Supply Lead

About the role

Claru is building the data layer for the physical world—where skill lives—so frontier labs and robotics companies can train models. We operate 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. This role owns the supply side.

As Supply Lead, you’ll be dropped into unfamiliar markets and return with real, scalable capacity. You’ll operate AI-natively: automating before hiring, building systems that scale rather than teams that grow. This is how a five-person team outruns much larger competitors.

Responsibilities

• Build a portfolio of partner businesses—whose staff capture the work they already do on shift—across environments buyers want: event venues, retail back-of-house, construction, agriculture, hotels, warehousing. Each is won in real conversations.
• Grow the contributor base alongside it and open new geographies, keeping supply owned and multi-channel so no single partner or geography is a dependency.
• Own the geo rate card—what an approved unit costs by market and project type—so engagements are priced and staffed against something defensible.
• Own capacity forecasting—whether we can deliver a given volume in a given environment in a given number of weeks—which a Program Lead commits against.
• Own contributor experience and retention: onboarding, payments landing on time, support, and understanding why people stop.
• Partner with the platform team on the tooling that makes supply self-serve.

Requirements

• Early-stage marketplace operating experience—required. You’ve gotten one side of a flywheel turning from a standing start, in a new territory or vertical: recruitment, pricing, retention, and economics. Every new market here is that problem again.
• AI-native—required. You spend more time with agents than with people, automate a process before you staff it, and your answer to more volume is a better system rather than more headcount.
• You have operated, not only advised. Former founders, high-growth early-stage startup hires, consulting, or business operations background is a strong plus.
• You close business yourself: partner businesses are won in conversation.
• Numerate—you build the model, find where the cost per unit breaks, and argue for the change.
• Credible with a company owner and with a shift supervisor alike.
• Bonus: exposure to AI labs or training data pipelines.

About Reka

Claru is a business line of Reka, a globally distributed foundation model startup backed by NVIDIA and 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. The founding team and many team members have contributed to breakthroughs in AI over the past decade, including work at Google DeepMind and FAIR. Reka ships Reka Vision (launched July 2026) and Reka Edge, a 7B vision-language model. Claru supplies the training data behind 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.

Why join?

• Elite Team: Collaborate with top-tier engineers, researchers, and operators from Google DeepMind, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), and successful startups.
• Massive Market Opportunity: Be part of a rapidly growing industry poised to transform multiple sectors globally.
• Mission-Driven Environment: Work alongside a collaborative, mission-focused team dedicated to advancing AI for meaningful applications.
• Inclusive and Open Culture: Thrive in an environment that values diverse perspectives and fosters creativity.