Internal Operations Lead

About this role

WHO WE ARE

Foundation models transformed text and images. Structured data - the largest and most consequential data format in the world - stayed untouched. Tables run every clinical trial, every financial model, every scientific experiment, every business decision, and no one had built a foundation model that truly understood them.

Until now. What LLMs did for language, we're doing for tables. The next modality shift in AI is happening, and we're hiring the team that makes it.

Momentum. We pioneered tabular foundation models and are now the world-leading organization in structured-data ML. Our TabPFN v2 model was published as a Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08328-6 cover story and set a new state of the art for tabular machine learning. Since release we've scaled model capabilities 20x+, passed 3.5M+ downloads and 7,500+ GitHub stars, and are seeing accelerating adoption across research and industry - from detecting lung disease with Oxford Cancer Analytics https://www.oxcan.org/news/prior-labs-and-oxford-cancer-analytics-partner-to-advance-liquid-biopsy-and-clinical-decision-making-in-lung-disease to preventing train failures with Hitachi https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/01/prior-labs-debuts-tabular-ai-foundation-model-scales-10-million-rows/ to improving clinical-trial decisions with BostonGene https://priorlabs.ai/case-studies/boston-gene.

The hardest work is ahead. We're scaling tabular foundation models to millions of rows, thousands of features, real-time inference, and entirely new data modalities, while building the infrastructure to run them in production across some of the most demanding industries on earth. These are open problems no one else is working on at this level.

Our team. We're a small, highly selective team https://priorlabs.ai/about of 30+ engineers, researchers, and GTM specialists, with backgrounds spanning Google, Apple, Amazon, DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft Research, G-Research, Jane Street, Goldman Sachs, and CERN. We're led by Frank Hutter https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-hutter-9190b24b/, Noah Hollmann https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-hollmann-668b9010b/, and Sauraj Gambhir https://www.linkedin.com/in/sauraj-g/, and advised by world-leading AI researchers including Bernhard Schölkopf and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We ship fast, do top-tier research, and hold each other to an extremely high bar.

What's next. In 2025 we raised €9m pre-seed led by Balderton Capital, backed by leaders from Hugging Face, DeepMind, and Black Forest Labs. The next phase of growth is here, which makes this an ideal time to join.

Your Mission

Build and run the internal operations that let Prior Labs make the most of being part of SAP while staying independent and fast. You will own the internal-operations side of our SAP relationship: shaping how the two companies work together and building the processes that make it real.

What you'll do

- Partner with SAP on the operational side of joining a global company: understand what each requirement is for, shape how it is adopted, and make sure it fits how Prior Labs works.

- Map our operating needs onto SAP systems and build the processes that connect them, so we benefit from SAP's scale (global payroll, data protection, tooling) with a setup fit for a fast growing scale-up.

- Build and document the internal operations that run the company day to day across Finance, Compliance, HR, Legal, and Product Ops, designing workflows that work in Linear, Slack, and email.

- Translate SAP processes and requirements into clear internal guides and concrete steps the team can follow.

- Automate the repetitive operational work, reaching for LLMs and similar tools first, so the Ops function scales without headcount growing in step.

- Own cross-functional project management for the internal-operations side of the SAP relationship: plan and sequence the work, track commitments, deadlines, and dependencies across the wider Ops team and SAP counterparts, and drive each project to completion on both sides.

What we're looking for

- You have owned operational processes end to end at an early-stage company, building and running them yourself rather than directing a team.

- You have shipped working, documented processes that a team adopted without hand-holding.

- You have worked with a high growth tech company, manaing large scale transformations (e.g. M&A) and shaped how its requirements landed so they worked well for both sides.

- You grasp unfamiliar context fast and reason through it to a decision you can talk through clearly and calmly.

- You reach for AI tools as your first move to go faster, not as a fallback.

- Consulting, project management, big tech, high growth startup background of at least 5+ years

Nice to have

- You have operated across two or more of Finance, Compliance, HR, Legal, and Product Ops rather than specialising in one.

- You have stood up automations or tooling that removed recurring manual work and let an Ops function scale without added headcount.

- You have turned detailed compliance, legal, or vendor material into guides people actually followed.

- You have worked with or alongside a large enterprise's internal systems (payroll, procurement, data protection, or similar at SAP scale).

- You have managed operational projects across multiple geographies and timezones.

Life at Prior Labs We're a small, ambitious team solving one of the hardest problems in AI, and we're just getting started. You'll work closely with world-class researchers and builders who care deeply about the quality of their craft, the impact of their work, and the people they work with.

We move fast, we think rigorously, and we take the time to do things right. If you're excited by hard problems, motivated by real-world impact, and want to be part of building something that matters, we'd love to hear from you.

We're building our teams in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York and we believe th

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