AI Operations Associate (India, Remote)

About this role: AI Operations Associate, India (₹600,000 - ₹1,000,000/year)

Human quality checks on My Client's AI during US business hours. Most of the job is reviewing AI-written scheduling messages and marking them as good to go or not, plus making judgment calls on cases the AI can’t handle. You’d join an existing team of about 10 people doing this work, in a generalist, high-ownership role with a path to management. This role is fully remote within India, on night shifts 6 days a week.

What You’ll Own

• Review AI-generated scheduling actions and messages before they go to executive search firms and their candidates

• Make real-time calls on ambiguous cases, such as tone, rescheduling requests, and missing context from earlier in a thread

• Catch errors in time zones, intent, tone, and thread context before they reach clients

• Flag recurring AI behavior patterns to the founders and product team

• Help design the playbooks the AI learns from, and take on adjacent operations projects

Requirements

• Excellent written and spoken English, at a TOEFL iBT 110+ level

• Sound judgment under time pressure, with consistent reliability shift after shift

• Degree from a top-tier university

Job Details

• Experience: 1+ Years

• Salary: ₹600,000 - ₹1,000,000/year

• Equity: Competitive Equity

• Visa Sponsorship: None Available

• Employment Type: Contract position

• Work Type: Remote

• Benefits & perks: Investment in professional growth

Green Flags to consider for your application

• Data labeling experience

• English, literature or writing majors moving into AI or operations

• Big 4 or equivalent background

• Strong personality and a proven ability to grind

Red Flags to reject your application

• Comes across as high ego or a know-it-all

• Doesn’t use AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude day to day

More Information about my Client: My Client is an AI scheduling agent that handles the back-and-forth of booking meetings via email, SMS, and WhatsApp. It handles the whole coordination process, from merging calendars and proposing times to following up and securing the invite. Its core customers are executive search firms, where Vela works as an AI recruiting coordinator: finding times, following up, managing changes, and keeping interviews moving.

Company Size: 1-10

Funding Stage: Seed

Founding Year: 2026