Expert Operations Manager at Patronus AI
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Compensation
- $115k-$225k + Equity
As Expert Operations Manager, you will lead the end-to-end lifecycle of the subject matter experts who define how AI agents perform professional work. Founded by former Meta and Google researchers and backed by Lightspeed, this is a unique chance to build a high-scale operational engine from the ground up in San Francisco.
If you have 4+ years of experience in expert networks or talent operations and a passion for AI alignment, help us bring the world’s professional expertise to the frontier of machine learning.
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Role overview
You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of the subject matter experts powering Patronus AI’s simulation environments. From sourcing senior professionals to designing quality systems and vetting processes, you’ll build the operational engine that defines how AI agents are judged against real-world professional standards. This highly autonomous role directly scales the world’s professional expertise into frontier AI.
About Patronus AI
Patronus AI is a frontier AI lab and simulation infrastructure company that builds tools to evaluate, benchmark, secure, and improve large language models and AI agents. Its platform helps enterprise and AI teams score model performance, generate adversarial test cases, detect hallucinations and other failure modes, monitor production behavior, and stress-test agents in simulated digital environments called Digital World Models.
What you will do
- Lead the entire expert lifecycle, including sourcing senior professionals, vetting qualifications, and managing high-stakes project engagements.
- Design and instrument a data-driven operational funnel, building dashboards and quality systems like scoring rubrics and peer review.
- Collaborate with research and delivery teams to define domain expertise requirements for diverse AI simulation environments.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 4+ years of experience in expert networks, AI data operations, or professional services resourcing with a focus on throughput and quality.
- Highly analytical mindset with a proven track record of building operational structures from scratch and using data to remove bottlenecks.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to credibly engage senior professionals and a hands-on bias toward automation and AI-driven workflows.
Why this role is remarkable
- Ownership of the core operational engine at a high-growth Series B lab backed by Lightspeed and Notable Capital.
- Directly influence the development of AGI by scaling the human expertise required to evaluate and align next-generation frontier models.
- Join an elite team of former Meta AI, Amazon AGI, and Google researchers in a collaborative, high-energy San Francisco headquarters.
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