[Hiring] Program Lead @Reka

Role Description

We are hiring a Program Lead and are looking for operators who are AI-native: more time with agents than with people, automation before hiring, systems that scale rather than teams that grow. That is how a team this small outruns much bigger companies. You need to be someone who can be dropped into an unfamiliar problem, with a client waiting, and come back with a plan that holds.

• 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: turn a research problem into something deliverable, 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 the contributors and partner businesses a program needs, in industries and geographies where none exists.
• Go at whichever blocker is in front of you: some days a spec or a tooling gap, other days 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 the contributor and the client in the roadmap.
• Go where the work happens; physical operations are won by whoever showed up.
• Build leverage as you go — agents, automation, playbooks — so the second program costs a fraction of the first and the tenth runs itself.

Qualifications

• Early-stage marketplace operating experience — required.
• AI-native — required.
• You have operated, not only advised.
• Structured problem solving under pressure: first principles, then a plan a client and a team can both act on.
• Numerate — you build the model, find where the economics break, and argue for the change.
• Credible with a research lead and with a shift supervisor alike.
• Bonus: exposure to AI labs or training data pipelines.

Benefits

• 5 weeks of paid leave to recharge.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits including vision and dental.
• Additional perks that support your well-being.
• Visa assistance, including H1B and OPT transfers, for US employees.