Head of Operations
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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