What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Operations Lead position at Structured AI?
About Structured AI
We're building the AI workforce for construction engineering - AI agents that read complex mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil drawings to run automated QA/QC, code-compliance, and design-consistency checks. Our goal is to become the go-to software platform for design engineers. We're a YC F25 company, ~10 people, based in New York and moving fast. We founded this company after working in the space for over 7 years, and experiencing first hand the monotonous tasks driving people out of the industry.
The role
This is the first operations hire and a true founding-team seat. You'll be the connective tissue of the company and a direct extension of the founders - the person who turns chaos into process, takes the operational load off the founders' plates, and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks as we scale.
The job is broad by design. One week you're owning the logistics for a conference or customer event; the next you're mapping our client-deployment process and rebuilding it to be faster and more repeatable; the next you're automating a monotonous internal workflow so no human has to touch it again. You should be the kind of person who sees a recurring manual task and can't help but systematize it.
We're an AI-native company and we expect this role to be AI-native too. You won't just use AI tools - you'll build small automations, agents, and workflows that compound across the company. We care far more about how quickly you learn and how well you think in systems than about a specific résumé.
What You'll Do
You'll get a founding-team seat, meaningful equity, and a front-row view of how an AI company is built - with the mandate to shape how the entire company operates as we scale.
Experience: 1–2 years (IB or consulting background preferred)
Visa: US citizen or already authorized to work in the US
We're building the AI workforce for construction engineering - AI agents that read complex mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil drawings to run automated QA/QC, code-compliance, and design-consistency checks. Our goal is to become the go-to software platform for design engineers. We're a YC F25 company, ~10 people, based in New York and moving fast. We founded this company after working in the space for over 7 years, and experiencing first hand the monotonous tasks driving people out of the industry.
The role
This is the first operations hire and a true founding-team seat. You'll be the connective tissue of the company and a direct extension of the founders - the person who turns chaos into process, takes the operational load off the founders' plates, and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks as we scale.
The job is broad by design. One week you're owning the logistics for a conference or customer event; the next you're mapping our client-deployment process and rebuilding it to be faster and more repeatable; the next you're automating a monotonous internal workflow so no human has to touch it again. You should be the kind of person who sees a recurring manual task and can't help but systematize it.
We're an AI-native company and we expect this role to be AI-native too. You won't just use AI tools - you'll build small automations, agents, and workflows that compound across the company. We care far more about how quickly you learn and how well you think in systems than about a specific résumé.
What You'll Do
- Be an extension of the founders - manage priorities, draft and triage email and external communications, prep for meetings, and own the follow-through on everything that gets decided. Get shit done!!!
- Handle operations end to end for a conference and event logistics, travel, office and vendor management, scheduling, and the dozens of small things that keep a fast company moving.
- Automate the monotonous - identify repetitive, manual work across the team and replace it with AI-driven workflows and tooling.
- Implement process across the company - design and roll out the operating cadences, systems, and documentation we don't have yet, and make them stick.
- Make GTM and client deployments efficient - bring structure to go-to-market motions and streamline how we onboard and deploy customers so delivery is faster and more consistent as we grow.
- Obsessed with excellence and quality. You're meticulously detail-oriented and take deep pride in the work you ship, every email, deliverable, and deployment reflects on the company, and you hold it to a high bar without being asked.
- Exceptionally organized and process-driven. You build systems, not just to-do lists, and you take genuine satisfaction in turning a messy workflow into a clean one.
- 1 or 2 years in investment banking or management consulting (or a comparably high-rigor, fast-paced environment). You know how to operate under pressure, manage detail at scale, and produce polished work.
- AI-native and a fast learner. You reach for AI tools by default, pick up new ones quickly, and are comfortable building lightweight automations yourself.
- A strong, clear communicator - in writing especially. You can represent the founders externally and internally with judgment and tact.
- High-ownership and low-ego. No task is too small; you'll do the unglamorous work and design the system that means no one has to do it again.
- Based in New York and excited to work in person, full-time, with the founding team.
- You get shit done, and make us worry free!!
You'll get a founding-team seat, meaningful equity, and a front-row view of how an AI company is built - with the mandate to shape how the entire company operates as we scale.
Experience: 1–2 years (IB or consulting background preferred)
Visa: US citizen or already authorized to work in the US
Salary : $90,000 - $110,000