Business Operations Jobs in Palo Alto, USA

Looking for a business operations job in Palo Alto? Choose from 21 open roles at 12 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

21 Open roles
12 Companies hiring
โ€” Average salary

What do Finance, legal and operations in Palo Alto work on?

The titles span a wide band from support-level through executive: paralegal and legal operations coordinator work sits alongside general counsel and chief of staff positions, while the finance side covers FP&A, strategic finance, and full finance-leadership mandates.

A few roles carry a distinctly technical edge. The AI and Agentic AI Risk Management Senior Specialist at Nubank centres on building risk frameworks and validating generative and agentic AI systems, requiring hands-on ML experience alongside governance skills. The Head of Finance at Pika is a broad finance-leadership post covering accounting, FP&A, fundraising, and executive reporting for a venture-backed AI company. The Legal Operations Specialist at Palantir focuses on workflow management and process improvement within a legal team, coordinating approvals and documentation rather than practising law directly.

Several titles reference energy and infrastructure counsel, product counsel, and corporate counsel, reflecting the varied industries of the employers on this page.

Skills and experience employers ask for

The skills table draws on descriptions across all postings in this sample, so mentions reflect stated preferences rather than hard requirements. Evaluation and Python appear in the largest share of postings, driven largely by the more technical risk and operations roles. LLMs, SQL, statistics, agents, and GPUs each appear in a minority. Most legal and traditional finance postings mention none of these technical skills, so the table reflects a split sample rather than a uniform skill profile.

Evaluation 24%
Python 19%
LLMs 14%
Agents 10%
GPUs 10%
SQL 10%
Statistics 10%
PhD 10%
RAG 5%
Prompt engineering 5%
AWS 5%
GCP 5%
Azure 5%
TypeScript 5%

Business Operations roles that state a salary

The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels โ€” not an average and not a market rate.

Palo Alto office, hybrid or remote?

All postings on this page state either onsite or hybrid; none are listed as remote. The majority require full onsite attendance, with a significant share offering hybrid arrangements. Because individual hybrid schedules are not detailed in most postings, the precise number of in-office days is not stated for most roles. Candidates should treat all of these as requiring regular presence in or near Palo Alto unless a specific posting says otherwise.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Review seniority and mode Most postings do not state a seniority level explicitly, and all require some onsite presence, so confirm both before applying to avoid mismatches on either front.
  2. Check pay transparency early Only two postings on this page advertise a salary range; for the remainder, compensation is not stated, so you may need to ask about pay during the process.
  3. Match your technical depth Some postings, particularly in risk and compliance, list Python, SQL, and LLM experience in their descriptions; legal and finance postings rarely do, so tailor your application materials to the specific role rather than the group.
  4. Follow each employer's process Employers on this page include both large organisations and early-stage companies, and application routes are not uniform; use the apply link on each individual job posting rather than contacting employers directly.

Questions about Business Operations jobs in Palo Alto

No. Every posting on this page is listed as either onsite or hybrid; none are marked remote.

Only two postings advertise a range: the Head of Finance role at Pika lists 180,000โ€“250,000, and a Security Engineer, Compliance Focus role lists 100,000โ€“125,000. The remaining postings do not state pay, so those figures cannot be compared across the full set.

It depends on the specific posting. Roles in risk management and compliance engineering mention skills such as Python, SQL, and LLM frameworks in their descriptions. Legal and finance leadership roles on this page generally do not.

A PhD is mentioned in descriptions for two of the postings in this sample. It is not stated as a requirement or preference across the group as a whole.

The employers listed in these postings include xAI, Palantir, Arc Institute, Turing, HeyGen, Workato, Nubank, BridgeBio Pharma, Pika, and Volta, among others. Posting counts vary by employer.

Jobs checked 1 hour ago. ยท Guide reviewed 14 September 2026.