About this role
ABOUT US
Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Run the operating cadence for Product & Engineering incident response teams: own planning cycles, workflows, initiative tracking, and sprint planning
- Design and optimize key processes like retrospectives, team syncs, and engineering demos to drive clarity and velocity
- Build and maintain operational artifacts such as roadmaps, planning docs, capacity trackers, dashboards, and retros that keep everyone informed and aligned
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives that span Product, Eng, Legal, Security, and Ops teams—driving alignment, timelines, and accountability
- Partner with Eng and Agent Development leadership to create scalable frameworks for goal-setting, prioritization, and execution
- Analyze operational data and team feedback to identify friction points and implement systems that improve execution and outcomes
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- 6-8+ years of experience in Product Operations, Business Operations, or Technical Program Management in a high-growth, product-led company
- Proven track record building and scaling operational processes from scratch
- Highly organized and methodical; you bring rigor, structure, and momentum to ambiguous situations
- Excellent written and verbal communicator—clear, succinct, and persuasive across stakeholders and levels
- Comfortable using tools like Linear, Figma, Google Drive, or similar to create systems that stick
- Strong analytical instincts with proficiency in Excel/Sheets; SQL or dashboard experience is a plus
EVEN BETTER…
- Experience at an early-stage startup or scaling an engineering org
- Familiarity with incident response and site reliability process, vend