable with AI tools and willing to build, even if you haven't tried in the past.
Roles and Responsibilities
This is an Operations Lead role. This role owns day to day operations and will build the foundations for ops as we scale. You will be trusted to make decisions and work directly with the leadership team
As an early stage startup, the work will be varied and you will have the opportunity to get involved in all parts of the startup. Work will vary from day-to-day but you will have key ownership stakes in a number of large projects.
Example responsibilities include:
- Marketing and Comms: Coordinate agencies, manage event logistics, track outcomes
- Community and PLG ops: Partnerships, community programs, measurement, playbooks
- Vendor lifecycle: Tool selection, security checks, procurement, renewals, cost control
- Customer Ops: Onboarding coordination, feedback capture, usage and engagement reporting, follow up loops
- Process Improvement: Document critical workflows, automate repetitive steps, reduce interruptions, keep a lightweight operating cadence
- Hiring Ops: Onboarding, offboarding, JML
- Internal Tooling: Help to coordinate, socialise, and maintain internally developed tooling across the organisation
You will NOT be responsible for:
- Product management.
- Financial management beyond operations and coordination with accountants.
- HR strategy or People disputes (your HR responsibilities start and end with onboarding).
Work Setup
Remote-first with UK office hours and flexible working. Quarterly in-person meetups and occasional UK travel for workshops and team events. Customers site visits may be required in the future.
First 90 Days
These expectations are aggressive. Some you'll help define once you're onboard.
- Map current processes and pain points. Identify and mature top issues impacting the team.
- Help roll out our new branding and marketing.
- Stand up onboarding and offboarding checklists and run the next hire onboarding end-to-end.
- Support the closed beta to public release by coordinating comms, customer onboarding, and internal readiness.
- Plan GTM strategies for PLG and Enterprise engagement.
- Refine and socialise Ossprey's value propositions to be in line with the latest market dynamics.
Interview Process
Our interview process is designed to be lightweight, practical, and consistent with how we work (high-trust, high-ownership). Minimal prep required.
- Role + startup reality check (founder call)
A conversational interview covering what you’re looking for, what we need, how we work, and what “early-stage” really means day-to-day (pace, ambiguity, ownership, trade-offs). - Background interview (experience + judgement)
We’ll dig into your background, strengths, and growth areas. Expect discussion-based problem solving and trade-off thinking. - Offline product session (hands-on + written feedback)
You’ll use Ossprey and write some notes on the product and how we can improve it. Afterwards we will go through your thinking and discuss your suggestions. You will use this session to showcase how you think and communicate: what you tried, what you noticed, what you’d improve, and any questions or hypotheses you’d want to test. We expect this to take no more than 90 minutes, (45 minutes reviewing Ossprey, 30 minutes discussing it) - Culture interview
Culture interview A wrap-up conversation focused on collaboration style, values, and how you like to work. This is also where we align on expectations, scope, and next steps.
Our Values
Keep it simple
- What's the most important thing right now?
- What's its simplest solution?
- What's the simplest description?
Complexity kills startups. As we grow, we protect speed and quality by keeping our product, processes, and communication as simple and clear as we can, while remaining secure, reliable, and easy to adopt.
Do the right thing
- Be respectful and compassionate
- Take accountability
- Speak up
Work with compassion, fairness, and integrity even when it's inconvenient. We act like adults: direct, honest, accountable, and respectful. Security companies live or die on trust - we are honest about what we know, what we don't, and what the risks are. We build a company we can be proud of.
Solve real problems
- Solve the root cause, not symptoms
- Provide real value
- Work hard to do this
We win by focusing relentlessly on real customer problems and validating that we're solving them. We prioritize outcomes over activity, and we take outcomes seriously. We aim for consistently high performance - quality matters, even when moving fast.
Win together
- How do we set each other up to succeed?
- Are we creating lift or drag for the team?
- Have we shared context, not just tasks?
We succeed as a team or not at all. We share context early, give each other ownership, and level each other up. Great teams are built on trust, transparency, and shared accountability. We invest in each other's growth and help each other perform at our best.
Clarity
- Are we being clear about what we know, what we don't, and what we expect?
- Have we made the implicit explicit?
- Would someone new understand this immediately?
Ambiguity creates risk - in security products and in teams. We communicate with precision and transparency, internally and externally. We make expectations, decisions, priorities, and uncertainties explicit so everyone can act with confidence.
How to apply
Please reach out to hiring@ossprey.com with a copy of your CV, or reach out on LinkedIn.
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