Ex-Founder / Ex-CTO
Quick facts
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
This is a founding-team seat at an early-stage AI infrastructure startup building the operating layer for AI-native service businesses. The scope is deliberately open: engineering leadership, product ownership, or running the operating side of the company, shaped around what you do best. If you can articulate what you would own in your first 90 days, this role can be built around that.
What You'll Do- Define and own your first-90-day scope across engineering, product, or operations, depending on your strengths.
- Take a technical leadership seat and help set the direction of a platform serving the next generation of AI-native service companies.
- Work in a small, high-trust team moving at high speed with minimal process overhead.
- Help shape the culture and operating model of the company from day one.
- Founded a venture-backed or bootstrapped company, regardless of outcome.
- Served as CTO or first technical hire at a startup, or shipped a product a team still credits you for.
- Alternatively, ran a service business in a vertical that AI workforce tools are replacing.
- Can articulate a clear, concrete first-90-days plan and wants a role built around their strengths rather than a fixed job description.
- Willing to relocate to San Francisco (relocation support provided).
Compensation and equity are sized for someone building the company alongside the founding team, not joining as a later hire. Specific numbers are shared on the first call. Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance are available.
LocationOn-site. Primary base is Munich, Germany, with presence also in San Francisco, London, and Vienna. Relocation to San Francisco is a requirement, and full relocation and visa support are provided.
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Clera in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Computer and Information Systems Managers (SOC 11-3021) — estimated from the job title.
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This role doesn't clearly match a profession on the USMCA (TN) list.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
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Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.