Head Of Ai N

About the Role

Lead Supabase’s effort to embed AI into its internal operating system by owning the company-wide maturity model, standards, and operating cadence; run assessments, build a small senior team, and prove agentic automation can replace recurring human coordination. This fully remote role focuses on designing enforceable standards, measuring outcomes, and driving company-wide adoption without direct authority over teams.

Directly about AI-native operations and agentic workflows; focuses on directing agents, automating meetings, and embedding AI into processes.

Location: Remote, Global

Type: FullTime

Posted: 2 days ago

Category: Product/Program/Architecture/Operations

Vibe Markers: 💻 Open Source, 🔥 Hot

Experience Level: Senior

Job Description

Role

Head of AI Native Operations responsible for designing, operating, and scaling an AI-native internal operating system that embeds agentic automation into company processes. You will own the maturity model, standards, operating cadence, and evidence/assessment framework, lead a small senior team, and ensure standards are enforceable via automated mechanisms.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the maturity model end-to-end: rubric, scoring, evidence standard, and appeals path, producing a published assessment and a written plan for each team.
• Run assessments and commitments with department heads, converting assessments into named owners and dates.
• Define and publish the standards layer: how work is tracked, decisions are proposed/resolved, shared tooling adoption, and documentation retirement.
• Fix decision processes by defining stages, exit criteria, and closing mechanisms to prevent unresolved proposals.
• Run the operating cadence: automated weekly reporting, blockers-and-decisions forum, monthly leadership review, and quarterly board formats; replace meetings with reports where possible.
• Manage rollouts: private assessments followed by public transparency dates.
• Wire standards into onboarding so new cohorts arrive pre-trained.
• Build and direct a small team (two senior individual contributors: platform and enablement), including hiring, growth, and reviews.
• Measure and publish outcomes demonstrating how much coordination work agents absorb versus human program office cost.

How You’ll Think / Approach

• Recursive Thinking: write standards that feed enforcement and produce evidence used to grade compliance; your own team is assessed by the same model.
• Inversion Thinking: design standards with the assumption teams will route around them; focus on what will make teams adopt rather than whether the standard is ‘correct’.
• AI-Native Execution: direct agent workflows rather than doing manual work; validate agent workflow definitions, data models, and pull requests; working artifacts should be machine-readable files in version control.

Requirements

Must Have

• Experience running operating cadence and program discipline at companies of roughly ~200–800 people in remote/async environments.
• Built and operated agentic AI workflows others depended on; able to read/review agent workflow definitions, data models, and PRs.
• Track record of taking a standard from zero to company-wide adoption without direct authority over adopters.
• Exceptional async written communication skills; able to use documents as enforcement mechanisms.
• Comfortable being publicly graded by the systems you build.

Strong Signals

• Experience running a maturity model or capability assessment across teams you did not own and publishing results.
• Native experience with Git, Markdown, and Pull Requests.
• Experience permanently eliminating recurring meetings by replacing them with automated systems.
• Deep software engineering background is a plus but not required.

Success Metrics

• Standards are followed without manual chasing; non-compliance is visible automatically.
• Every team has an evidence-backed assessment, owner, and written path to the next level; appeals are handled publicly.
• Pre-committed transparency dates are honored across assessments.
• Net-negative meeting time across the organization by year-end.
• Two direct reports operate independently; at least one non-reference team runs a genuinely automated production workflow.

Benefits

• Fully remote role with global hiring, plus a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP (equity ownership) for employees.
• Tech allowance for equipment (laptop, monitor, headphones, etc.).
• Health benefits: company covers 100% for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual company off-sites.
• Flexible asynchronous work.
• Annual professional development / education allowance.

Tech Stack

Postgres, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, Vector Search, Git, Markdown, Pull Requests

Skills

Leadership, Program Management, Organizational Design, Process Design, Change Management, Stakeholder Management, Async Communication, Documentation, Assessment & Audit, Measurement & Metrics, Decision Making, Hiring and Team Development, Accountability

Benefits

• Fully Remote
• WeWork membership
• Co-working allowance
• ESOP
• Tech Allowance
• Health Insurance (100% employee, 80% dependents)
• Annual Off-Sites
• Flexible / Async Work
• Professional Development Allowance