River AI
Operations Lead
$200K–$380K
San Francisco Bay Area +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Palo Alto, California, United States - Experience
- Significant experience required; no number of years stated.
About the job
Drives River AI’s highest-priority operational initiatives by bringing structure to ambiguity, aligning teams, and moving work from strategy through execution.
What you'll do
- Partner across the company on priority problems, providing analysis, judgment, and actionable recommendations.
- Connect teams and establish operating mechanisms that improve decision-making, communication, and execution.
- Use AI tools to research, analyze, synthesize, automate, and execute work faster.
What they ask for
- Significant experience in operations, strategy, program management, chief of staff, consulting, or a similarly high-ownership role.
- Experience in a fast-paced startup or high-growth technology environment.
- Strong problem-solving, judgment, communication, cross-functional relationship-building, and execution skills.
- Strong data fluency and technical curiosity, including fluency with modern AI technologies and tools and demonstrated effective use of AI.
Nice to have
- Experience working closely with founders or executive leadership at a high-growth technology company.
- Experience in AI, machine learning, developer infrastructure, hardware, or another highly technical environment.
Pay
$200,000–$380,000 USD per year base salary
Tools
LLMs, agents
AI focus
Uses AI tools and technologies to accelerate research, analysis, decision-making, automation, and execution.
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