Business Development Lead at Arena Intelligence | Bay Area

Join Arena Intelligence as a Business Development LeadArena Intelligence stands as the premier platform for assessing the efficacy of AI models in real-world scenarios. Established by visionary researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, we aim to push the boundaries of AI application through precise measurement and evaluation.With millions of users engaging with…

Join Our Team at Arena IntelligenceArena Intelligence is revolutionizing the way we evaluate AI models in real-world applications. Founded by visionary researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, our mission is to measure and elevate the standards of AI performance across various domains.With millions of users each month, Arena serves as a trusted platform for understanding the reliability and impact of advanced AI systems. We leverage community insights to refine our evaluation processes, ensuring transparency and relevance. Our leaderboards are recognized as the benchmark for AI performance, shaping discussions and decisions in the global AI community.Our diverse team hails from esteemed institutions such as UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, where every team member is empowered to contribute their expertise and drive impactful results.Your RoleAs a Technical Recruiter at Arena, you will play a pivotal role in scaling our exceptional team. You will be a key partner to hiring managers, guiding them through the recruitment process to define role expectations and develop effective interview strategies. Your focus will be on building inclusive hiring practices and enhancing our employer brand while ensuring a seamless and engaging candidate experience.Key ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with hiring managers to define role outcomes, success profiles, and interview plans aligned with business objectives.Oversee the full recruitment cycle from kickoff to offer acceptance, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness at each stage.Create talent pipelines through targeted sourcing strategies, including passive outreach, community engagement, events, referrals, and compelling job postings.Implement a structured and equitable hiring process by defining competencies, calibrating evaluation rubrics, and maintaining a consistent candidate experience.Uphold a commitment to excellence across all recruitment stages by continuously refining processes and improving funnel health.Monitor recruitment metrics, providing regular updates on funnel performance, diversity indicators, and overall progress.Lead offer strategies and negotiations in line with compensation frameworks and market benchmarks.Build and maintain a network of high-potential talent for future opportunities.

Join the Arena Intelligence TeamArena Intelligence is a cutting-edge platform dedicated to evaluating the performance of AI models in real-world scenarios. Founded by a team of researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, our mission is to push the boundaries of AI through comprehensive measurements and advancements.Every month, millions turn to Arena Intelligence to gain insights into the performance of pioneering AI systems. Our community-driven feedback loop helps us create transparent, rigorous, and human-centered evaluations. Major enterprises and AI laboratories trust our assessments for their reliability, alignment, and impact. Our leaderboards have become the benchmark for AI performance, influencing the global discourse on model efficacy and innovation.Our team comprises top researchers, engineers, and builders from prestigious institutions like UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. We prioritize truth, agility, craftsmanship, curiosity, and impactful work over traditional hierarchies, fostering an environment where diverse talents can thrive. Our office is a hub of excellence, energy, and focus.Your Role as a Machine Learning ScientistWe are looking for a skilled Machine Learning Scientist to enhance our methods for evaluating and understanding AI models. You will design and analyze experiments that reveal the factors contributing to the usefulness, trustworthiness, and capabilities of models based on human preference signals. Your contributions will lay the groundwork for scalable AI understanding.This interdisciplinary role involves close collaboration with engineers, product teams, marketing, and the wider research community to develop innovative methodologies for model comparison, preference data analysis, and performance factor disentangling, including style, reasoning, and robustness. Your work will directly impact our public leaderboard and the resources we provide to model developers.If you are intrigued by open-ended challenges, rigorous evaluations, and impactful research, we invite you to apply. We are looking for candidates with:Hands-on experience in training large-scale models, including reward and preference models, as well as fine-tuning LLMs using methodologies such as RLHF, DPO, and contrastive learning.A solid foundation in machine learning and statistics, with proven experience in designing innovative training objectives, evaluation schemes, or statistical frameworks to enhance model reliability and alignment.Proficiency in the entire experimental pipeline, from dataset design and large-batch training to thorough evaluation and ablation, with an understanding of scalability for production.

