AI Operations Associate at Vela

Remote (India) · Night shift · 6 days/week - 6:30PM to 6:30AM IST · 7–12 LPA CTC Vela is backed by Y Combinator, CRV, Rebel Fund, and angels from OpenAI. We're building intelligent systems for coordination, starting with scheduling (deceptively hard). Our AI makes thousands of context-dependent decisions every day. For example: "John will take a 7 AM call with a CEO, but not with a peer." How do you handle that? Our clients are the world's top recruiting and executive search firms. They run searches for Fortune 500 CHROs, CEOs, and board members, and our AI autonomously coordinates the interviews that make those searches happen. Why this role matters A single error in scheduling, tone, or context can derail a six-figure search. You're the reason that doesn't happen, and the reason our AI gets sharper every week. The role You sit at the intersection of frontier AI and high-stakes client work. You are the judgment layer ensuring every message our AI sends to a Fortune 500 executive is sharp, contextually correct, and on-brand for the search firm we represent. This is high-ownership and generalist. Your core work is reviewing AI-generated scheduling actions and stepping in when the sy