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Lovable team,
I'm Amanda Schwartz Ramirez, and I've applied for your Head of Strategic Ops role. My entire career has been spent building teams, functions, and systems around software. Because of Lovable, I'm now building software, and my mind is exploding.
I've been happily unhireable for four years, but I'm entirely obsessed with throwing it all away to join you on this mission. This is the one and only role I'm going after, and I'd fly to Stockholm tomorrow to talk to you about it.
The shape of what I do: parachute into the hardest, most ambiguous problems in a company (functional gaps and global expansion are two I'm well-versed in), quickly collaborate toward a workable solution, and then work myself out of the picture.
I built this page to share why I'm right for this role.
15 years of compounding slope.
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My founder story: from exec to solopreneur
I founded Garden Labs in 2022 as my solo strategy and ops practice. I matched my prior exec salary in year one and doubled it in year two. Founders, CEOs, and COOs pull me in when complexity and demand are outpacing their operating model. For most projects, I diagnose root cause, build the solution, and work myself out of a job. Recent projects:
- Function-building: supported 0→1 and 1→10 for a new Enterprise GTM unit, incl: market development, growth operations, and forward-deployed engineering.
- Defined enterprise GTM and forward-deployed eng process: in-depth process development across BD, Eng, Product, and Enterprise teams.
- E2E strategy & ops for stablecoin ecosystem efforts, including planning and day-to-day management of builder-focused partnerships, campaigns, and programs.
- Special projects on-demand for the Crypto BU, from problem statement to validated and fully operational solution.
- Direct advisory and consulting with CEO, COO, and CPO on market research, customer development, and partner development.
- Embedded with the cross-functional team to manage the OKR process.
- Advisory support to hire a CFO and clean up finance.
- Hands-on support to secure a bank partnership.
- Hands-on support to rebuild financial models.
- Developed custom Generative AI training and delivered it to a room of 40 portfolio-co CEOs and management teams.
- Developed and facilitated the annual offsite for the Research Lab leadership team.
- Follow-on 1:1 coaching for key team members.
- Direct advisory to CEO and management team on strategic ops, including support to hire and onboard a COO.
- Advisory Board member.
What I've built in the last 30 days.
I run my entire solo-advisory practice (and my household) on a blend of personal judgment and agentic workflows. Here are things I've built in the last 30 days:
- 01LovableDrop-In Advisory Booking Page↗
Replaced Calendly with a custom booking experience and layered in AI-assisted intake and prep workflows. Live at amandasr.com.
- 02OpenClaw · Claude Code · Vercel · TelegramGrocery Shopping App
Chat-bot for my family to collaborate on our endless shopping needs across the dozens of stores we hit. Wishlist, shopping list, and price-tracking baked in.
- 03CoworkHome Designer App
Chat-based, context-rich interior design assistant that knows our home, our taste, and what we've already bought.
Daily research feeds for dozens of areas of concern or interest, scoped to the companies I work with.
My thoughts on operations.
The through-line: how to build operating practices that survive contact with growth.
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Happy to jump on a plane and meet the team in person. Name a week and I'll be there. Based in the US; regularly in SF.
The fastest way to reach me:
- Email: amanda@gardenlabs.xyz
- LinkedIn: /in/amandamschwartz