Operations at Krea in San Francisco, CA

About Krea
At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools. We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium.

We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class Silicon Valley investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

This role

We're looking for an Operations generalist to own the systems that keep Krea running. This is a broad role - partnerships and vendor relationships, recruiting, people ops, office, compliance and legal. You'll identify gaps, build the right systems, and make them stick. If something operational needs to exist at Krea, you'll own it.

Some stuff you'll do

Partnerships & Vendors

• Lead negotiations with GPU and cloud providers, managing credits, capacity, pricing, and SLAs.

• Own relationships with key API and third-party providers end-to-end: onboarding, usage monitoring, renewals, and incident response.

• Stay on top of the creative AI landscape — tools, models, platforms, and emerging players — and identify partnership opportunities worth pursuing.

• Drive partnerships from first conversation to integration and launch, working closely with product and engineering to scope and ship.
  

Recruiting & People

• Build and own the recruiting pipeline: sourcing, ATS hygiene, interview loops, scorecards, candidate experience, and offers.

• Make Krea a place people want to work — organize recruiting events, team offsites…

• Own onboarding and offboarding, and make sure both are smooth and well-documented.
  

Process & Operations

• Set up and maintain the basic company operating rhythm.

• Look for a new office in SF and wherever we expand!
  

Legal & Compliance

• Coordinate contracts (NDAs, MSAs, DPAs) with outside counsel and track renewals and obligations.

• Own compliance projects like SOC 2 readiness and security questionnaires.
  

What we're looking for

• Background in consulting, investment banking, private equity, or an early-stage startup where you operated with a lot of autonomy.

• You want to build things and have real ownership — this is a great role if you're thinking about starting a company someday and want exposure to how one is built and run from the inside.

• High agency — you spot problems, propose a plan, and close the loop without hand-holding.

• Comfortable building systems from scratch: checklists, lightweight automations, and processes that actually get used.

• Experience with vendor or partnership negotiations — GPU, cloud, APIs, or similar.

• Strong communicator: tight docs, fast async updates, good judgment on when to escalate vs. unblock yourself.

• You care about creativity — you don't need to be an artist, but you're genuinely excited about what's happening in creative AI and the kinds of people we're building for.
  

What we offer

• Openness to sponsoring international candidates.

• Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling.

• Significant scope and company-wide impact.

• Competitive compensation (75th percentile of market) with meaningful equity.