Join Arena Intelligence as a Data ScientistArena Intelligence stands at the forefront of AI evaluation, offering an open platform that examines how AI models perform in real-world scenarios. Founded by UC Berkeley's SkyLab researchers, our mission is to push the boundaries of AI utility.Each month, millions engage with Arena Intelligence to assess the performance of pioneering AI systems, using our community's insights to foster transparent, comprehensive, and human-centric model evaluations. Leading enterprises and AI labs depend on our evaluations to gauge real-world reliability, alignment, and impact. Our leaderboards are regarded as the benchmark for AI performance, trusted by industry leaders and influencing global discussions on model reliability and advancement.Our diverse team of researchers, engineers, and builders hail from prestigious institutions such as UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. We prioritize truth, agility, and craftsmanship while fostering an environment that values curiosity and impact over hierarchy. At Arena, skilled individuals from all backgrounds are empowered to excel in their fields, contributing to an atmosphere rich in excellence, energy, and focus.The RoleAs a Data Scientist, you will investigate and interpret the data that fuels millions of AI evaluations weekly. Your responsibilities will include generating and testing hypotheses, identifying causal relationships, and revealing insights that enhance our understanding of frontier model behaviors in practical applications. You will collaborate with machine learning researchers and engineers to design experiments, analyze extensive datasets, and develop statistical frameworks aimed at refining the reliability and interpretability of our AI evaluation systems. Senior-level candidates are preferred for this role.

Arena Intelligence builds a platform for evaluating AI models in real-world scenarios. The company, founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's SkyLab, is known for transparent, human-centered assessments. Millions turn to Arena Intelligence each month for insights, while leading enterprises and AI labs use its evaluations to measure reliability and impact. Arena’s leaderboards are widely recognized as a standard for AI performance. The team brings together researchers, engineers, and academics from institutions like UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. Arena values truth, agility, and craftsmanship, and welcomes people from all backgrounds. Team members are experts in their fields, contributing to a culture focused on excellence. Role overview The Assistant Controller will build Arena’s accounting function from the ground up. As the first accounting professional at the company, this person will design systems, controls, and infrastructure to support Arena’s growth. The role reports to the Head of Finance and is foundational in supporting a product trusted by elite AI labs and enterprises. This position covers all aspects of accounting operations, including daily financial activities, timely month-end closes, and preparation for audits. The Assistant Controller will handle complex enterprise contracts, manage revenue recognition, and develop a cost accounting framework. Collaboration with an external accounting firm is part of the job. Key responsibilities Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closes, ensuring GAAP compliance in financial statements and analyses. Manage daily financial operations, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, expense allocations, and balance sheet reconciliations for major enterprise clients. Handle revenue recognition, applying ASC 606 to complex enterprise contracts. Design and implement scalable financial systems and processes to support rapid growth. Location Bay Area

Join Arena IntelligenceArena Intelligence is the premier open platform for assessing the real-world performance of AI models. Founded by innovative researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, our mission is to enhance and measure the frontier of AI applications in real-world scenarios.Every month, millions of users leverage Arena Intelligence to delve into the performance of advanced AI systems. We harness community feedback to create transparent, rigorous, and user-centered evaluations. Leading enterprises and AI research labs count on our assessments to gauge real-world reliability, alignment, and impact. Our leaderboards are recognized as the definitive standard for AI performance, shaping the global discourse around model reliability and progress.Our dynamic team is composed of researchers, engineers, and academics from esteemed institutions like UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. We prioritize truth-seeking, rapid innovation, and craftsmanship, fostering an environment where diverse, thoughtful individuals can excel. Every team member is a deep expert in their respective field, contributing to a vibrant culture of excellence and focus.Position OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to architect, build, and enhance the technical framework that drives the world’s most transparent AI evaluation platform. This is more than just a role focused on architecture; you will collaborate closely with product, security, and data teams to identify system bottlenecks, design robust systems, and deploy code that ensures our platform remains fast, reliable, and secure at scale.Your work will have a significant impact across the technology stack: optimizing system performance, creating building blocks that facilitate swift feature delivery, fortifying our systems against misuse, and scaling infrastructure to accommodate billions of API requests and real-time interactions. If you are passionate about cross-functional collaboration, diving deep into code, and transforming infrastructure into a standalone product, this role is for you.Key ResponsibilitiesLead technical strategy for Arena’s core infrastructure - encompassing networking, APIs, services, data systems, and security frameworks.Design and develop high-performance systems capable of scaling to hundreds of millions of real-time interactions and evaluations daily.Collaborate with security engineering to integrate anti-abuse mechanisms, Sybil resistance, and trust systems into the core architecture of the platform.Work alongside product engineering to implement infrastructure enhancements that expedite feature delivery and enhance overall platform performance.

