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Prime Intellect · 2 months ago

Founder's Associate, Business Operations (SF)

positionSan Francisco
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityEntry, Mid Level

Prime Intellect is a frontier AI company seeking a Founder's Associate, Business Operations to support senior management. The role involves driving priorities, executing projects, and building operational systems to enhance team efficiency and communication.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingMachine Learning

Responsibilities

Act as a day-to-day extension of senior management: follow-ups, prioritisation, and closing loops
Turn ambiguous problems into clear plans, timelines, owners, and shipped results
Drive special projects across functions (ops, finance, recruiting coordination, internal comms, logistics)
Prepare briefs, updates, decision memos, and meeting notes that keep everyone aligned
Build lightweight systems that make execution predictable (tracking, documentation, SOPs)
Create a high-quality internal “operating rhythm”: weekly priorities, reporting, and accountability
Spot recurring friction and implement fixes that reduce overhead for the team
Jump on whatever is highest priority that week — and deliver without hand-holding
Coordinate across time zones (SF/Berlin) to ensure tight communication and fast turnaround
Support key moments: hiring/onboarding coordination, team planning, travel/event logistics when needed

Qualification

Leadership supportProject managementCross-functional coordinationOperational systemsCommunication skillsOrganizational instinctsHigh standardsJudgmentAccountability

Required

Exceptional judgment and execution skills
Ability to operate independently with excellent judgment and follow-through
Clear and proactive communication skills, especially in high-velocity environments
Strong organizational instincts and ability to impose structure on ambiguity
Elite execution ability: fast, precise, relentlessly reliable
Comfortable doing whatever it takes to get the job done while maintaining high standards and discretion
Experience in leadership roles or high-responsibility positions
Ability to drive special projects across functions (ops, finance, recruiting coordination, internal comms, logistics)
Experience in building lightweight systems for predictable execution (tracking, documentation, SOPs)
Ability to coordinate across time zones (SF/Berlin) for tight communication and fast turnaround

Preferred

Top-performing early-career candidates from finance, consulting, investing, research, or high-intensity startups

Company

Prime Intellect

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Prime Intellect is a full-stack platform that offers agentic training infrastructure for organizations to train frontier AI using LLMs.
dateFounded in 2024
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.primeintellect.ai/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$70.44M
Key Investors
Founders Fund
2026-01-15Series Unknown· $49.94M
2025-02-28Seed· $15M
2024-04-22Seed· $5.5M

Recent News

36kr.com
Using only 512 H200s, the 106B model breaks through with distributed RL and is open-sourced across the network.
2025-12-10
Techmeme
Prime Intellect debuts INTELLECT-3, an RL-trained 106B parameter open source MOE model it claims outperforms larger models across math, code, science, reasoning (Prime Intellect)
2025-11-28
WIRED
This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek Moment
2025-10-09
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