# Operations Lead at River AI

- Company: River AI
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://river.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $380K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/riverai/jobs/4414212009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/river-ai-operations-lead/

## 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

Tags: Staff