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Program Lead

Reka AI · San Francisco, CA, USA · On-site

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About Reka AI

Reka AI builds natively multimodal models (Spark, Edge, Flash, Core) for video, image, audio, and text. Used by enterprises in security, media, and defense.

About the role

Turn an open-ended research need into a program with a scope, a standard, a timeline and agreed economics — then own the number Work directly with frontier labs and robotics teams: turn a research problem into something deliverable, keep sophisticated buyers confident, and own the relationship from first call to delivery

What they're looking for

  • Early-stage marketplace operating experience — required. You have had to get a flywheel turning from a standing start, in a new territory or a new vertical, where neither side existed yet and you had to build both. Every engagement here is that problem again
  • AI-native — required. You spend more time with agents than with people, you automate a process before you staff it, and your answer to more volume is a better system rather than more headcount
  • You have operated, not only advised. Former founders, high growth early stage startup hires, consulting, or business operations background is a strong plus and exactly the rigour we want
  • Structured problem solving under pressure: first principles, then a plan a client and a team can both act on
  • Numerate — you build the model, find where the economics break, and argue for the change
  • Credible with a research lead and with a shift supervisor alike
More about this role

Text has run out. The physical world — where skill lives — has never been recorded in a form a model can learn from. Claru is building that layer.

We sell data to frontier labs and robotics companies: zero to seven figures of ARR in under six months, with a team of five. It is a two-sided marketplace: labs arrive with a research problem and a budget, not a specification; contributors and partner businesses capture the work they already do, paid per approved unit. Both sides get built engagement by engagement. That is this job.

We are hiring a Program Lead and are looking for operators who are AI-native: more time with agents than with people, automation before hiring, systems that scale rather than teams that grow. That is how a team this small outruns much bigger companies. You need to be someone who can be dropped into an unfamiliar problem, with a client waiting, and come back with a plan that holds.

Turn an open-ended research need into a program with a scope, a standard, a timeline and agreed economics — then own the number

Work directly with frontier labs and robotics teams: turn a research problem into something deliverable, keep sophisticated buyers confident, and own the...

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