Operations
Build and own the operating backbone behind AI video intelligence for sports.
About AirPLAi Sports
AirPLAi is building AI video intelligence for sports. We turn raw footage from any camera into customized, professional-level insights from every game. Our platform is live with marquee partners spanning professional basketball, elite youth and developmental leagues, women's sports, and leading sports media brands.
We are backed by athletes, sports executives, and strategic investors who understand the game and the opportunity ahead. We are bringing capabilities once reserved for elite organizations to every level of sport, from grassroots to the pros. As we scale from marquee partners to thousands of games, the operation behind the product has to scale with it, and that is where you come in.
The Role
We are hiring a Head of Operations to build and own the operational backbone that everything else runs on: how work gets delivered, how our partners are coordinated, how quality is guaranteed, and how live games get executed flawlessly.
You will take AirPLAi from today's hands-on partner deployments to an operation that runs reliably at scale, across many leagues, many games, and live events every week.
This is a foundational hire and a path toward a Chief Operating Officer seat. You will set how the company operates, build the team and the playbooks, and own the outcomes that keep partners delighted and the product delivering.
What We're Looking For
Must have
- You have built and run operations at a startup or high-growth environment, ideally as the first or most senior operations hire, and you shipped.
- Proven experience coordinating external partners and delivery teams at scale: onboarding them, holding them to standards, and keeping delivery on schedule.
- You turn chaos into repeatable systems. You have designed the playbooks, tooling, and processes that let a team do more without breaking.
- Comfort owning live, time-sensitive execution: events, launches, game days, where things move fast and the margin for error is small.
- A real bar for quality and accuracy. You care that what goes out the door is right, and you build the checks that make sure it is.
- You lead cross-functionally, sitting between product, go-to-market, and delivery, and you make the whole thing move together.
The X-Factor: Sports energy and domain knowledge are a strong plus. Our work shows up courtside.
What You'll Do
You will own delivery end to end: making sure every partner and league gets their game turned into product on time and at the quality bar, week after week. You will build and run the quality process that verifies what we produce before it reaches a customer, and you will coordinate the partners and people who power our operation, onboarding them, holding them to standards, and keeping everything on schedule.
You will run point on live game-day operations, the staffing, logistics, and real-time coordination that make live events go smoothly, and you will turn every repeated task into a playbook, tool, or process so the operation scales from dozens of games to thousands without losing a step. The role intersects with every part of the company. You will work directly with product, go-to-market, and the founders, and you will have real influence on what we build and how we grow, not just a queue of tasks.
Prefer Email?
Apply with the form, or email Amaan directly at amaan@airplaisports.com with your resume or LinkedIn profile. Tell us about the most complex operation you have owned end to end, how you scaled it, and what broke along the way.
Not sure this exact role is the right fit? Reach out anyway. We are growing fast, have no shortage of hard problems to solve, and will have other roles opening soon. We care far more about what you have built than a checklist.