operations
Posted Jun 17, 2025Business Operations Lead
at Blacksmith
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs. - Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each month, running CI for 3,000+ companies and hit ~$10M in ARR in less than 2 years.
- Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier. - We’re now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.
- - Are detail-oriented and sweat the small stuff like calendars, docs, follow-ups, and processes all run better with you involved.
- - Love automating anything that can be automated, proactively use AI tools to figure things out, and are highly resourceful when you don’t know the answer yet. - Have prior
Benefits
- experience in startups, consulting, operations, or other fast-paced environments where ambiguity is the norm. - Want to be part of a small team where your work has real impact, and where success in this role can evolve into leading a critical part of the company over time. - Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in SF. Compensation and
- benefits - Competitive base + equity. - Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance. - 401K match. - Unlimited PTO. - Annual offsite. - Early-exercise stock options - 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)
Additional details
- About Blacksmith - We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast.
- We’ve more than tripled revenue since the start of 2026.
- - We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
- - We’ve raised $13.5M across Seed and Series A, led by Google Ventures (GV), and we’re intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
- - Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs.