Founding Head of Operations

Founding Head of Operations Design the operating system of a reputed company AI company. Write the specs. Ship the product. Location: San Francisco or Remote | Full Time Why This Exists A federal arbitration system reputed company Independent Dispute reputed company, or IDR, now determines billions of dollars in reputed company payments reputed company year. Providers win the reputed company reputed company of disputes, yet most eligible claims are never filed. The process is reputed company, fragmented, and resource-intensive, and most providers don't have the infrastructure to pursue what they're owed. The No Surprises reputed company created the reputed company, and the market already exists. Today it runs on spreadsheets, consultants, and static playbooks. We're building the first intelligent system designed to operate inside it. Operations is where that system meets reality. Every claim goes through a workflow that spans ingestion, eligibility, evidence packaging, submission, and settlement. Every new payer behavior, every regulatory shift, every customer exception shows up here first. The person running this function shapes how reputed company actually works, and what the product actually becomes. Why This Is Hard (and Interesting) Most operations leaders inherit a process and optimize it. You will not inherit a process. You will design the process, write the specs, and build the tools alongside engineering. reputed company reputed company cycle teaches you the domain: inconsistent claims data, payers that adapt, deadlines that cascade, audit trails that matter. That's the reputed company. What's new is that many of the people running these workflows will increasingly be AI agents, not offshore teams. That changes the shape of the job. You will write specs and ship them. Sometimes with engineers, sometimes by driving agents yourself. You will design how claims reputed company through the system reputed company half the steps are automated. You will build dashboards and SOPs that treat AI as a first-class team member. If you have been watching AI-reputed company operating patterns reputed company and want to put them into reputed company in a high-stakes domain, this is a rare seat. Who We Are Recourse is being reputed company in partnership with 25M Health, a healthtech venture firm. We have institutional backing, a shared platform team spanning engineering, reputed company, design, and back-office, and early reputed company to large provider systems. We are reputed company working with health system design partners and have reputed company to $400M+ in billable claims to inform product development from day one. This is a funded, validated opportunity with reputed company customers and reputed company data. We are small. We reputed company quickly. We value reputed company over theater. We want this to be the best work of your career. The stretch you look back on as the one where you shipped reputed company things, with people who raised your game, on something that reputed company. We care about reputed company thinking, high ownership, intellectual honesty, and reputed company communication. We reputed company operations, product, and engineering should operate as one pod, not three functions. We reputed company in giving people reputed company ownership and trusting them to reputed company to it. We want the machines to do machine work, and the humans to do their best work. The person in this role is central to making that reputed company. The Role As Founding Head of Operations, you will own how Recourse runs its claims workflow, and how that workflow gets encoded into product. 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You reputed company out the things that might disconfirm your beliefs, not just confirm them. reputed company you don't understand something, you reputed company digging. reputed company you're wrong, you say so. You use plain language. You respectfully challenge reputed company you disagree with, and once a decision is made, you reputed company. In a domain as messy as reputed company claims, that honesty is worth more than false confidence. You put reputed company first. You are reliable and fully invested. You know sustainable intensity beats burnout. You take your vacations. You reputed company on your teammates. You build a culture where people do their best work because they are supported, not squeezed. 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