# AI-Native Founder's Associate - Company: [Clera]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $120K – $140K - Posted: September 10, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is a core operator role sitting directly alongside the CEO of a fast-growing consumer health and e-commerce company. You will own high-impact projects end-to-end across operations, growth, and finance, in a lean, no-bureaucracy environment where your work has immediate, visible effect. It is designed as a genuine launchpad into senior leadership. ### What You'll Do * Partner directly with the CEO to turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into structured analyses, decisions, and execution plans. * Support day-to-day operations spanning fulfillment, customer experience, supply chain coordination, and internal workflows. * Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, then design and deploy AI-driven solutions to remove them. * Use AI to scan the market for new products and ingredients, converting signals into a prioritized sourcing pipeline. * Build automated supplier discovery, qualification, and outreach workflows that operate at scale. * Design AI-assisted negotiation workflows covering pricing, minimum order quantities, and contract terms from first contact to signature. * Support growth initiatives across marketing experimentation, performance tracking, and channel analysis. * Develop financial models, dashboards, and reporting tools grounded in real unit economics. * Leverage AI, automation, and low-code platforms to replace manual effort with durable, scalable systems across all functions. * Own ad-hoc, high-priority projects and move fluidly between strategy and hands-on execution. ### What We're Looking For * Degree from a top-tier university in engineering, science, math, business, or a related field. * Hands-on experience building AI-powered systems, automation workflows, or low-code solutions that delivered measurable business outcomes. * Proficiency with automation and AI platforms such as Make, Zapier, n8n, or equivalent APIs. * Experience as a startup operator or in a comparably autonomous, early-stage environment, rather than a primarily large-corporate background. * Strong analytical capability across operations, growth, and finance, including financial modelling and business intelligence tooling. * Experience with operational analysis, process optimization, or supply chain workflows across fulfillment, sourcing, or logistics. * Technical fluency, whether through an engineering or science background or self-taught coding with demonstrated applied output. * Experience conducting market research, supplier discovery, or vendor evaluation and negotiation. * Proven ability to own projects end-to-end from problem definition through execution and measurement. * High agency: you spot problems, take ownership, and execute without waiting for instructions. * Bonus: experience with growth analysis, A/B testing, or marketing analytics; familiarity with e-commerce, direct-to-consumer, or membership models; interest in functional nutrition or consumer products; passion for content creation and storytelling. ### Compensation & Benefits Base salary: **$120,000 to $140,000 USD annually.** Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. ### Location On-site in **San Francisco, California**, five days per week. This is a high-collaboration role requiring full-time in-office presence. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: