# AI Operator

**Company:** [Distyl AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/distyl-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $140k – $200k/yr
**Skills:** AI Tools, Okrs, Pipeline Management, Revenue Operations, Workforce Planning, Talent Development, Program Management, Stakeholder Alignment, Reporting Systems, Platform Delivery
**Posted:** 2026-05-05

> AI Operator enforces operational rigor, drives stakeholder alignment, and accelerates execution across revenue, platform delivery, or research programs at a high-velocity AI company. Thrives in chaos, uses frontier AI tools daily, and owns outcomes from ambiguity with ~20% travel.

## Job Description

## 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).

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