Operations Associate

Lightberry; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightberry, a San Francisco startup building software for expressive, interactive robots, seeks an operations-focused team member to keep the org running smoothly.

You’ll implement processes, manage onboarding, payroll, invoices, and records, and build simple systems to close gaps. You’ll partner across teams in a fast-paced environment.

This role values meticulous, organized, and discreet contributors who can own end-to-end workflows in a growing company.

Qualifications

• Meticulous: you catch missing details, mismatched numbers, unclear owners, and deadlines before anyone has to ask.
• Organized: you turn scattered information into clear processes, clean records, and reliable routines.
• Follow-through: you close loops. If you own it, the team knows it will get done.
• Discretion: you handle sensitive company and employee information with care.
• Startup experience: you’ve worked at a startup or pre-Series B and own problems end to end.
• People operations: you’ve supported hiring, onboarding, benefits, or HR operations.
• Accounting operations: you’ve worked with bookkeeping, payroll, expenses, or finance vendors.

Responsibilities

• Document and improve the processes the company relies on every week.
• Coordinate onboarding, offboarding, benefits, recruiting logistics, and other people operations.
• Keep invoices, expenses, payroll inputs, vendor records, and accounting handoffs accurate and on time.
• Own recurring administrative work, company records, and compliance calendars.
• Notice operational gaps before they become problems, then build a simple system to close them.
• Help the team plan, track, and finish the work that crosses functions.

Skills

Meticulous

Organized

Follow-through

Discretion

Startup experience

People ops

Accounting ops

Job description

Lightberry builds the software layer for expressive, interactive robots. We combine voice AI, perception, and behavior systems so robots can understand people and respond naturally.

We are a small, hands-on team based in San Francisco, working across software, hardware, design, and research to turn new capabilities into robots people can interact with today.

We care about thoughtful craft, fast iteration, and shipping real systems into the world.

Robots with Souls

Yep, you read that right.

Robots are here, but they ship with no software. They’re all mute, deaf, and blind out of the box. The only way to get the robot to do anything is to write code. This is insane.

We want robots to behave like in the movies: proactive, caring, aware.

The role

A fast company only stays fast when the details stay under control. You’ll build the internal systems that keep Lightberry organized as the team grows.

This is broad company operations: processes, people operations, accounting coordination, vendors, records, and the follow-through that turns loose ends into dependable routines.

What you’ll do

• Document and improve the processes the company relies on every week.
• Coordinate onboarding, offboarding, benefits, recruiting logistics, and other people operations.
• Keep invoices, expenses, payroll inputs, vendor records, and accounting handoffs accurate and on time.
• Own recurring administrative work, company records, and compliance calendars.
• Notice operational gaps before they become problems, then build a simple system to close them.
• Help the team plan, track, and finish the work that crosses functions.

What’s needed

We don’t care about a particular degree or title. Show us how you’ve made a team more organized. We do need:

• Meticulous. You catch missing details, mismatched numbers, unclear owners, and deadlines before anyone has to ask.
• Organized. You turn scattered information into clear processes, clean records, and reliable routines.
• Follow-through. You close loops. If you own it, the team knows it will get done.
• Discretion. You handle sensitive company and employee information with care.
• Startups. You’ve worked at a startup or pre-Series B company and are used to owning problems end to end.
• People operations. You’ve supported hiring, onboarding, benefits, or HR operations.
• Accounting operations. You’ve worked with bookkeeping, payroll, expenses, or finance vendors.

One last thing…

• You can’t stand chaos
• You’d work remotely every day if you could
• You’re not a people-person
• You’re pessimistic about tech, AI, and the future
• You want to do your life’s work
• You care about developing and expressing your craft
• You love intense, fast-paced environments
• Life’s short, why work on B2B AI SAAS infra slop when you could work on speaking robots?