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Clera

Connects professionals with startup jobs

Operations Intern

Fall 2026Posted on 10/25/2026
$20 - $25/hr
Internship
Salt Lake City, UT, USA+1 moreMore locations: Lehi, UT, USA
HybridHybrid work in Salt Lake City or Lehi; first one to two weeks include in-person onboarding.
People & HRHR Operations & Coordination
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Be organized and dependable, with the ability to follow through across multiple tasks.
  • Be comfortable calling people you have not spoken with before.
  • Have current or recent experience in customer-facing work, coordination, recruiting, scheduling, support, or sales.
  • Be available 20 hours per week for three months starting in November 2026.
  • Be based in Utah's Salt Lake or Utah County area, or be able to commute to Salt Lake City or Lehi for in-person work.
Responsibilities
  • Call and text candidates to confirm interest, schedule interviews, and prepare them for initial conversations.
  • Follow up with hiring managers to gather feedback on introduced candidates.
  • Review candidate lists for fit with role, location, and salary criteria before sharing them with clients.
  • Keep candidate statuses, notes, and next steps accurate.
  • Identify recurring operational challenges and suggest improvements.
  • Use AI tools and automation for repetitive tasks, and review the results.
Desired Qualifications
  • Have curiosity about AI tools or automation; experience using them to reduce repetitive work is helpful.
  • Prior internship experience is not required.

About the company

Clera connects professionals with roles at venture-backed startups through an AI career agent that learns their experience, preferences and goals. It focuses on introductions to founders and hiring managers instead of sending candidates into a conventional job application queue. The agent matches profiles to suitable roles, explains the fit and assists with interview preparation and salary negotiation, while employers use a dashboard to review talent and request introductions. Candidates use the service free, and employers pay recruitment fees based on the hired person's first-year base salary. Clera was founded in 2025 and is based in San Francisco.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$3M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2025

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What believers are saying

  • Early sales validate demand: founders reported over $1 million in annualized revenue in May 2026.
  • Engineers gain broad ownership: Clera's small engineering team owns product slices end to end.
  • Clera has real hiring outcomes: Bluealpha's CEO says it recruited two founding engineers for his startup.

What critics are saying

  • Customer commitments stay short: Clera lets employers start and stop without monthly fees or long-term contracts.
  • Expect six office days: Clera's founding AI engineer role requires working in its San Francisco hacker house.
  • Core models belong to outsiders: Clera improves prompts and retrieval while Anthropic, OpenAI and Google supply its language models.

What makes Clera unique

  • Clera meets candidates in familiar apps: its agent runs through WhatsApp, iMessage, LinkedIn, Slack and web chat.
  • Recruiters work inside AI assistants: Clera's connector searches candidates and requests introductions from ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor.
  • Clera publishes its production tools: its open repositories manage background tasks, search clusters and outbound email.

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Benefits

  • Company Equity
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

10%

2 year growth

23%
EIN News
Apr 28th, 2026
Clera raises $3M to launch AI talent agent representing candidates directly to hiring managers

Clera, a San Francisco-based startup, has launched an AI talent agent that represents job candidates and has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding led by 1984 Ventures. The platform introduces professionals directly to hiring managers at venture-backed startups via email, iMessage and WhatsApp, bypassing traditional application processes. Within months of launching, Clera has surpassed $1 million in annualised revenue and represents over 80,000 professionals across the US and Europe. The AI agent scouts opportunities across more than 600 venture-backed startups, matching candidates with roles based on their career goals and preferences. Unlike most recruitment AI tools that serve employers, Clera focuses on candidate representation, targeting the 70% of professionals who are passively open to opportunities but unwilling to enter conventional application funnels.