AI Operations Manager

About the Role

Clutch builds AI agents that work on behalf of credit unions — starting with Emma, our AI collections agent. In a recent deployment, Emma handled 60,000+ conversations with members (the credit union term for customers) in her first twelve weeks on the job — roughly 24 collector-years of work, delivered with a consistency no human team can match. And we’re just getting started: Emma is the first of a growing family of member-facing AI agents.

As AI Operations Manager, you will own the full post-sale journey for these agents — from the moment a credit union signs to the moment the agent is performing at scale, and every quarter after. That means designing each agent's behavior with the credit union (conversation design, escalation rules, negotiation boundaries, tone), running live testing, driving go-live, and then owning ongoing performance: monitoring results, catching drift, and proving outcomes in executive business reviews.

You are the expert the credit union is paying for. Most credit unions we work with have never deployed an AI agent — they don't know what good looks like. Your job is to walk in with a strong, opinionated recommendation for how the agent should behave, grounded in what has worked across deployments, and let the credit union adjust from there. And because this function is new, your second job is to build it: the playbooks, the defaults, the monitoring infrastructure, and eventually the team.

About the Team

You'll join the Special Projects team, working daily with the small, fast-moving pod that builds and ships our AI agents — product, engineering, and dedicated AI sales specialists. This is the part of Clutch operating closest to the frontier: the agents you'll run are being co-developed on-site with some of the largest credit unions in the country, and the roadmap changes based on what you learn in the field.

The team's operating style is direct and evidence-driven. Field intelligence you gather flows straight back into how we build, price, and sell — you will have a real voice in product decisions, not a feedback form.

You'll start as the first dedicated post-sale owner for our AI agents. As the agent portfolio and customer base grow, you'll define the roles, playbooks, and hiring plan for the team that scales this function — and lead it.

What You’ll Do

• Become an expert in the business you're stepping into: how credit unions operate, how a collections department runs day to day, the compliance rules that govern member contact, and what a past-due member's experience actually looks like
• Learn Emma end-to-end: the system prompt architecture, the full configuration surface (verification protocols, escalation triggers, constraint language, payment negotiation boundaries, tone), and the implementation process from kickoff to go-live
• Shadow active implementations and live customer deployments, including dry-run testing sessions with credit union collections teams
• Map the current post-sale journey and identify where context is lost, where defaults are missing, and where the process breaks

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years in management consulting, business operations, or a comparable structured problem-solving role in a fast-paced environment, preferably in SaaS and/or Fintech
• A recommendation posture: you lead with a point of view. You are comfortable telling a C-level executive "here's what we think you should do" and defending it — and equally comfortable updating when the evidence says you're wrong
• End-to-end execution ownership: you run complex, multi-stakeholder projects to completion without a project manager behind you
• Genuine AI fluency and curiosity: hands-on comfort working with LLM-based products, and the drive to understand how an agent's configuration shapes its behavior on a live call. You don't need to be an engineer, but you can't be a tourist
• A builder's instinct: you turn tribal knowledge into playbooks, defaults, and tooling — you build the function, not just do the job
• Executive presence: you will be the face of Clutch's AI agents to credit union leadership from day one
• Nice to have, explicitly not required: collections experience, credit union or banking background, or software engineering skills. We hire for consultative horsepower and execution — we can teach the domain