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Operations Lead

River AI · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

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About River AI

Develop frontier language models and agents. Training, reinforcement learning, and inference in one system, on River Cloud or your own GPU cluster. Backed by General Catalyst.

About the role

At River AI, we are building an entirely new kind of AI company. As we move quickly across research, engineering, product, hardware, legal, security, HR, and go-to-market, we need people who can help the company move with clarity, speed, and fluidity.

What they're looking for

  • Significant experience in operations, strategy, program management, chief of staff, consulting, or a similarly high-ownership role
  • Experience operating in a fast-paced startup or high-growth technology environment
  • Exceptional problem-solving and judgment, with the ability to quickly assess a situation and determine a practical path forward
  • Comfortable with significant ambiguity and able to create structure where none exists
  • Strong cross-functional instincts and the ability to build relationships and alignment across teams
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear decisions and actions
More about this role

At River AI, we are building an entirely new kind of AI company. As we move quickly across research, engineering, product, hardware, legal, security, HR, and go-to-market, we need people who can help the company move with clarity, speed, and fluidity.

We are looking for a high-agency, highly versatile problem solver to work closely with all functions on River’s most important operational challenges. You will identify what matters, bring structure to ambiguity, drive alignment, and keep critical work flowing from idea to execution.

This is not a traditional operations role. You will operate across functions and levels, removing friction and creating connectivity so that information, decisions, and workflow where they need to go.

The work will evolve with the company. You should be equally comfortable shaping a strategy, untangling a complex problem, building a new operating rhythm, or rolling up your sleeves to get something across the finish line.

At River AI, our mission is to create personal AI owned and shaped by each individual. To achieve this, we are building the full stack required for people and organizations to create AI models of their own - from training infrastructure...

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