operations
Posted Oct 13, 2025Business Operations
at Cognition
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- WE ARE AN APPLIED AI LAB BUILDING END-TO-END SOFTWARE AGENTS.
- We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, the AI-native IDE.
- Together, they represent our vision for collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower teams to strive for more ambitious goals.
- Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.
- If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.
- experience in consulting, investment banking, or operations at a high-growth technology company - Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously and deliver results without close supervision - Strong analytical foundation - Ability to communicate credibly with both technical and non-technical teams - Track record of exceptional performance in whatever you've pursued - High tolerance for ambiguity, context-switching, and intensity You might excel if you...
- - Have a technical degree (CS, engineering, math, physics) even if you took a non-technical career path - Worked as an early employee at a startup where you operated well beyond your job description - Have been a Chief of Staff or BizOps lead at a scaling company - Care deeply about building teams and culture, not just processes EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Cognition is an equal opportunity employer.
Additional details
- Building Devin and Windsurf is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead.
- About the Role You'll operate as a high-trust generalist, embedded in different parts of the business depending on where you're needed.
- Projects will vary: standing up new business lines, building analytics infrastructure alongside engineering, supporting corporate development efforts, or helping teams navigate critical transitions.
- You'll be expected to move fast, drive outcomes, and operate with high autonomy.
- This is a role for someone who wants to be close to the hardest problems at a company moving very quickly.
- You'll work directly with leadership and build relationships across every function.
- The path from here leads to functional leadership for those who want it. Core
- Responsibilities - Own cross-functional projects end-to-end, from scoping through execution - Build relationships across the organization and become a trusted operator that teams want to work with - Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities before they become obvious - Drive results on tight timelines without sacrificing quality or detail - Pull and analyze data to inform decisions and track progress - Communicate clearly with stakeholders ranging from engineers to executives - Pick up whatever
- You care about outcomes, not credit or optics. - Speed and precision.
- You move fast without dropping details. - Trust-building.