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title: 'Founding Operations at Terac'
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# Founding Operations at Terac

- **Company:** Terac
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/terac/1f185bbb-fbca-4c4d-9bb8-2d58ad7bc6aa/application

**Skills:** Project Management, Process Optimization, Workflow Management, Consulting, Finance, Startup Operations

> The Founding Operations role involves partnering with the CEO to scale core functions, manage key customer relationships, and build the founding team. The position focuses on high-priority problems, including workflow optimization and ensuring execution under demanding timelines within a fast-growing startup environ...

## Job description

Terac: The Expert Network Powering Frontier Research Terac helps teams reach faster research breakthroughs through our marketplace of verified experts. We are building agents to recruit, verify, and match 10,000s experts with 1000s of opportunities from the worlds most innovative organizations. We work with leading enterprises and are backed by top investors.

About the role: We're looking for a founding operator to partner directly with the CEO to shape and scale the company’s core functions. You will work on the highest-priority problems in the company including managing key customer relationships, building out the founding team, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. You're someone who thrives in ambiguity, has exceptional judgment, and can context-switch between strategic planning, tactical execution, and people operations.

You will:

- Coordinate the delivery of our highest-value projects
- Work with the CEO to drive important business decisions
- Oversee and orchestrate the work of 10,000s of experts on our platform
- Ensure execution under demanding timelines
- Diagnose bottlenecks, restructure workflows, and implement solutions that improve quality, throughput, and cost-efficiency.
- Work with every single member of the team.

You have/are:

- Background in consulting, finance, startups, or other operationally intense environments.
- Strong analytical and communication abilities; proven track record of managing complex projects.
- Comfortable working directly with high-profile clients.
- Excited by “gritty” process optimization and large-scale execution.

Misc

- We operate in-person six days per week in our downtown SF office
- Compensation: Competitive salary, meaningful equity vested over four years, $10K relocation bonus (for moving to the Bay Area), and an additional $5k housing bonus (if you move within 0.5 miles of our office), Health, Dental, Vision insurance, 401(k) with company match
- Terac culture: Between weekly presentations, company hackathons, and an AI-first mindset, you'll be working with one of the most innovative teams on the planet.
- Growth opportunities: You're joining Terac at one of the earliest stages and will have an opportunity to shape and grow with the company as a founding member.

## About Terac

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Terac is building the infrastructure and labor marketplace to connect AI agents and companies with verified human experts on demand.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $9M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with hubs in Lisbon, Portugal and São Paulo, Brazil)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Zac Baker (Co-founder & CEO), Jack Blair (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Labor Marketplace / AI Infrastructure / Human-in-the-Loop Services
- **Target customers**: B2B; AI companies, frontier model labs, enterprises, and research teams that need to source, interview, verify, and pay human experts (e.g., doctors, engineers, lawyers) via API.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build the labor marketplace for the post-AGI future" — to become the default interface between AI systems and human expertise.

## Products & Services
- **Terac Platform (Expert Labor MCP)**: An API-first marketplace that allows any team or AI agent to source, screen, interview, verify, and pay human experts on demand. It functions as a "supply layer for human labor," enabling use cases like sourcing 100 Solidity engineers for data labeling or interviewing 200 EU SMB owners about new regulations. The platform includes an AI moderator for screening and verification.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $9M raised.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Emergence Capital, SignalFire, Audacious Ventures, Z Fellows.
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, the company has rapidly grown to a team of ~22 people. It is building in a high-demand space (AI + human data/workforce) and has attracted top-tier investors. The company is actively hiring across 8+ roles in engineering, growth, operations, and marketing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover in a Niche**: Focuses on the specific, emerging need for "post-AGI" human labor, positioning itself as infrastructure rather than just a gig platform.
- **Verified Expert Panel**: Curates a panel of verified experts (doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc.) with a built-in AI moderator for screening, differentiating it from general freelance marketplaces.
- **API-First & Agent-Native**: Designed for integration with AI agents and automated workflows, not just human users, making it a critical piece of AI infrastructure.
- **Strong Founding Team**: Backed by experienced founders and a small, high-caliber team (10 people in SF) focused on deep technical challenges (panel quality, voice moderation, marketplace dynamics).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Panel & Platform**: The immediate priority is to build out the supply side (expert panel) and the platform's capabilities (moderator, verification, agent tooling).
- **Deepening AI Integration**: Making the platform the "default interface" for any AI system that needs to call on human expertise.
- **Hiring Across Functions**: Aggressively hiring founding engineers, account executives, and marketing talent to scale the company from its current 22 people.

## Why Work Here
- **Ground-Floor Opportunity**: As a seed-stage company founded in 2025, early employees will have significant ownership and influence over the product and company culture.
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company is tackling a "generational shift" in how labor is allocated, offering a compelling narrative for those interested in the future of AI and work.
- **Culture & Team**: Described as a "tight-knit crew in San Francisco that moves fast, sweats the details, and likes being around each other." The team includes engineers, operators, and storytellers.
- **Unique Hiring Process**: Features a paid, week-long work trial to ensure a mutual fit, with full transparency on company metrics (revenue, runway, growth) before an offer is accepted.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Offers meaningful salary, early-stage equity, comprehensive health/dental/vision coverage, daily meals, relocation support, and team offsites.
- **Work Policy**: Remote-friendly with hubs in San Francisco, Lisbon, and São Paulo. Many roles are listed as San Francisco-based or hybrid.

## Sources
1. [terac.com - Careers](https://terac.com/careers)
2. [terac.com - About](https://terac.com/about)
3. [terac.com - Team](https://terac.com/team)
4. [terac.com - Homepage](https://terac.com/)
5. [terac.com - How We Hire](https://terac.com/blog/how-we-hire-at-terac)

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