Operations Lead

About the role

As our first operations hire you will own finance, people operations, vendor and compliance processes, and the day-to-day running of the office. You will also help structure customer contracts and keep our security questionnaires and data-processing agreements moving.

The right person is organized, direct, and comfortable building processes from nothing while keeping them light.

What you'll do

• Own monthly close, budgeting, and the relationship with our accounting and legal partners
• Run recruiting operations, onboarding, benefits, and payroll
• Manage security and compliance workstreams (SOC 2, DPAs, vendor reviews)
• Keep the office, equipment, and travel running smoothly
• Build the operating cadence for a growing team

Requirements

• 3+ years in operations, finance, or chief-of-staff roles at an early-stage company
• Comfort with contracts, compliance paperwork, and spreadsheets
• High ownership and a bias toward getting things done quietly and well

Compensation & benefits

• Base salary: $120,000 to $170,000
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Relocation support to San Francisco
• Daily lunch in the office and a learning stipend

About Clad Labs

Clad Labs is an applied AI lab building systems to train, evaluate, and continuously improve production agents. We turn the data a company already generates, real requests, tool calls, and human corrections, into training signal, and we measure every change against held-out tasks before it ships.

We are a small team working in person in San Francisco. We care about doing careful work on hard problems, and about being honest with customers about what improved, what regressed, and what we do not know yet.

Clad Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.