Operations

Responsibilities

Partnerships & Vendors

• Lead negotiations with GPU and cloud providers, managing credits, capacity, pricing, and SLAs.
• Own relationships with key API and third-party providers end-to-end: onboarding, usage monitoring, renewals, and incident response.
• Stay on top of the creative AI landscape — tools, models, platforms, and emerging players — and identify partnership opportunities worth pursuing.
• Drive partnerships from first conversation to integration and launch, working closely with product and engineering to scope and ship.

Recruiting & People

• Build and own the recruiting pipeline: sourcing, ATS hygiene, interview loops, scorecards, candidate experience, and offers.
• Make Krea a place people want to work — organize recruiting events, team offsites.
• Own onboarding and offboarding, and make sure both are smooth and well-documented.

Process & Operations

• Set up and maintain the basic company operating rhythm.
• Look for a new office in SF and wherever we expand!

Legal & Compliance

• Coordinate contracts (NDAs, MSAs, DPAs) with outside counsel and track renewals and obligations.
• Own compliance projects like SOC 2 readiness and security questionnaires.

Requirements

• Background in consulting, investment banking, private equity, or an early-stage startup where you operated with a lot of autonomy.
• Want to build things and have real ownership.
• High agency — spot problems, propose a plan, and close the loop without hand-holding.
• Comfortable building systems from scratch: checklists, lightweight automations, and processes that actually get used.
• Experience with vendor or partnership negotiations — GPU, cloud, APIs, or similar.
• Strong communicator: tight docs, fast async updates, good judgment on when to escalate vs. unblock yourself.
• Care about creativity — genuinely excited about creative AI.