About Arena IntelligenceArena Intelligence serves as the premier platform for assessing the effectiveness of AI models in practical applications. Founded by a team of researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, our mission is to push the boundaries of AI measurement and utilization in real-world scenarios.Every month, millions of users engage with Arena Intelligence to investigate the performance of cutting-edge systems. We actively incorporate feedback from our community to enhance our model evaluations, ensuring they are transparent, rigorous, and centered around human values. Leading organizations and AI research facilities rely on our assessments to gauge real-world reliability, alignment, and impact. Our leaderboards are recognized as the benchmark for AI performance, trusted by industry leaders and influencing global discussions on model reliability and advancement.Our diverse team includes researchers, engineers, academics, and innovators from renowned institutions such as UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. We prioritize truth, agility, and craftsmanship, valuing curiosity and impact over traditional hierarchies. At Arena, we foster an environment where insightful and inquisitive individuals from varied backgrounds can excel. Each team member is a specialist in their area, contributing to a culture of excellence and focus.About the RoleWe are looking for a Scientific Content Lead to uphold and articulate the scientific integrity of the most reliable AI evaluation platform globally. In this role, you will ensure that Arena’s methodologies, data quality standards, and evaluation outcomes are effectively communicated to researchers, labs, policymakers, analysts, and businesses.This position is highly technical and demands cross-functional collaboration. You will collaborate with our research team to translate evaluation science into precise public content, preemptively address methodological criticisms, and maintain Arena’s dedication to transparency and impartiality.Your ResponsibilitiesDevelop and manage Arena’s scientific communications strategy, ensuring that our evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, and data quality practices are accurately represented externally.Steer Arena’s proactive narrative regarding data quality, countering common criticisms and misconceptions with transparency, evidence, and integrity in storytelling.Create foundational explanations of Arena’s measurement strategies, including methods like Bradley-Terry-Luce ranking, confidence intervals, and uncertainty-aware interpretations.Ensure responsible communication of Arena’s leaderboards, clarifying that rankings are statistical estimates, small variances may be noise, and uncertainty must be accounted for in public interpretations.Engage with various stakeholders to foster a deeper understanding of Arena’s scientific contributions and methodologies.

Join Vectara as a Lead Sales Development Representative (SDR) and play a pivotal role in driving our sales initiatives. This dynamic position involves outbound prospecting to high-priority target accounts and engaging with intent prospects, alongside managing inbound leads generated by our marketing team.Your primary responsibilities will include crafting and executing automated email outreach, engaging on LinkedIn, and making phone calls to prospective clients, with the goal of scheduling meetings that convert into sales accepted leads. To succeed, you will need to maintain a high volume of outreach to meet your lead generation targets.Collaboration is key; you will work closely with our marketing team to understand campaign themes and target accounts, as well as with the sales team to grasp qualification criteria and buying trends. Your performance will be measured by your outreach activities, the conversion of inbound leads, and the quality of outreach content. As the face of Vectara, you will embody our culture and professionalism in every customer interaction.

