The Role
We're building the sports agent model for tech talent—an AI-driven marketplace that eliminates traditional recruiting friction entirely. As our first dedicated Ops Lead, you'll be the connective tissue holding together a hyper-executing 3-person founding team and our rapidly scaling operation. This means owning everything from financial systems and investor relations to operational workflows and scaling infrastructure as we move from post-YC validation into growth mode.
What You'll Do
What We're Looking For
Standout is an agentic hiring marketplace that deploys autonomous AI agents to represent both tech talent and companies, vetting each side and making introductions only when fit is confirmed. It operates on a 'Hollywood agent' model where talent gets free, passive, and anonymous career representation while companies pay only on a successful hire. The platform focuses on the startup ecosystem, targeting founding engineers, early product hires, and GTM leaders at pre-seed through Series B companies. Standout is a Y Combinator P26 (Spring 2026) company based in San Francisco.
Salary
$120,000 - $165,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
4+ years
Total raised
$4.0M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.