Customer Operations Lead

About HUD

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.

About the role

We’re looking for a Customer Operations Lead to own the customer-facing work that cannot or should not be automated with AI. You’ll own the systems around successful customer activation and engagement as the implementation counterpart to our GTM Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the human-in-the-loop layer of HUD’s operations across our customers - data suppliers (vendors) and frontier labs and enterprises (buyers)

• Jump into customer conversations when a human touch is needed to build trust, clarify context, or move things forward

• Resolve contract, onboarding, and platform blockers by working with the right internal owners

• Turn recurring customer issues, feedback, and learnings into better processes, platform, and communications

• Build lightweight systems that streamline workflows or makes resolving problems easier the next time they occur

Experience

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Experience in customer operations, business operations, consulting, or similar roles

• Demonstrated judgement in customer-facing situations - you know when to be helpful, when to push back, and when to escalate

• Comfort managing many small but important threads at once

• High attention to detail and strong follow-through

• Used AI tools to improve their productivity

Strong candidates may also have:

• Early-stage startup experience with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments

• Experience working with technical customers

• Familiarity with RL, e.g., you know what environments, evals, and benchmarks are

• Thrive in unstructured problem spaces

We prioritize technical aptitude and learning potential over years of experience. Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don't meet all criteria.

Team & company details

• Team Size : ~15 people currently, mostly full-time in-person, but some remote.

• Our team: Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.

• Company stage: We have 8 figures in funding and high revenue growth. We’re scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.

Logistics

• Employment : Full-time.

• Location : On-site only, for now. You can join the team in the San Francisco Bay Area or Singapore offices.

• Visa Sponsorship : We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.

• Timeline : Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation

• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)

• Lunch and dinner when you’re in the office

• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays

• Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits (US employees)

• Unlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc. *By unlimited, we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.

Due to high volume, we may not actively respond to every application, but feel free to contact us at [[email removed]](mailto:[email removed]) or elsewhere if we missed your application!