Operations Lead

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation stipend

Visa sponsorship

Health, dental and vision

Job summary

AIUC in San Francisco seeks an operational leader to own how the business runs, insourcing core operations, and building scalable systems and financial controls for rapid growth.

You will centralize vendors and spend, support recruiting and people ops, and manage strategic finance and board reporting to drive data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in operations at a high-growth startup or equivalent generalist background.
• Analytical and detail-oriented with a focus on efficiency and process rigor.
• Strong ability to translate first-principles thinking into concrete operational plans.

Responsibilities

• Insourcing and owning core operations, building in-house infrastructure, processes, and systems.
• Centralize spend, implement financial controls, and create visibility into expenditures.
• Support recruiting and people ops to scale headcount across functions.
• Run strategic finance and board reporting, and provide numbers-driven leadership insights.
• Identify bottlenecks and redesign processes to improve efficiency across the organization.

Skills

Operations management

Financial controls

Strategic planning

People ops

Vendor management

Tools

Board reporting

Job description

About AIUC

Our mission is to underwrite superintelligence. We red‑team, certify, and insure agents, e.g. ElevenLabs, UiPath, Intercom. Soon, agents will take on critical work in hospitals, banks and governments, creating abundance – or going terribly wrong. History teaches us that standards and insurance are capitalism’s best tools for making risk legible and shaping incentives. We’ve built the gold standard for agent security & reliability, AIUC‑1, with 100+ CISOs from the Fortune 1000. Our team comes from Anthropic, McKinsey, METR, Weights & Biases, Perplexity, Thiel Fellowship, etc. We’ve raised $55m from investors like Ribbit, First Harmonic and Nat Friedman.

Role

We’re looking for someone who can be the operational backbone of AIUC and own how the business runs from first principles – insourcing the core operations we’re currently stitching together, building the systems and financial controls a fast‑scaling company needs, and removing friction and bottlenecks wherever you find them to gear us for growth.

Responsibilities

• Insourcing and owning core operations – bring the operational infrastructure, systems and processes that keep AIUC running in-house (vendors, contractors, legal, HR, etc).
• Centralize spend and financial controls – consolidate vendors and spend, put controls in place, and create visibility into where money goes.
• Support recruiting and people ops – help the team hire and onboard well as we grow headcount across functions.
• Run strategic finance and reporting – own board reporting, financial planning, and the numbers leadership runs the company on.
• Drive efficiency across the org – identify where the company is losing time or money and design the fix; turn unstructured problems into structured, durable systems.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience, ideally having owned operations at a high‑growth startup and seen scaling pains firsthand – or a top‑tier generalist (consulting, finance, operating) we trust to learn ops fast.
• A killer smart generalist: analytical, detail‑obsessed, obsessive about efficiency, with a relentless work ethic.
• Strong reasoning from first principles and is just as comfortable going from a blank page to a concrete plan as executing it.
• Moves with urgency and communicates with structure.
• Finds satisfaction in enabling others and takes pride in operations that run seamlessly.

Compensation & Perks

Annual salary as above. Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary. Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible.

Values

• Strong back – high standards, keep our promises, work hard.
• Open heart – say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions.
• Fast feet – experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace.
• Eyes up – ‘Feel the AGI’ across our strategy, teams and day‑to‑day work.