SEAL: Strategy, Execution, and Applied Leadership
Don't Apply If...
You need a calm sea. SEALs don't get calm seas. You'll be dropped into the hardest problems in the company with incomplete information, no manual, and a deadline. If turbulence makes you hesitate, don't apply.
You wait for orders. By the time someone tells you what needs doing, it's already late. You should be identifying the problem, framing the solution, and halfway through execution before most people have opened their laptop. If you need a manager to point the way, don't apply.
You think "ops" means keeping the lights on. This isn't maintenance. This is offense. Operations here means tearing apart broken systems, rebuilding them faster, and moving on before anyone noticed they were broken. If you're a caretaker, don't apply.
You can't go deep and wide at the same time. You'll be asked to master the detail of a database migration on Monday and present the commercial implications to the CEO on Wednesday. Context-switching isn't a skill here, it's the job. If you only work in one gear, don't apply.
You collapse under ambiguity. There's no spec. There's rarely a brief. There's a problem, a deadline, and you. You should be energised by that, not paralysed. If you need clarity before you can move, don't apply.
You can't ship. Strategy that lives in decks is just expensive fiction. You should be able to take an idea from whiteboard to working system without asking for permission at every step. If you're a thinker who doesn't execute, don't apply.
You protect your bandwidth. When something critical breaks at 11pm, you'll know about it because you were already watching. This isn't about working long hours for the sake of it. It's about caring enough to stay in the fight when it matters. If you clock-out mentally, don't apply.
You think data and instinct are enemies. The best operators use data to sharpen their instincts, not replace them. You should be able to build the model and know when to ignore it. If you're a quant who can't make a judgment call, or a gut-feeler who can't back it up, don't apply.
You're precious about your domain. You'll parachute into engineering, finance, product, growth, customer, legal, sometimes in the same week. You don't own a lane. You go where the problem is. If you need a clean org chart to feel comfortable, don't apply.
You take the obvious path. The obvious solution is the one everyone else would have tried. If your first instinct is to do what's been done before, don't apply.
You can't hold people without authority. You'll be coordinating across teams where you have zero formal power. You move things through clarity, trust, and momentum, not hierarchy. If you need a title to get things done, don't apply.
You confuse motion with progress. Busy is not a strategy. You should be able to distinguish between activity and impact, and ruthlessly cut the former when it crowds out the latter. If your default response to pressure is to do more things, don't apply.
You can't work Irish hours. We're remote first and location agnostic. But be prepared to be available during Irish working hours.
You're "normal." Diversity matters. We embrace different in all senses of the word. So if you would describe yourself as normal, don't apply.
You take yourself too seriously. At TSKR, we enjoy the craic. If you are boring, don't apply.
Still Here?
Good. Because here's what we actually mean by all of the above.
Most companies hire operators to manage what exists. We're hiring someone to figure out what should exist and then make it real.
The Navy SEALs have a concept: the only easy day was yesterday. Not because they celebrate suffering, but because every day you show up, the mission is harder than the one before. That's not a warning. For the right person, it's the pitch.
This role sits at the intersection of strategy and reality. You'll work directly with leadership on the problems that don't have a home anywhere else — the ones that are too cross-functional for a single team to own, too urgent for a slow process, and too important to get wrong.
You'll design systems that scale. You'll find the constraint that's quietly choking growth and remove it before anyone else has named it. You'll lead projects end to end — not to the point of handoff, but to the point of impact.
You won't have a fixed remit. You'll have a mission.
What you'll actually do:
- Identify the highest-leverage problems in the business and own their resolution
- Build and optimise scalable processes that keep pace with aggressive growth
- Lead strategic projects from zero to shipped, acting as a direct point of contact for the CEO, CFO, and CPO
- Analyse complex operational and commercial data to surface decisions, not just observations
- Define what the team should prioritise, set a timeline, and hold the line on it
- Improve product and customer experience from the inside out — not just what's asked, but what's needed
What this actually requires:
- Exceptional analytical ability, you can build the model, read the output, and know what it means
- A bias for action that doesn't sacrifice rigour
- The ability to communicate with precision across every level of the organisation
- Technical literacy, you don't need to write the code, but you need to know what you're asking for
- Genuine curiosity about every part of the business
- An interest in fintech and the problems we're solving
A Note on Inclusion
The tone is intentional, it filters for mindset, not background.
We know the industry has a diversity problem. This post is meant to attract serious operators from all backgrounds who are built for this kind of work.
If you're someone who has always found a way to get things done — regardless of what tools, resources, or support you had — this role was written for you. Confidence isn't the same as competence. If you have the latter, apply.
How to Apply
Don't send us a CV and a cover letter telling us you're a "strategic, data-driven operator with a passion for impact."
Show us a problem you diagnosed, the solution you built, and the outcome you created. It doesn't have to be polished. It has to be real.
Tell us what you'd do in the first 90 days if the most important system in the company was quietly failing and nobody had noticed yet.
Show us how you think. That's it.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.