Program Lead (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

Company

Claru is Reka's data business, supplying training data for physical AI, embodied AI, and world models. Reka is a venture-backed, globally distributed foundation model startup headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What you will do

• Turn open-ended research needs from frontier labs and robotics companies into programs with clear scope, quality standards, timelines, and economics.
• Own client relationships from the first call through delivery and maintain confidence among sophisticated research and engineering buyers.
• Build contributor and partner-business supply in new industries and geographies, including recruitment, activation, and retention.
• Resolve operational blockers involving specifications, tooling, people, partners, incentives, and physical data collection.
• Represent contributor and client needs in the platform roadmap and act as product manager for the platform team.
• Build agents, automation, and playbooks so programs become more efficient and scalable over time.

Requirements

• Early-stage marketplace operating experience is required, including building both sides of a marketplace from a standing start in a new territory or vertical.
• AI-native operating approach is required: use agents and automation before adding headcount and build systems that scale.
• Demonstrated operational experience rather than advisory-only work; founder, high-growth startup, consulting, or business operations experience is valuable.
• Structured first-principles problem solving under pressure.
• Strong numerical and commercial judgment, including modeling unit economics and identifying where economics break.
• Ability to communicate credibly with research leads, clients, contributors, and shift supervisors.

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI labs or training data pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first company with a globally distributed team, while the role involves going where physical operations take place.
• Collaboration with engineers, researchers, and operators from organizations including Google DeepMind and FAIR.
• Mission-driven and inclusive environment focused on advancing useful multimodal AI.
• Five weeks of paid leave.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including vision and dental coverage.