About Positron AI
Positron designs purpose-built silicon and systems that dramatically reduce the cost and energy footprint of AI inference. Atlas (FPGA) is shipping today; Asimov (ASIC) will tape-out in Q3 2026 with production in early 2027. We work with cloud, enterprise, and AI platform partners to scale next-generation inference.
About the role
We are hiring a Head of Business Operations to act as a force-multiplier for the CEO and leadership team, owning mission-critical operational programs across finance, investor relations, GTM, vendor management, and company-wide execution.
This is a multi-faceted, high-initiative role: part chief-of-staff, part strategic operator, part builder. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, handles competing priorities calmly, and can independently take a zero-to-one project from draft → plan → execution → measurement.
What You’ll Own (Responsibilities)
1. Finance Operations & Audit Readiness- Lead preparation for audited financial statements, including coordination with external auditors, the controller, and department leads.
- Set up and maintain financial controls, close calendars, revenue schedules, and burn forecasting models.
- Partner with Legal and operations to improve cash operations, AP/AR rhythm, contract processing, and spending transparency.
- This person is the finance team of the company for the initial stages
- Draft and maintain investor-facing materials, including the fundraising decks, data room, technical memos, FAQs, and quarterly updates.
- Maintain the investor pipeline, drive follow-ups, prepare CEO/CTO briefing docs, and manage investor diligence processes.
- Assemble and continuously update Positron’s metrics dashboards, market analyses, and financial narratives.
- Drive zero-to-one initiatives across GTM, Finance, People Ops, and Supply Chain—whatever the company requires.
- Own and come up with special projects such as new commercial structures - both financial and on sales side
- Work directly with the CEO on competitive analysis, pricing, and strategy docs.
- Negotiate commercial terms and coordinate with legal for MSAs, SOWs, procurement flows, and vendor performance management.
- Manage relationships with hyperscaler partners, OSAT/foundry liaisons, and external consultants.
- Establish the operating cadence of the business: OKRs, meeting rhythms, project trackers, and cross-team communication loops.
- Create scalable workflows for knowledge management, documentation, and cross-functional decision-making.
- Support onboarding for business roles and ensure new hires understand expectations, systems, and deliverable timelines.
- Draft internal memos, one-pagers, board updates, and company announcements.
- Maintain a consistent company narrative across PR, recruiting materials, partners, and investors.
- Translate technical content (silicon, memory architecture, inference economics) into crisp external messaging.
Qualifications
Required- 6–12+ years in: business operations, consulting, IB/VC/PE, chief-of-staff roles, finance/FP&A, or high-ownership startup positions.
- Proven ability to take ambiguous problems and independently deliver finished work (docs, decks, models, processes).
- Comfortable with finance (P&L, cap tables, budget models), investor relations, and vendor/contract workflows.
- Exceptional writing and synthesis ability; mastery of slides, structured memos, and rigorous detail.
- Highly organized, reliable, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple complex projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work with engineering, product, and executives with minimal oversight.
- Experience in semiconductors, hardware, AI/ML infrastructure, or deep-tech environments.
- Prior involvement in audits, fundraises, or M&A diligence.
- Familiarity with regulatory programs (e.g., CHIPS, DOE, DoD, export controls) or government contracting.
- Experience implementing ERP/financial systems and business process tooling.
Top Skills
What We Do
Positron delivers vendor freedom and faster inference for both enterprises and research teams, by allowing them to use hardware and software explicitly designed from the ground up for generative and large language models (LLMs).
Through lower power usage and drastically lower total cost of ownership (TCO), Positron enables you to run popular open source LLMs to serve multiple users at high token rates and long context lengths. Positron is also designing its own ASIC to expand from inference and fine tuning to also support training and other parallel compute workloads.
