# Operations

**Company:** [Krea](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/krea)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Skills:** ATS, SOC 2, GPU, Cloud Providers, API Integrations, Vendor Negotiations, Recruiting Pipeline, Onboarding Processes, Contract Management, Compliance Projects
**Posted:** 2026-03-30

> Operations generalist owning partnerships, vendor negotiations, recruiting pipeline, people ops, office management, and compliance systems for an AI creative tools startup. Requires high agency, systems-building experience, and vendor negotiation background.

## Job Description

## 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.

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