# Founding Operations Lead at Elayne

- Company: Elayne (YC S24)
- What the company does: Estate settlement, from verified discovery to distribution. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.elayne.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elayne/jobs/brdrVdJ-founding-operations-lead
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/elayne-founding-operations-lead/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Founding Operations Lead to build the connective tissue between our families, our product, and how Elayne operates. At our stage, some of the most important things Elayne will eventually do in software still happen because a smart person figures them out manually. A family hits an edge case, an institution gives us a different answer than expected, a court rejects a filing. The process that worked ten times breaks on the eleventh.

## What they're looking for

- You’ve built from zero to one. You’ve worked at an early-stage company where important things were undefined, personally owned messy problems, and created structure instead of waiting for it
- You’re an unusually strong operator. You can take a messy problem with incomplete or conflicting information, figure out what is actually happening, and drive it to resolution
- You think in systems . When something happens repeatedly, your instinct is to find the pattern, define the decision points, measure it, and make the process better
- You’re product-minded without needing to be the product manager. You can translate operational reality into clear requirements, distinguish what should stay human from what software should absorb, and work exceptionally well with product and engineering
- You have judgment and warmth . You can earn trust from someone dealing with grief, money, family dynamics, or bureaucracy without losing clarity, boundaries, or speed
- No work is beneath you. You’re as comfortable calling an institution, investigating a strange edge case, or fixing a broken workflow as you are designing the system that eventually replaces that work

Tags: Operations