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Phinity Labs Verified
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Head of Operations

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • business strategy
  • operational execution
  • high ownership
  • intellectual honesty
  • low ego
  • moving quickly
  • talent roadmap
  • organizational planning
  • commercial relationships
  • contracting

Nice to have

  • startups
  • business operations
  • consulting
  • business development
  • AI
  • semiconductors

Role summary

Phinity, an AI research lab focused on autonomous chip design, seeks a Head of Operations to partner with founders on business strategy, operations, and growth. This role involves leading day-to-day operations, defining talent roadmaps, managing commercial relationships, and improving internal processes for scalability. The ideal candidate possesses strong strategic thinking, operational execution, leadership, and communication skills, with a preference for startup, business operations, consulting, or business development experience, and an interest in AI or semiconductors.

Phinity is an AI research lab focused on solving chip design. The bottleneck to AGI is compute, and we enable AI agents to tape-out chips autonomously, from architecture to post-silicon. We are building RL environments, agent infrastructure, and evaluation systems to accomplish this. Our team brings together deep AI and silicon expertise, including leaders and executives from top chip companies, post-training chip-design models at NVIDIA, AI for formal verification research, previous exits, and over 10 years of experience building chips at NVIDIA, Intel, Mediatek, and others.

We are hiring a Head of Operations to work closely with our founders to drive business strategy, operations, and growth across the company.

You will

  • Work with the founders to develop and execute business strategy and strategic partnerships

  • Lead and coordinate day-to-day operations across teams, ensuring priorities are aligned and projects move forward

  • Help define our talent roadmap and organizational planning

  • Manage commercial relationships, contracting, and negotiations with customers, partners, and vendors

  • Build and improve internal processes to help the company scale

What we’re looking for

  • Strong strategic thinking and operational execution skills

  • Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills

  • High ownership, intellectual honesty, low ego, and comfort moving quickly

  • Experience in startups, business operations, consulting, or business development is a plus

  • Interest in AI, semiconductors, or deep technology is a plus

Why Phinity

  • Work directly with the founders to shape the strategy and growth of an ambitious AI research lab

  • Take ownership of high-impact initiatives across business strategy, partnerships, and company operations

  • Collaborate with leading AI researchers and hardware experts at the frontier of autonomous chip design

Benefits include

  • Health insurance

  • Retirement plans

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Paid parental leave

  • Lunch and dinner provided in-office

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