Customer Operations Lead

Clera

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in customer operations or related field.
  • Experience managing customer activation and engagement processes.
  • Ability to resolve complex issues by collaborating with internal teams.
  • Experience building tools or systems for workflow improvement.
  • Direct experience in customer engagement with a focus on trust-building and issue resolution.
  • Analytical mindset to synthesize feedback into actionable improvements.
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools for productivity enhancement.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer-facing workflows that require a personal touch.
  • Serve as the human interface across diverse customer segments.
  • Resolve onboarding and platform challenges by coordinating with internal teams.
  • Identify and address recurring customer issues for process improvement.
  • Create streamlined systems and tools for operational efficiency.
  • Manage multiple customer queries with attention to detail.
  • Participate in escalated customer conversations requiring nuanced judgment.

Benefits

  • Flexible location options including on-site and remote work.
  • Early-stage equity opportunity in a growing AI infrastructure company.
  • High-impact role with significant autonomy.
  • Opportunity to contribute to the development of critical AI infrastructure.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're a fast-growing, early-stage AI/ML infrastructure company building the platform for creating, managing, and scaling Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments - used by frontier AI labs, data suppliers, and enterprise buyers to train and evaluate cutting-edge models.

We're looking for a Customer Operations Lead to own the human layer of our customer experience - the high-judgment, relationship-driven work that AI shouldn't (or can't) handle. You'll serve as the implementation counterpart to our GTM Engineers, driving successful customer activation and engagement across a technically sophisticated customer base.
What You'll Do
  • Own customer-facing workflows that require human touch - building trust, clarifying context, and moving things forward.
  • Serve as the human-in-the-loop layer across our customer segments, including data suppliers, frontier AI labs, and enterprise buyers.
  • Resolve contract, onboarding, and platform blockers by coordinating with the right internal stakeholders.
  • Identify recurring customer issues, feedback, and learnings - and turn them into improved processes, platform enhancements, and communications.
  • Build lightweight systems and tools that streamline operational workflows and make problem resolution faster and easier over time.
  • Manage many concurrent customer threads simultaneously with strong follow-through and attention to detail.
  • Jump into customer conversations when escalation or nuanced judgment is needed.
What We're Looking For

Dealbreakers (must-haves):
  • Experience owning and managing customer operations systems and processes for customer activation and engagement.
  • Proven ability to resolve complex customer issues (e.g., contract, onboarding, platform blockers) by coordinating across internal teams.
  • Experience building lightweight tools or systems to streamline operational workflows and problem resolution.

Required:
  • Direct customer engagement experience - you know how to build trust, clarify context, and advance stalled issues.
  • Analytical mindset: able to synthesize recurring feedback into actionable process and product improvements.
  • Comfortable managing multiple concurrent operational tasks or customer issues without dropping threads.
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools to enhance personal or team productivity.

Nice to Have:
  • Early-stage startup experience; comfort working independently in unstructured, fast-paced environments.
  • Experience working with technical customers (e.g., engineers, ML researchers, data teams).
  • Familiarity with Reinforcement Learning concepts - you know what environments, evals, reward signals, and benchmarks are.
  • Background in consulting, business operations, or implementation roles.
Location

This role has flexible location options:
  • San Francisco, CA - on-site (preferred for US-based candidates)
  • Singapore - on-site for Southeast Asia-based candidates
  • Europe or other regions - fully remote as an independent contractor

Visa sponsorship is available.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary range: $100,000 - $150,000 USD annually (for US-based, full-time roles)
  • Early-stage equity opportunity
  • High-impact, high-autonomy role at a company building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI

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