From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.
About the role
Lighting AI is looking for a Senior Operations Specialist to sit within our centralized Operations Team. The role of the Ops team at Lightning is to enable Lightning to operate with greater velocity, efficiency, connectivity, and context. And whether operating, owning, or building, you’re putting AI at the heart of everything – agents, workflows, connections, and automation give your work leverage, speed, and sustainability.
What they're looking for
- 4+ years of experience in operations or consulting (or any high-agency, high-ownership experience that gave you a meaningful combination of both)
- Demonstrated end-to-end project ownership – from problem diagnosis and stakeholder alignment through build, launch, and adoption – with clear, self-reported metrics on impact delivered
- Track record of diagnosing problems and driving change across multiple stakeholder groups (not just making recommendations)
- Meaningful experience with third-party APIs and SaaS platforms, workflow automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n, Airflow), and AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.)
- Strong analytical thinking -- you can go from raw data to insight to action
- Prior experience in a high-growth startup environment
More about this role
Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.
Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.
We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.
The people who thrive here are builders who move fast, communicate openly, take ownership, and continuously improve themselves, their teams, and our company. Here's what that looks like in practice:
- Move with Urgency: We move quickly, make thoughtful decisions, and keep momentum. We value action over perfection and learn by shipping.
- Take Ownership: We own outcomes, not just our individual work. We make decisions that move the company...
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