Note: We are recruiting on behalf of our esteemed client, Arena Intelligence. This opportunity is for a position within their organization, not with People Culture Talent. We are thrilled to connect talented professionals with this exceptional team!The RoleArena Intelligence, an innovative leader in the field of open AI evaluation platforms that is transforming how premier AI labs assess model performance, is on the lookout for a dynamic and strategic Social Media Lead. This role will focus on enhancing the company's visibility across X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms.As the Social Media Lead, you will define the organization's digital voice, create captivating content that simplifies complex technical developments, and engage thoughtfully with the broader AI community. Your mission will also involve designing and implementing strategies to increase reach, boost engagement, and establish a reputable presence in the rapidly evolving AI research and development sector.This position is perfect for an individual who is adept at navigating the nuances of social media, thrives in fast-paced online environments, and enjoys crafting thoughtful conversations around intricate AI advancements.What You’ll OwnSocial Media Strategy & ContentDevelop, schedule, and manage high-quality content tailored for X and LinkedIn, leveraging each platform’s unique strengths.Transform technical updates, product launches, and AI trends into engaging and shareable social media posts.Curate and oversee a forward-looking content calendar aligned with product milestones, community activities, and key AI industry events.Create and execute platform-specific growth strategies to broaden the organization’s presence across existing and emerging channels.Growth & Performance OptimizationEnhance followers, reach, and engagement through innovative experimentation and trend analysis.Spot opportunities for growth through content experimentation and real-time cultural insights.Monitor and evaluate key performance metrics to inform content strategy, tone, and posting frequency.Cross-Functional CollaborationCollaborate with product and engineering teams to amplify product launches and effectively communicate updates.

Join our innovative team at Lever, where we are redefining the recruitment landscape. As a Software Developer, you will play a pivotal role in creating cutting-edge hiring software used by industry leaders such as Netflix, Yelp, and Shopify. This position is part of our testing environment, and we kindly ask that you do not apply for this job.Founded a decade ago, Lever is on a mission to help companies attract and hire the best talent effectively. We pride ourselves on our people-first culture and have been recognized as the #1 workplace in San Francisco and among the top employers across the United States. We are looking for talented individuals to help us scale our operations and continue leading the innovation in talent acquisition.

Join our innovative team as an Engineer at leverdemo-8! This role is part of our ongoing efforts to enhance Lever's testing environment. Please note, this posting is for testing purposes only and not for actual recruitment.At Lever, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the recruitment and hiring process, providing cutting-edge software solutions to industry leaders like Netflix, Yelp, Cirque du Soleil, Shopify, and Spotify. As we continue to grow, we seek talented individuals who are passionate about transforming talent acquisition. Lever has been recognized as the #1 workplace in San Francisco and a top employer across the United States. Our team, known as 'Leveroos', is our most valuable asset, and we are committed to fostering a people-first culture that prioritizes the well-being and growth of our employees.

Dapster is actively seeking a Lead Hardware Engineer to become a pivotal part of our dynamic team. As a rapidly growing startup, this position offers the unique opportunity to influence our foundational technologies and products.About Dapster: We are dedicated to revolutionizing the market with AI-driven robotic picking solutions. Recently, we secured a significant pilot project with a top retailer, providing us with dilution-free funding to further develop our core technology.If you're eager to engage in innovative work alongside a talented and humble team, and want to share in the rewards of joining us at such an early stage, we’d love to hear from you!

Join our dynamic sales team as a Sales Development Representative for the vibrant Bay Area market. At Side Inc., we are dedicated to transforming the real estate industry by empowering agents through innovative technology and unparalleled support. As a key player in our sales team, you will engage with potential clients, generate leads, and cultivate meaningful relationships to drive business growth.

