Ex-Founder / Ex-CTO
Quick facts
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Industry
- Information Technology — 676 open jobs
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
About the Role
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.
What We're Looking For
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 & Benefits
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.
Location
On-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
Computer and Information Systems Managers · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $167,565 | ~15% |
| Level II | $208,104 | ~31% |
| Level III | $248,643 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $289,182 | ~61% |
The listing has no salary, so we can't place it on a wage level. Ask the employer which wage level they'd file at: Level III–IV registrations get 3–4 entries in the H-1B lottery.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
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. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. 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.