Operations Lead

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

Operations

San Francisco, CA, USA

Posted on Apr 22, 2026

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. This could create abundance - or go 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. Nat Friedman led our $15m seed. Read more here, here, here.

The 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 it and gear us for growth.

In practice this means, you will:

  • Insource and own 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.

What we're looking for

Someone who wants to deliver real impact and ownership. We think you’ll be successful if you have:

  • 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.

  • Reasons 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

  • A team dedicated to doing our lives’ work.

Our 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