Startups · AI

Founding AI Ops

Runtime · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

← All jobs
About Runtime

The AI agent harness for payment teams. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

You'll be our first operations hire, working in person in San Francisco with Carlos, Gus, and our founding engineers. We sell a platform that helps ops teams do more with fewer people, so we run our own company the same way. We dogfood Runtime heavily, and you'll build internal agents for every part of our operations instead of hiring around each new problem. You'll also own the customer experience, which means you'll see firsthand what our customers' ops teams deal with and help shape the product around it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience in operations, customer success, or support at a fintech, payments company, bank, or other financial institution
  • Hands-on use of coding agents and AI tools. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be comfortable building things yourself
  • Comfort working with customers at every level, from an ops analyst to a COO or CFO
  • A strong bias to automate the second time you do something by hand
  • Comfort with ambiguity and moving fast on a small team, in person in SF
More about this role

Runtime ( runtm.com ) is the agent harness that payment companies, banks, and lenders use to run their operations with leaner teams. Their ops teams build agents that trace stuck payments, work fraud and compliance alerts, clear reconciliation breaks, and investigate escalations across support tools, codebases, and logs. We work with fast-growing fintech unicorns and payments companies that move hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Their teams use Runtime every day, and it's already mission-critical infrastructure for them.

We're AI engineers who've built payment and AI infrastructure at Fortune 500 scale, so we know the work our customers' underwriting, risk, and compliance teams do every day.

Gus Trigos, co-founder and CEO. AI engineer and second-time YC founder. Former quant in BlackRock's AI Quantitative Investment Group. Built Mentum (YC S21, acquired last year) for Latin America's largest asset and wealth managers, handling $20B+ in AUM data and 120k transactions a month.

Carlos Volante, co-founder and CTO. Scaled underwriting and payment reconciliation infrastructure at Modern Treasury, Finix, and Hulu's payments team (Disney), covering billions in volume, near-perfect...

Read the full posting on Runtime's site ↗

Operations

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.