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Operations Lead

River AI· Staff
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Palo Alto, CA$200k - $380kPosted 4w ago

About the role

Operations leader partnering across functions to address River AI’s top challenges, shaping strategy, building operating rhythms, and ensuring execution with high agency and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Partner directly across the founding on the company’s highest-priority problems and initiatives.
  • Take ambiguity from “what’s going on?” to “here’s what we should do” to “here’s how we’ll make it happen.”
  • Build connectivity across research, engineering, product, hardware, and go-to-market, legal, HR, finance, IT, and security, ensuring teams have the context and clarity needed to move quickly.
  • Establish low-friction operating mechanisms that improve decision-making, communication, and execution as River scales.
  • Serve as a trusted thought partner, bringing clear analysis, sound judgment, and actionable recommendations.
  • Anticipate needs and connect dots across the organization and surface opportunities, risks, and dependencies that may not be visible within a single function.
  • Leverage AI tools to research, analyze, synthesize, automate, and execute faster.
  • Execute to drive important work forward.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in operations, strategy, program management, chief of staff, consulting, or a similarly high-ownership role.
  • Experience operating in a fast-paced startup or high-growth technology environment.
  • Exceptional problem-solving and judgment, with the ability to quickly assess a situation and determine a practical path forward.
  • Comfortable with significant ambiguity and able to create structure where none exists.
  • Strong cross-functional instincts and the ability to build relationships and alignment across teams.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear decisions and actions.
  • High agency, strong ownership, and a bias toward action.
  • Comfortable moving between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
  • Strong data fluency and technical curiosity.
  • Strong fluency with modern AI technologies and tools, including LLMs, agents, and AI-powered productivity.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI effectively to accelerate research, analysis, decision-making, automation, and execution.

Skills

Required:Operations leadershipCross-functional collaborationProblem-solving and judgmentCommunicationAI fluencyData fluency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; unlimited PTO.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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