THE ROLE
This is the first dedicated operations hire at Coval. You'll own business operations, partnerships, and go-to-market support at a company that's scaling very fast and needs someone to make the business side run as well as the engineering side.
What this looks like:
• Business operations. Procurement, legal coordination, vendor management, and the operational infrastructure that keeps a growing company running smoothly.
• Strategic partnerships. Defining what partnerships with key players look like: reseller agreements, distribution deals, co-selling motions. This is part growth, part traditional biz ops.
• Sales support and events. Running sales dinners, supporting the go-to-market motion, and helping shape events and thought leadership as we build the brand.
• Pricing and packaging strategy. Working closely with sales and product to figure out how we price, package, and distribute. A lot of early work will be here — getting this right is critical.
• Growth operations. You'll sit at the intersection of sales, product, and partnerships, making sure the operational side of growth doesn't become a bottleneck.
This is not a back-office role. You'll start broad and as the company scales, you'll help define what the operations function becomes and who we hire into it.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
• You've done biz ops or growth ops at a high-growth startup and you know what it looks like when a company hits the Series A inflection point.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity. The priorities will shift fast, and you'll need to shift with them.
• You want to be close to the product and the customers. You'll sit with engineers and salespeople, and you'll understand what they're building and selling.
• You have good judgment about where to be precise (legal, contracts) and where to move fast (partnerships, events, pricing experiments).
• You're a strong communicator and relationship builder. Partnerships and sales support require someone who can represent Coval externally with credibility.
• You're excited about AI and want to use it daily. We don't do repetitive work here — we automate it.
Coval is a simulation & evaluation platform for autonomous AI agents, helping engineers launch dependable assistants across chat, voice, and other modalities. We simulate thousands of scenarios engineers don't have to manually test their agents. Our CI/CD evaluations automatically simulate and detect regressions.
Salary
$100,000 - $200,000
Equity
0.2% - 1%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Experience
1+ years
Total raised
$3.3M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Brooke Hopkins
Brooke Hopkins
LinkedInNo 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.