Operations Associate / Head of Operations

Lucid Computing; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Experience at an early-stage startup

Exposure to legal, paralegal, or 계약 관리

Bookkeeping or finance operations

Recruiting coordination at volume

Genuine interest in AI/infra/tech

Job summary

Lucid Computing is a small team building verifiable compute infrastructure, seeking an Operations professional to help run all aspects of the business. This role offers growth potential and will shape responsibilities and compensation for the right candidate.

You will own calendars and travel for the founding team, coordinate with finance on expenses, manage the office and on-boarding, plan offsites, and drive standalone projects. The role is based in San Francisco with room to grow.

Qualifications

• Judgment and discretion in sensitive business matters.
• Strong follow-through with tasks and deadlines.
• Clear, professional writing for emails and documents.
• Comfort with ambiguity and building processes.
• Proficiency with modern work tools and automation mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own calendars, scheduling, and travel for the founding team with complex coordination.
• Coordinate with finance on expenses, invoices, receipts, and bookkeeping hygiene.
• Own the office and in-person experience, onboarding and supplies for new hires.
• Plan offsites and team events, including investor or customer visits.
• Take on standalone projects, research, vendor comparisons, and process docs.

Skills

Judgment and discretion

Follow-through

Strong writing

Ambiguity tolerance

Modern tooling fluency

Tools

Google Workspace

Slack

Notion

e-signature platforms

expense platforms

Job description

The Role

Lucid is a small team building verifiable compute infrastructure. We're looking for someone to help with all things operations. We're open to a range of experience levels, from a strong early-career operations associate through to a Head of Operations who would own how the company runs, and will shape the title, scope and compensation to the person we hire.

It's a job for someone who wants to see how a company actually gets built, and who's willing to do the unglamorous parts of that well.

What You'll Do

• Own calendars, scheduling, and travel for the founding team, including complex multi-party and international coordination

• Coordinate with finance team on expenses, invoices, receipts, and bookkeeping hygiene

• Own the office and the in-person experience: space, supplies, equipment, and making sure new hires have what they need on day one

• Plan offsites, team events, and the occasional customer or investor visit

• Take on standalone projects as they come up — research, vendor comparisons, process build-out, first drafts of documents and correspondence

What You'll Bring

• Judgment and discretion. You'll have visibility into fundraising, compensation, candidate pipelines, and customer terms. That has to be safe with you without anyone needing to say so.

• Follow-through. Things you take on get done, on time, without reminders. Nothing sits in your queue silently.

• Strong writing. You'll draft emails, documents, and candidate communications that go out under our name.

• Comfort with ambiguity. A lot of what you'll do doesn't have a process yet. You'll be expected to build one, not wait for one.

• Fluency with modern tooling — Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, e-signature and expense platforms — and the instinct to automate something the third time you do it by hand.

Bonus

• Experience at an early-stage startup, especially sub-50 people

• Exposure to legal, paralegal, or contract administration work

• Bookkeeping or finance operations experience

• Recruiting coordination at volume

• Genuine interest in AI, infrastructure, or technology policy

Where This Goes

This is a role with room to grow. The person who does it well will end up owning larger pieces of how the company runs — finance operations, recruiting, legal administration, or people ops, depending on where their strengths land. If you're looking for a seat that stays exactly as scoped, this isn't it. For a more senior hire, that ownership starts on day one.

Practicalities

This role is based in San Francisco or London. The base salary range for this role is listed above. Compensation also includes equity. The range is deliberately wide because we are open to a range of seniority; where you land in it depends on experience.