Talent Operator

About this role Talent Operator

Competitive salary + performance-based compensation
· San Francisco, CA

Full-time
• AI Operations
• Any experience (new grads welcome)
• Visa sponsorship available

Clera is building autonomous AI agents that recruit. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Agents that find candidates, write personalized outreach, handle conversations, qualify fit, and schedule interviews. End to end.

We raised a pre-seed from top investors and have been growing to marketplace scale (40K+ talents, hundreds of top startup customers). The AI works. Now we need operators to scale it and shape the agent as we grow.

You're not a recruiter. You're the human who makes autonomous recruiting actually work.

Our AI agents handle the volume: thousands of candidates sourced, messaged, and qualified every week. Your job is to supervise the agents, catch edge cases, step in for high-judgment moments, and close candidates that need a human touch. Think air traffic controller, not pilot.

This is a new type of role. You'll define what "AI-native recruiting operations" looks like as we scale.

Competitive base + uncapped performance-based compensation tied to placements. Top performers earn significantly more.

Equity (Performance-Based)

Equity is earned through results. After a successful 90‑day performance window, top performers receive equity grants with potential for meaningful ownership as scope expands.

Benefits: Health insurance, visa sponsorship, hacker house in San Francisco.

• Supervise AI agent pipelines:
  Monitor live candidate conversations, flag errors, and intervene when the agent needs human judgment
• Handle high‑stakes moments:
  Senior candidates, tricky objections, compensation negotiations. The conversations where humans still win.
• Train the agents:
  Review agent outputs, label good/bad responses, and write the examples that make our AI smarter
• Quality control at scale:
  Audit candidate matches, outreach quality, and conversion rates across thousands of weekly touchpoints
• Close placements:
  Guide candidates through final stages, handle offers, and ensure successful hires
• Build the playbook:
  Document what works, create SOPs, and help us figure out how humans and AI agents work together

This role is a proving ground. Strong performers can move into:

• Account Lead:
  Own client relationships and agent performance for key accounts
• Agent Training Lead:
  Own the feedback loop that makes our AI better
• Operations Lead:
  Build and manage the team as we scale from thousands to millions of candidates

Growth paths aren't promised. They're unlocked through consistent execution and demonstrated judgment.

• You're comfortable working with AI. You've used Claude, ChatGPT, or similar tools extensively. You understand what AI is good at and where it breaks.
• You have strong judgment. You can look at an AI-generated message and instantly know if it's good, weird, or wrong.
• You're good with people. When a candidate needs a human, you can read what they actually want, not just what they say.
• You can handle volume without losing quality. Monitoring dozens of live pipelines, catching the one message that's off.
• You want to define a new role. This isn't a playbook job.>

Prior recruiting experience is a plus but not required. We care more about judgment, adaptability, and comfort with AI.

• Sebastian (CEO): Serial founder, started first company led learning platform to 15K users, built AI agents for German OEMs.
• Daniel (CTO): Head of Engineering at Lofino (acquired), led 15 engineers. First startup at 18, then a VC‑backed marketplace.
• Alexander (COO): Scaled SaaS to €10M ARR as Chief of Staff. 800+ interviews, 30 hires. Runs ops and GTM.

Fast and straightforward. We don't waste your time.

Clera is the agentic recruiting marketplace that activates the 75% of candidates who never apply. We’re a fast‑growing AI startup rethinking how top talent and companies find each other—solving the market's core problem of irrelevant matches through a talent‑first approach. Rather than waiting for applications, our AI agents proactively connect passive candidates with leading companies like Luminai, Windsurf, and Mintlify, coaching them through the journey to actually get hired.

We raised a large pre‑seed round to tackle this challenge at scale.

• Competitive salary + equity
• Flexible hours
• Health insurance
• Learning budget