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Operations Assistant portfolio brief
A simulated product & operations exercise for Operations Assistant. Treat it as realistic practice, not real client or protocol work.
6 deliverables6 tools referenced3 linked interview questions
Objective
Build a clean meeting and follow-up workflow
Expected deliverables
Meeting packAction trackerWeekly operations dashboardResearch briefCRM updateAdmin SOP
Recommended workflow
- Build a clean meeting and follow-up workflow
- Create an anonymized weekly operations dashboard
- Write explicit access and escalation boundaries
- Review the result against the rubric, then package it as a case study.
Constraints and safety
- Use only public sources or clearly simulated data.
- Never include seed phrases, private keys, or wallet secrets.
- Redact private user, company, security, legal, or compensation information.
- State every assumption you make.
Tools in practice
- Google Workspace
- Draft, review, and maintain meeting pack and action tracker, with owners, source links, and change history.
- Notion
- Draft, review, and maintain meeting pack and action tracker, with owners, source links, and change history.
- Airtable
- Maintain the operating record behind meeting pack and action tracker, including owners, dates, exceptions, and unresolved dependencies.
- calendar tools
- Coordinate meetings, deadlines, review windows, and handoffs across time zones while protecting focus time and access boundaries.
- Slack, Telegram, or Discord
- Coordinate stakeholders and capture decisions or issues that feed into meeting pack and action tracker.
- password-management workflow
- Use approved credential-sharing and access-revocation workflows; never store seed phrases or private keys.
What a strong submission shows
- A founder-support SOP
- A meeting and action system
- A weekly dashboard
- A concise research brief with sources
Weak submission patterns
- A list of tools with no workflow
- Claims of being organized without examples
- Portfolios containing confidential client data
Review rubric
- Accuracy of claims and sources
- Relevance to the target role
- Decision quality and trade-offs
- Completeness of the deliverable
- Clarity of communication
- Honest limitations and next steps
Present it as a case study
- Explain the problem, sources, decisions, ownership, constraints, output, review, and what you would change.
- Show the final artifact before the process notes.
- State what you owned and what belonged to other people.
- Label the work as simulated, and keep any real contribution clearly separate.
Interview questions this project helps you answer
How do you make async support visible without creating noise?
What would you do if asked to sign a transaction or share sensitive credentials?
How do you clarify priorities when several leaders assign urgent work?