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# Founding ops at closure-intel.com

- **Company:** closure-intel.com
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/closure-intel-com/am9icG9zdDoG0rbaXS_wdPQ4Ou1uxzIy

## Job description

## About Closure

Closure helps law enforcement search evidence and solve crime. Public servants across the U.S. use Closure to expedite investigations into cold cases, homicides, gang conflicts, sexual assault, and other serious offenses. We’re live with police departments and prosecutors across the country, reducing evidence overload throughout the criminal justice system. Closure is an intentionally tight-knit team of ambitious ex-Palantir and ex-IDF engineers and operators. We operate with a high speed, high integrity, and high autonomy. Closure is backed by respected Seed investors including Y Combinator, CRV, Hawktail, Liquid2, Adverb, Commonweal, and others.

Role Description: Founding Operations Lead We’re looking for a Founding Operations Lead to work directly with the founders and help build and execute the operational backbone of Closure. This is a true founding-hire role: broad in scope, high in trust, and heavy on execution, reporting to the CEO. You will own the unglamorous but critical work that keeps the company running smoothly and enables our team to move faster—customer launches, conferences, internal operations, recruiting support, and business development logistics. As Closure scales, this role will evolve alongside the company. This is not a passive or narrow ops role. We’re looking for someone who sees chaos as an opportunity to create leverage.

Core Responsibilities

- - Conference & Events PlanningPlan and execute conferences, trade shows, and in-person trainings.
- Own logistics end-to-end.
- Help evaluate ROI and decide which events are worth attending.
- Launch OpsCoordinate and execute customer launches with police departments and prosecutors
- Improve repeatable launch checklists, timelines, and post-launch feedback loops
- Support BD operations
- Internal & Office OperationsOwn day-to-day office and internal operations (vendors, tooling, logistics, policies).
- Source, design, and manage Closure merch for conferences, customers, and recruiting. Treat merch as a strategic asset—not swag for swag’s sake.
- People operations support
- TalentBe the heartbeat of our recruiting
- Improve candidate experience and time-to-hire
- Support onboarding and early employee experience.

## About You

- Mission-Driven: You’re excited to contribute to public safety and improving the effectiveness of U.S. law enforcement and prosecutors.
- Owner Mentality: You take responsibility naturally, don’t wait to be asked, and feel uncomfortable when things are sloppy or unclear.
- Comfort with Ambiguity: You thrive in early-stage environments where the playbook doesn’t exist yet.
- High-Execution: You get things done quickly, reliably, and with attention to detail.
- Strong Communicator: You can work comfortably with founders, engineers, customers, vendors, and partners.
- Low-Ego, High-Standards: You’re happy to do the “unsexy” work if it moves the company forward. Prior experience in startups, operations, consulting, government, or high-intensity environments is a plus—but not required if you’re exceptional.

Location

- New York City (Preferred)
- Bay Area, California (flexible work arrangement available)

Additional Details

## Compensation

- Salary: $75k - $175k, varying based on experience and fit
- Equity: Meaningful ownership stake, with room for growth as the role evolves
- Bonuses: Refreshes and bonuses based on company & personal performance

## Benefits

- 401(k): 3% employer contribution, regardless of employee contribution
- PTO & Sick Leave: Unlimited
- Insurance: Health and Dental (direct or reimbursed), Life Insurance
- Disability: Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Wellness: Discounted gym and class memberships

Criminal Justice Readiness

- Given the sensitivity of our work, we support employees through FBI background checks / CJIS clearance as required.

## About closure-intel.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Closure is an AI-powered "digital analyst" that helps law enforcement agencies securely transcribe, translate, search, organize, and analyze large volumes of case evidence — turning evidence overload into closed cases.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator W25 batch)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (also has an office in San Francisco, CA)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Aaron Zelinger (Co-Founder & CEO) and Gilad Levy (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Law Enforcement / Legal Technology
- **Target customers**: B2G (Business-to-Government) — police departments, prosecutors, attorneys, and investigators
- **Mission**: "We help law enforcement solve crime" — specifically by combating evidence overload with trusted AI agents built for sensitive criminal justice data.

## Products & Services
- **Closure Platform (SaaS)**: A secure web platform that ingests case evidence via drag-and-drop or API integrations, then automatically transcribes, translates, and analyzes it. Key workflows include:
  - **Securely Analyze Evidence**: Centralized ingestion and analysis of case files (jail calls, scanned documents, etc.)
  - **Mapping & Pattern of Life**: Transcribing and analyzing hours of jail calls in minutes to surface critical contextual insights
  - **Warrants & Returns**: Supporting case review by analyzing case facts, evidence productions, and other case materials
- **Compliance & Security**: SOC 2 Type II, CJIS 6.0-compliant, HIPAA-compliant, with a "Zero Access Architecture" where Closure employees cannot access customer data by default.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $7M Seed round (announced March 2025), led by Y Combinator (4 investors)
- **Key Metric**: ~10–11 employees with +266.7% YoY headcount growth; 15 active job postings
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead investor, W25 batch)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid early hiring (+114.3% job posting growth monthly/quarterly), recent YC batch graduation, expansion across product, engineering, and business development functions, and early enterprise traction with law enforcement agencies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep compliance moat**: Independently audited for SOC 2 Type II, CJIS 6.0, and HIPAA — critical for selling into government and law enforcement.
- **Zero Access Architecture**: Employee access to customer data is blocked by default; support requires explicit customer authorization of cleared personnel.
- **Military-grade security**: AES-256 encryption, FIPS 140-3 generated keys, HTTPS/TLS 1.2+, MFA, RBAC, comprehensive action logging, and U.S. data residency.
- **Founder pedigree**: Team built by Stanford, Palantir, and IDF (Israeli Air Force) engineers with deep cyber security and OSINT backgrounds.
- **Vertical-specific AI**: Purpose-built for law enforcement evidence workflows rather than a generic AI tool, creating a defensible niche in criminal justice.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale adoption** of the Closure platform across additional police, prosecution, and investigative agencies.
- **Deepen AI capabilities** for evidence analysis, particularly around jail communications transcription, translation, and pattern-of-life mapping.
- **Build out the founding team** across product design, deployment strategy, business development, and technical staff — a top priority reflected in current hiring.
- **Maintain and expand compliance posture** (CJIS, SOC 2, HIPAA) as the trust anchor for the product.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: "A gritty, tight-knit team committed to supporting those who keep us safe and improving criminal justice."
- **Meaningful engineering challenges**: The platform handles complex, sensitive data with serious security constraints; founders describe "challenging engineering hurdles" that are "not easy."
- **Autonomy and ownership**: Early-stage (seed) team of ~10–11, so new hires get "serious ownership" and the chance to be founding team members.
- **Strong technical culture**: Engineering talent comes from notable backgrounds (McKinsey, Contrary, Boomi/Rivery, U.S. Army); team is ~55% technical.
- **Flexible work**: Hybrid workspace (mix of remote and on-site); open roles list both in-office and remote options. Offices in New York (HQ) and San Francisco.
- **Named founding roles currently open**: Founding Product Designer, Founding Deployment Strategist, Founding Business Development / Account Executive, and Member of Technical Staff.

## Sources
1. [closure-intel.com](https://www.closure-intel.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/closure-intel)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/closure-intelligence-inc)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/closure)
5. [jobs.technyc.org](https://jobs.technyc.org/companies/closure-yc-w25)

## Other roles at closure-intel.com

- [Founding Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-account-executive-closure-intel-com-new-york-mr2v3q9mgv20) — New York, NY