Note: We are excited to facilitate this recruitment for our esteemed client. This position is directly with Arena Intelligence, not People Culture Talent. We look forward to connecting skilled professionals with this remarkable team!The RoleArena Intelligence is redefining the landscape for assessing AI model performance in practical applications. Originating from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, our platform, Arena.ai, has established itself as the benchmark for AI model evaluation, gaining the trust of researchers, developers, and enterprises that are paving the future of artificial intelligence.Our mission is to create API-driven services tailored for enterprise clients. We aim to deliver premier machine learning products (like Arena Max) that align with their specific business needs.In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for the foundational infrastructure that transforms our research capabilities into enterprise-ready products. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the developer/enterprise team from the ground up. You will collaborate directly with founders and early customers to shape our offerings.What You’ll DoDevelop API-centric products from inception, focusing on creating low-latency, high-reliability APIs for leaderboards, models, and arenas.Tackle complex streaming challenges, including handling SSE/streaming responses from diverse providers, ensuring partial failure recovery, mid-stream fallbacks, and consistent response normalization.Deliver enterprise-grade infrastructure by implementing expected features such as rate limiting, authentication, usage metering, cost attribution, audit logging, and SOC2 compliance.Enhance observability by integrating distributed tracing, latency analysis, token-level usage tracking, and real-time dashboards for comprehensive insights.Develop AI-focused products by integrating with our core evaluation platform, Arena data, and customer-specific benchmarks, while collaborating with the research team to evolve innovative concepts into robust products.Contribute across the tech stack, particularly in backend development for our Leaderboards and Evals platforms, ensuring a cohesive architecture for our public and private data systems.What We’re Looking ForA minimum of 4 years of backend engineering experience, with substantial experience in distributed systems, infrastructure, or developer-centric platforms.Proficiency in Go and familiarity with other programming languages.

Founding Sales Development Representative (SDR)Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaType: Full-timeReports to: CEO (initially)About Oodle.aiJoin us on our mission to create a groundbreaking observability company! Oodle.ai is an innovative AI-driven observability platform designed for logs, metrics, and traces—debugged in plain English. Built on a modern serverless, S3-native architecture, our platform is significantly simpler and 3–5 times more cost-effective than traditional observability solutions. It serves as a seamless replacement for Grafana, Elastic, and Datadog, allowing for easy 1-click migration. Our clients include notable unicorns and public companies such as Lookout, Zaggle, CureFit, and Fuel Labs.Our founders are serial entrepreneurs from esteemed backgrounds (ex-Rubrik, AWS, YC, and IIT Alumni) who have successfully built world-class teams over the past decade. They have firsthand experience with observability challenges, having worked as buyers in high-scale companies and as builders selling to the same market. Our team has developed and launched top-tier products like Rubrik Security Cloud, AWS S3, DynamoDB, and Snowhouse at Snowflake. Not only have they co-founded startups, but they also possess the expertise to scale them effectively. We are proudly backed by Engineering Capital, Pear VC, and SNR VC (2025's top early-stage investor).We are attracting customers frustrated with:Rising costs associated with DatadogOperational complexities of Elastic/OpenSearchScaling issues with Grafana/LokiDelays in incident resolutionThe RoleWe are looking for a Founding Sales Development Representative (SDR) to establish and drive our outbound sales strategy from the ground up.

Join our dynamic team at mindlance2 as a Senior Business Intelligence Developer, specializing in MicroStrategy. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise in data analysis and visualization to drive impactful business decisions and enhance operational efficiency.

