Founding Operations

Simplify; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplify is hiring a founding operations teammate who will work directly with the founders, own critical weekly priorities, and build the systems and AI workflows that let a small team operate like a much bigger one.

This role is not a coordinator position; you will take a problem from “we should figure this out” to a concrete recommendation, then to a working process that runs without us.

Qualifications

• Experience turning incomplete information into clear recommendations.
• Experience building or improving something at a startup.
• Ability to build AI workflows that save time with checks.
• Ability to use business data to weigh costs against impact.
• Willingness to work in SF FiDi office and start within ~30 days.

Responsibilities

• Own founder priorities from initial research through execution: recommend a direction, make trade-offs clear and drive the chosen work to completion.
• Own new-customer onboarding and early results, coordinating setup, resolving obstacles and improving the process using customer feedback.
• Help grow our services business through prospect outreach, proposals and follow-ups. Build and deliver demos tailored to customer needs, manage existing commitments, catch risks early and identify expansion opportunities.
• Build and run our hiring process, keeping interviews, candidate follow-ups, feedback and decisions moving.
• Own the quality and pace of offshore work, translating priorities into assignments, reviewing results and fixing recurring delivery problems.
• Build repeatable operations through help documents, internal guides, automated reporting and AI workflows that maintain quality as volume grows.

Skills

Startup experience

AI workflows experience

Data-driven decision making

Problem solving

Communication of recommendations

Job description

We’re hiring a founding operations teammate to work directly with the founders, own whatever matters most that week, and build the systems and AI workflows that let a small team run like a much bigger one.

This is not a coordinator role. You’ll take a problem from “we should figure this out” to a recommendation, then to a working process that runs without us.

About Simplify

Simplify is building the AI-enabled infrastructure to power the next generation of hiring – reimagining how people discover and secure their next career opportunity. We believe that everyone deserves an all-star talent agent helping them plan, manage, and accomplish their career goals, no matter their background, location, or education.

Through our flagship product, Copilot, we've helped over 1M+ job seekers discover and apply to over 100 million jobs - and we've done this with a tight-knit team of just 7 people. We're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts, focused on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career.

Backed by top-tier investors including Craft and YCombinator, we're a mission-driven team working to democratize the job search and disrupt the way hiring works today.

What you’ll work on

• Own founder priorities from initial research through execution: recommend a direction, make trade-offs clear and drive the chosen work to completion.
• Own new-customer onboarding and early results, coordinating setup, resolving obstacles and improving the process using customer feedback.
• Help grow our services business through prospect outreach, proposals and follow-ups. Build and deliver demos tailored to customer needs, manage existing commitments, catch risks early and identify expansion opportunities.
• Build and run our hiring process, keeping interviews, candidate follow-ups, feedback and decisions moving.
• Own the quality and pace of offshore work, translating priorities into assignments, reviewing results and fixing recurring delivery problems.
• Build repeatable operations through help documents, internal guides, automated reporting and AI workflows that maintain quality as volume grows.

What we look for

• You can work in person from our SF FiDi office and start within ~30 days.
• You've built or substantially improved something at a startup or on your own, and can show how you chose a direction, worked through obstacles and delivered a meaningful result.
• You can turn incomplete information into a clear recommendation, a persuasive proposal or a guide someone can successfully follow.
• You've built AI workflows that save time without sacrificing accuracy, and know where automation needs checks or human judgment.
• You can use business data to weigh costs against impact, diagnose what's limiting progress and determine whether a change actually helped.

Nice to have

• Experience with recruiting marketplaces or services businesses.
• Experience building internal tools or connecting systems through APIs, scripts or no-code tools.
• Founding-team scope. You’ll be one of the first eight people, working side by side with the founders on whatever matters most, not a narrow slice of it.
• Real leverage. Our product already reaches over 1M job seekers, so the systems you build touch customers and revenue right away.
• Breadth fast. Customers, sales, hiring, offshore teams and internal tooling in one role. You’ll learn more in a year than most people do in three.
• AI as the default. We expect you to automate your own work, and you’ll have the room to build the workflows the rest of the company runs on.
• A mission worth the effort. We’re making the job search fairer for people regardless of background, location or education.