At most tech start-ups, non-technical staff are treated like second-class citizens. Tough pill to swallow but the engineers are usually just more important At Petra Labs, the problem we're solving makes this impossible for us. LLMs treat each industry, company, and even query differently. So much of the value we deliver lies in the custom, ugly, and highly intellectually-challenging work that lies in this grey area. As a result, we've been forced to build the most talent-dense Strategy & Ops team I've every seen. Our staff comes from places like Goldman Sachs, Bain & Company, Moelis & Company, J.P. Morgan, and more. We get hundreds of applications from these firms every month, but even then, it's not enough to be the top of your class from the most prestigious job. Here's what we look for and what every member of our S&O team has in common: 1// Ambitious. You strive to do great things and eventually achieve way more than this job can offer you. So much of the role relies on you to go and chase down the most difficult problems without anyone giving you the task. Our best staff strive to run **towards** the biggest fires. 2// Collaborative. It's not enough to be a 10x IC and crush your core responsibilities. Your primary metric of evaluation is how you're contributing to up-leveling everyone else in the organization. How are you contributing to our Agent Platform? What strategies have you developed that everyone else can learn from? What pieces of our product have your name on them? 3// Curious. You should assume that everything we've been doing is wrong, and be driven to go and discover what more is out there that we can be learning from. We are tasked with the challenge of understanding how LLMs reason and behave. The rules change every day 4// High Stamina. It's easy to do repetitive tasks. It's hard to spend most of your day reasoning through a difficult problem, and constantly failing to solve it. It's even harder to show up every day and continue doing the same thing. So much of the S&O job here requires a level of intellectual rigor and the ability to constantly chase an answer that you can never fully solve We are hiring aggressively and can't do it fast enough - if this sounds like you, please reach out