Company Description Vela is backed by Y Combinator, CRV, Rebel Fund, and angels from OpenAI. We're building intelligent systems for coordination, starting with scheduling (deceptively hard). Our AI makes thousands of context-dependent decisions every day.

For example: "John will take a 7 AM call with a CEO, but not with a peer." How do you handle that?

Our clients are the world's top recruiting and executive search firms. They run searches for Fortune 500 CHROs, CEOs, and board members, and our AI autonomously coordinates the interviews that make those searches happen.

Role Description:
You sit at the intersection of frontier AI and high-stakes client work. You are the judgment layer ensuring every message our AI sends to a Fortune 500 executive is sharp, contextually correct, and on-brand for the search firm we represent.

This is high-ownership and generalist. Your core work is reviewing AI-generated scheduling actions and stepping in when the system needs human judgment. Beyond that, you'll help design the playbooks our AI learns from, surface patterns that sharpen the product,



and partner directly with the founders on how we scale.

What You'll Do
Review AI-generated scheduling actions before they reach top search firms and their C-suite candidates
Make real-time judgment calls on ambiguous scenarios: tone for a CHRO, whether to reschedule, how to handle missing thread context
Catch the subtle errors that matter: wrong time zones, misread intent, off-tone language, missing context from prior threads
Surface patterns in AI behaviour to the founders and product team
Take on adjacent operational projects as we scale, from client onboarding to internal process design

Who You Are
Exceptional written English. You can draft a message to a Fortune 500 CHRO that reads natural, polished, and professional
Sharp judgment under time pressure
Sustained focus and reliability. You treat your shift like the live production setting it is
Generalist by instinct
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📌 AI Operations Associate (India)
🏢 Vela
📍 India