Customer Operations Lead

Clera

$100K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in customer operations, business operations, consulting, or similar roles.
  • Demonstrated judgment in customer-facing situations, discerning when to assist, push back, or escalate matters.
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent threads with high attention to detail and follow-through.
  • Experience utilizing AI tools to boost personal productivity.
  • Early-stage startup experience, thriving in fast-paced, unstructured environments.
  • Experience engaging with technical customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer-facing tasks that should remain human-driven rather than automated.
  • Collaborate with GTM Engineers as the human-in-the-loop counterpart across the customer base.
  • Engage with customers directly to build trust, clarify needs, and advance dialogues.
  • Address contract, onboarding, and platform challenges by liaising with relevant internal stakeholders.
  • Transform recurring customer challenges and insights into enhanced processes and communications.
  • Develop streamlined systems that facilitate easier problem resolution for future occurrences.
  • Simultaneously manage multiple small but critical customer interactions with diligence.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available for qualifying candidates.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're an early-stage AI infrastructure company building the platform for reinforcement learning environments, post-training datasets, and AI model evaluation. Our customers include data suppliers, frontier AI labs, and enterprise buyers - and we're looking for a Customer Operations Lead to own the human layer that makes those relationships work.

This is a high-judgment, high-autonomy role at the intersection of customer success, operations, and process building. You'll work alongside GTM Engineers as the implementation counterpart - stepping in where automation ends and human trust-building begins. You'll be central to customer activation, problem resolution, and turning recurring learnings into scalable systems.
What You'll Do
  • Own the customer-facing work that cannot or should not be automated with AI.
  • Serve as the implementation counterpart to GTM Engineers, owning the human-in-the-loop layer across the customer base.
  • Jump into customer conversations when a human touch is needed to build trust, clarify context, or move things forward.
  • Resolve contract, onboarding, and platform blockers by coordinating with the right internal owners.
  • Turn recurring customer issues, feedback, and learnings into better processes, platform improvements, and communications.
  • Build lightweight systems that streamline workflows and make resolving problems easier the next time they occur.
  • Manage many small but important customer threads simultaneously with strong follow-through.
What We're Looking For

Required:
  • Experience in customer operations, business operations, consulting, or similar roles.
  • Demonstrated judgment in customer-facing situations - knowing when to be helpful, when to push back, and when to escalate.
  • Comfort managing many concurrent threads with high attention to detail and strong follow-through.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve personal productivity.
  • Early-stage startup experience and the ability to work independently in fast-paced, unstructured environments.
  • Experience working with technical customers.

Nice to Have:
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning concepts - e.g., you know what environments, evals, and benchmarks are.
  • A track record of building systems and processes from scratch rather than inheriting them.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary: $100,000 - $150,000 USD annually
  • Visa sponsorship is available for qualifying candidates.
Location

This role supports multiple location arrangements depending on where you're based:
  • U.S.-based candidates: Must be located in or willing to relocate to San Francisco, CA (on-site).
  • Southeast Asia-based candidates: Must be located in Singapore (on-site).
  • Candidates elsewhere (particularly Europe): May be considered for a fully remote independent contractor arrangement.

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