Program Lead

Claru is building the data layer for the physical world—where skill lives—so models can learn from it. We sell data to frontier labs and robotics companies: zero to seven figures of ARR in under six months with a team of five. It’s a two-sided marketplace: labs arrive with a research problem and a budget, not a specification; contributors and partner businesses capture the work they already do, paid per approved unit. Both sides grow engagement by engagement.

About the role

We are hiring a Program Lead who thrives in an AI-native environment: more time with agents than with people, automation before hiring, systems that scale rather than teams that grow. You’ll be dropped into unfamiliar problems with clients waiting and expected to return with a plan that holds.

Responsibilities

• Turn an open-ended research need into a program with a scope, a standard, a timeline, and agreed economics—then own the number
• Work directly with frontier labs and robotics teams: translate research problems into deliverables, keep sophisticated buyers confident, and own the relationship from first call to delivery
• Partner with our supply team to build the supply side from nothing if needed: recruit, activate, and retain contributors and partner businesses in industries and geographies where none exists
• Tackle whichever blocker is in front of you—whether it’s a spec, a tooling gap, a person, a partner, or an incentive
• Act as product manager for the platform team: your field evidence decides what gets built next, and you speak for both contributors and clients in the roadmap
• Go where the work happens; physical operations are won by whoever showed up
• Build leverage—agents, automation, playbooks—so the second program costs a fraction of the first and the tenth runs itself

Requirements

• Early-stage marketplace operating experience—required. You’ve had to get a flywheel turning from a standing start in a new territory or vertical where neither side existed yet and you had to build both
• AI-native—required. You spend more time with agents than with people, automate a process before you staff it, and scale systems rather than headcount
• Operational experience, not just advisory. Former founders, high-growth early-stage startup hires, consulting, or business operations backgrounds are strong pluses
• Structured problem-solving under pressure: first principles, then a plan both client and team can act on
• Numerate: you build the model, find where the economics break, and argue for the change
• Credible with both research leads and shift supervisors alike
• Bonus: exposure to AI labs or training data pipelines

About Reka

Claru is a part of Reka (VC-backed by NVIDIA), a globally distributed foundation model startup headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reka’s mission is to build useful multimodal artificial intelligence and use it to empower organizations and businesses. Our founding team has contributed to many AI breakthroughs over the past decade, including Reka Vision (launched July 2026) and Reka Edge, a 7B vision-language model. Claru is Reka’s data business, supplying training data for physical AI, embodied AI, and world models.

Benefits

• 5 weeks of paid leave to recharge
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits including vision and dental
• Additional perks that support well-being