About Sully.aiAt Sully.ai, we are dedicated to transforming healthcare through innovative technology. Our goal is to ensure that every individual has access to top-tier medical professionals, as we believe that quality healthcare is a fundamental human right.Currently, the healthcare system is burdened by delays, misdiagnoses, and overwhelming administrative tasks that lead to clinician burnout. We are changing that.Our Mission: One Human, One Doctor. We develop AI-powered teammates, including scribes, nurses, receptionists, and translators, all utilizing our cutting-edge models to enhance real-world clinical care.Our Achievements:Over 450 organizations onboarded within the last 16 months.AI agents reducing administrative tasks by approximately 2.8 hours per day and streamlining onboarding by 85%.More than 5 million clinical tasks completed across 36+ specialties.Secured $25 million in funding from prominent investors including YC, Eric Yuan, Amity, and Semper Virens.Our patented MedCon-1 AI architecture outperforms leading models such as GPT-4.5, Gemini, and Claude in clinical reasoning.We are seeking top talent capable of delivering 12 months of output in just 4 months.Role OverviewWe are currently looking for exceptional individuals to join Sully.ai. If there's a mutual fit, our first conversation will focus on aligning your strengths and experiences with our priorities.Core ResponsibilitiesDesign scalable systems and processes to turn initial traction into consistent, metrics-driven performance.Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to translate customer challenges into actionable workflows and product enhancements.Serve as a technical thought partner, evaluating edge cases, shaping AI behavior, and ensuring compliance with clinical and operational standards.Maintain close relationships with users, particularly clinicians, leveraging feedback and data to continually optimize workflows.Essential QualificationsExperience as a founder or a key member of an early-stage team scaling a SaaS or AI product to significant revenue.Strong technical background with an understanding of AI technologies and SaaS product lifecycle.

This is a demonstration role within Lever's testing environment, and applications for this position are not accepted.Lever, established a decade ago, addresses one of the most critical challenges faced by organizations: attracting and hiring exceptional talent. We are developing cutting-edge hiring software that industry leaders such as Netflix, Yelp, Cirque du Soleil, Shopify, and Spotify depend on to expand their teams. Our innovative approach to talent acquisition has positioned us as leaders in the industry, and we are on the lookout for dynamic individuals to join our expanding team. We take immense pride in our company culture, which has earned us recognition as the top workplace in San Francisco and among the best in the United States. Our dedicated employees, referred to as 'Leveroos,' are the cornerstone of our success, and we are committed to nurturing their growth and fostering a people-centric workplace.

Join Until, a pioneering moonshot company, as we revolutionize biology with our innovative approach to organ-scale reversible cryopreservation. Our mission focuses on preserving donated organs at subzero temperatures without ice formation, ensuring they can be uniformly rewarming for transplant. By tackling this monumental challenge, we aim to establish the groundwork for whole-body reversible cryopreservation, providing patients with a pathway to future medical breakthroughs.To realize our vision, we are building a dynamic interdisciplinary team dedicated to creating advanced perfusion systems, cryoprotectant formulations, and cutting-edge vitrification and rewarming hardware.We foresee a future where logistical barriers do not result in the loss of transplantable organs, and terminal diagnoses can be addressed with safe waiting periods for the advent of future cures.About the RoleAs an Integration Engineer at Until, you will collaborate across various teams to deliver next-generation perfusion, cooling, and rewarming systems. You will independently manage the deployment of these systems while working closely with scientists throughout the organization to ensure seamless integration across hardware and software stacks.

Join Until, a pioneering moonshot company dedicated to revolutionizing biology with our innovative 'pause button' technology. We are focused on advancing organ-scale reversible cryopreservation, a groundbreaking method that preserves donated organs at subzero temperatures without ice formation. This technology allows for the uniform rewarming of organs, making them viable for transplants. By addressing this critical challenge, we are laying the groundwork for medical hibernation, providing patients with a bridge to future cures.As part of our mission, we are assembling a dynamic, interdisciplinary team to develop advanced perfusion systems, cryoprotectant formulations, controlled-rate freezers, and effective vitrification and rewarming protocols for human tissues. Our medical hibernation team is also engaged in tackling whole-body cryopreservation challenges, starting with rodent models.We aspire to a future where no transplantable organ is lost due to logistical issues, and where no terminal diagnosis is irreversible, enabling patients to safely await the arrival of future medical advancements.About the RoleAs a Software Engineer at Until, you will be instrumental in constructing the computational and infrastructure backbone that accelerates our scientific endeavors. You will design and implement robust data pipelines, develop lab automation interfaces, and create scalable cloud-based systems that support our experimental processes. You will take ownership of projects from inception to completion, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and uphold high standards in code development that aligns with our growing team.