Business Operations Jobs in Washington, D.C., USA

Looking for a business operations job in Washington, D.C.? Choose from 40 open roles at 13 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

40 Open roles
13 Companies hiring
โ€” Average salary

What do Finance, legal and operations in Washington, D.C. work on?

The roles on this page sit across three broad disciplines. Legal work includes positions such as Corporate Counsel for public-sector offerings, an Assistant General Counsel covering credit cards, a Deputy General Counsel, and a Sanctions Compliance Lead at Anthropic who manages the full sanctions programme including screening controls and regulator-facing matters. Finance roles range from program-level financial modelling and estimate-at-completion work, as in the Lead Program Finance Analyst at Shield AI, to cost accounting compliance, a controller function, and a development finance director role. Operations and analytical work includes the Staff Product Analyst at Okta who owns the Workday Payroll and Time Tracking lifecycle across global teams, as well as an SAP Federal Finance Manager and an AI Engineer focused on compliance testing at The Nuclear Company, where regulatory traceability and test automation are central. Across all these, cross-functional partnership with engineering, legal, or people teams is a recurring theme.

Skills and experience employers ask for

The skills table is drawn from mentions in posting descriptions across the full set of listings on this page, not from a list of stated requirements, and the sample is small enough that each figure reflects only a handful of postings. Python appears most frequently, followed by SQL and APIs. Cloud platforms, TypeScript, and CI/CD each appear in a minority of postings, suggesting a subset of roles have a technical component alongside the core finance or legal work.

Python 20%
Agents 10%
Evaluation 10%
SQL 10%
CI/CD 10%
APIs 10%
LLMs 8%
AWS 8%
Azure 8%
Spark 8%
TypeScript 8%
GCP 5%
Go 5%
Reinforcement learning 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.

Washington, D.C. office, hybrid or remote?

The strong majority of postings on this page are listed as onsite, meaning in-person attendance in Washington, D.C. is expected. A smaller portion are described as hybrid, where some office presence is required alongside flexibility. Only one posting is listed as fully remote. No postings have an unknown work mode, so candidates can read the arrangement directly from each listing. Whether 'onsite' means five days a week or allows any informal flexibility is not stated in the postings and should be confirmed with each employer.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Read the full posting carefully Several roles, including those in government contracting finance and nuclear compliance, carry specific regulatory or clearance requirements; confirm you meet them before applying, as these are not always visible in the summary.
  2. Prepare relevant work samples or documentation Finance roles mention modelling and reporting deliverables, and legal roles reference programme ownership; having concrete examples from prior work ready will help you respond to competency questions.
  3. Check the employer directly for pay details Only one posting on this page states a salary range, so for all others you will need to ask the employer or recruiter directly during the process.
  4. Confirm visa and sponsorship status early Sponsorship eligibility is not stated for most postings on this page; candidates who require sponsorship should ask before investing time in a lengthy application process.

Questions about Business Operations jobs in Washington, D.C.

Some postings, particularly those with defence contractors such as Shield AI, are likely to involve clearance requirements, but the fact pack does not specify which roles require one or at what level. You would need to check each individual posting.

Only one posting on this page includes an advertised range: the Legal Operations Generalist at Applied Intuition, listed at 100,000 to 160,000 USD. All other postings do not state compensation, so those figures are not available here.

Almost all postings on this page are listed as onsite or hybrid. Only one is listed as fully remote. The specific conditions of hybrid arrangements are not detailed in the postings.

There is a spread across seniority, with a meaningful number of senior and lead roles, a handful at director level, and one executive-level posting. One junior role appears in these listings. A significant portion of postings do not state seniority explicitly.

Most titles are in legal, finance, or operations, but a subset of postings mention Python, SQL, APIs, or cloud platforms. The AI Engineer role at The Nuclear Company is explicitly technical. For the majority of postings, technical skills appear to be supplementary rather than central.

Jobs checked 1 hour ago. ยท Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.