As the first Business Operations hire at Aranya.tech, you will partner directly with the COO to build the company’s operational engine. You’ll handle high-leverage tasks across finance, people ops, and compliance, ensuring the business scales smoothly. This is a generalist seat with massive surface area for someone eager to learn how a high-growth startup operates.
Business Operations Associate at Aranya
Join Aranya.tech as their first Business Operations hire and work directly with the COO to build the operational backbone of an $11.3M seed-stage AI infrastructure startup. Based in San Francisco, you’ll gain unparalleled exposure to finance, legal, and people ops while helping liberate compute for the world’s leading engineering teams. If you’re a highly organized generalist with a builder’s mindset and a passion for AI, this ground-floor opportunity offers meaningful equity and the chance to shape how a category-defining company scales. Help turn bare metal into production-ready GPU clusters in record time.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
$100k-$130k + Equity
Company
Aranya
Role overview
Aranya ClusterdOS makes production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure accessible to solo developers and teams. We’ve built a GitOps-native distributed operating system that removes the operational barriers to Kubernetes adoption. No platform team required, just production-grade infrastructure from day one. We also offer managed Kubernetes services for bare metal deployments.
What you will do
- Support financial and people operations by maintaining growth models, tracking spend, and coordinating end-to-end hiring and onboarding logistics.
- Manage mission-critical compliance and legal workflows, including SOC2/GDPR tracking and liaising with outside counsel on routine matters.
- Optimize internal systems and company culture by managing tools like Notion, organizing investor databases, and planning team offsites and events.
Who this is a fit for
- 2+ years of professional experience, ideally within a fast-paced startup environment or a role requiring extreme organizational precision.
- A builder’s mindset with a high proficiency in spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets) and the ability to master new operational tools quickly.
- Excellent communication skills and the discretion required to handle sensitive information across finance, people, and board-level processes.
Why this role is remarkable
- Direct partnership with the COO, providing an inside look at fundraising, finance, and legal strategy at a $11.3M seed-stage startup.
- Ground-floor opportunity to shape the operational foundation of a company building category-defining infrastructure for the AI revolution.
- High-autonomy generalist role where you will own critical workflows across every function, from growth modeling to culture and compliance.
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