# Business Operations at Exa

- Company: Exa
- What the company does: Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free. Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://exa.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $190K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/exa/0e3957bf-3dd1-4a5a-828c-5c06a8499c93
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exa-business-operations/

## About the role

Put AI to work inside Exa — Find work that people are doing and AI should be. Build AI workflows and internal tooling that eliminate manual steps across finance and ops, and become the person the team comes to for what's worth automating and how. Support FinOps and cost discipline — Help us understand and control what we spend. Track infrastructure and vendor costs, pull analysis that shows where the money is going, flag what looks off, and support the work to bring it down.

## What they're looking for

- 3-6 years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, accounting, strategic finance, or business operations at a high-growth technology company
- Genuinely AI-native — you already use LLMs and agents as leverage in your daily work and have built things with them
- A builder's instinct for process — when something breaks twice, you redesign it. When a task takes four hours every week, you make it run itself
- Comfort with data — you can pull your own numbers, work confidently in spreadsheets, and don't need someone else to answer a question for you
- Extremely high attention to detail — this role touches money moving in and out of the company. Small errors are expensive
- High ownership and high tolerance for ambiguity — you take things from vague to done without being managed through it, and you're comfortable switching contexts several times a day

Tags: Operations