AI Operator

Key Responsibilities (All Tracks)

• Enforce Operational Rigor: Ensure goals are clear and commitments are kept. A program doesn't ship until success is defined, ownership is clear, and risk is understood.
• Drive Stakeholder Alignment: Navigate executive, technical, and business stakeholders with confidence. Provide clear, honest reporting on program status and surface risks before they become problems.
• Operate at Maximum Velocity: Keep programs moving in fast-changing environments. Adapt quickly when priorities shift without losing momentum or dropping balls.
• Operate as an AI-Native: You don't just champion AI — you use it. You stay on top of the latest models and tools, reinvent your own workflows continuously, and push your teams to do the same.
• Write the Playbook: Author best practices for running high-performance programs at scale. Distyl AI Operators should be the envy of the industry.

AI Operator: Revenue

• Own the Revenue Engine: Own pipeline cadence, deal tracking, and the BD process end-to-end.
• Create Visibility: Build the reporting and tracking systems that give leadership clear, honest signal on pipeline health, deal velocity, and revenue risk — in real time.

AI Operator: Platform Delivery

• Drive Platform Velocity: Track goals, enforce accountability, and create the forcing functions that keep platform and product teams shipping with the speed and quality our client programs depend on.
• Bridge Platform and Implementation: Ensure platform capabilities are built to serve implementation needs — tracking dependencies, removing blockers, and maintaining delivery cadence across both teams.

AI Operator: Research Programs

• Accelerate Research Execution: Ensure research and engineering programs ship with velocity - tracking OKRs, maintaining operating rhythm, and closing the gap between research ambition and shipped outcomes.
• Drive Clarity at the Frontier: Make goals measurable, ownership clear, and progress visible across some of the most technically ambitious work at the company.

Who You Are (Requirements)

• A Chaos Wrangler: You bring order to ambiguity without slowing things down. You identify what's unclear, make it clear, and keep the program moving.
• A Background That Proves It: Proven experience owning hard outcomes under pressure (e.g., Founders, Chiefs of Staff, COOs, Delivery Managers, operators from high-intensity environments). Shipped, wrangled, and delivered at scale.
• Accountable: You hold yourself and your teams to a high bar. Missed deadlines have explanations and plans — not excuses.
• A Strong Communicator Across All Levels: Switch seamlessly between technical deep-dives with engineers and high-level strategic conversations with executives.
• A Raiser of the Bar: Seen excellence at scale and use it to raise operating cadence.
• Comfortable in Chaos: Thrive in fast-moving environments where priorities shift.
• AI-Native, Not Just AI-Curious: Actively use frontier AI tools daily, reinvent workflows, strong opinions on evolving tech.
• Travel: Expect ~20% travel.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $140K – $200K (depending on experience, location, level).
• Meaningful equity.
• 100% covered medical, dental, vision for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) with perks (e.g., commuter benefits).