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Business Operations Lead

Thunder Compute · San Francisco · On-site

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About Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute makes GPUs abundant with GPU virtualization research, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise partnerships that unlock more data center capacity. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Your work will focus on helping the founders operate and scale the company. You will work closely with the CEO to take ownership of the most pressing operational challenges within the company. This is not primarily an administrative role. You will work across strategy, operations, recruiting, finance, sales, partnerships, and company-building, depending on what is most important at a given moment.

What they're looking for

  • Exceptional organization, project management, and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams without losing track of details
  • Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem-solving, including comfort with financial models, business analyses, and quantitative information
  • Clear and professional written and verbal communication, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to quickly learn technical products, customer needs, and industry context, coding experience is not required
  • Strong ownership and work ethic, with the ability to independently push a project from an ambiguous starting point through 100% completion under tight deadlines
  • Strong judgment about prioritization, tradeoffs, and when to escalate issues
More about this role

Thunder Compute is building the VMware for GPUs. We have raised over $17.5M from Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, and leading angels from CoreWeave, Microsoft, Cognition, and Anthropic.

Deployed GPU fleets are currently only 5–20% utilized. Existing solutions generally optimize individual workloads, but they do not address the underlying infrastructure problem. We are building a general-purpose virtualization layer that turns GPUs into network resources that can be pooled and dynamically allocated across a data center.

Our technology allows companies to run more workloads on the GPU infrastructure they already own, without requiring developers to modify their applications.

We are a small, highly technical team building a new infrastructure layer for GPU computing.

Your work will focus on helping the founders operate and scale the company. You will work closely with the CEO to take ownership of the most pressing operational challenges within the company.

This is not primarily an administrative role. You will work across strategy, operations, recruiting, finance, sales, partnerships, and company-building, depending on what is most important at a given moment.

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