Founding Operator

Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options.

We’ve proudly planned events ranging from Amazon’s intimate executive dinners in New York, to Quantstamp’s product launch in Turkey, to Google’s offsite at Universal. Within the first 6 months of launching, Nowadays has experienced exponential growth, growing from $0 to $2M in booked revenue from customers including Amazon, Google, and Notion.

Nowadays’ leadership team is comprised of talented MIT software engineering graduates as well as prestigious backgrounds including Google, Meta, Amazon, Doordash, and McKinsey.

We’re building the future of in-person connection—from intimate exec offsites to conference-scale company retreats.

Nowadays is the first AI-powered platform for planning corporate events. Our software handles everything from venue sourcing to vendor negotiations, making it dramatically easier and faster for teams to meet IRL.

We’ve planned events around the world for companies like Google, Amazon, and Quantstamp—and we’re just getting started.

Our mission is simple: make it easier for teams to create meaningful moments together.

We’re a sister-founded team based in San Francisco. We move fast, care deeply, and genuinely enjoy working together—whether that’s running a complex offsite or hosting a Friendsgiving at the Nowadays house.

We believe the best teams:

• Take ownership
• Stay scrappy
• Celebrate wins (big and small)
• Enjoy building and hanging out together

Recent team moments include flying trapeze, steak-offs at home, hauling a Christmas tree to the office, post-launch spa days, and racing an Ironman Relay.

This is a zero-to-one operations role.

You’ll take messy, fast-moving workflows and turn them into systems that are simple, teachable, and scalable—without losing the human care that defines Nowadays.

You’ll sit at the intersection of ops, product, engineering, and customers, helping the company move faster and cleaner as we scale.

• Own events end-to-end, including clear, on-brand written and verbal client communication
• Own and evolve the full operational flow—from first request to post-event wrap
• Act as the point person for triaging urgent vs. non-urgent ops issues
• Turn tribal knowledge into clear documentation, onboarding materials, and reusable templates

• Build scalable playbooks for:
• Running a single complex event start-to-finish
• Managing many events in parallel
• Partner closely with engineering to:
• Translate customer feedback and bugs into clear product requirements
• Help test, validate, and refine tools before launch
• Create and maintain internal resources, including:
• Ops onboarding docs (for interns, new hires, and even devs)
• Client-facing guides and planning templates

• A client-first mindset, with the understanding that this can sometimes mean late nights or weekend work
• Ability to juggle multiple workstreams and prioritize quickly
• Strong instinct for turning complexity into clarity
• Deep care for process, without sacrificing momentum
• Extreme attention to detail
• Comfort working across ops, product, engineering, sales, and clients
• Clear, thoughtful communication and strong judgment
• Enjoyment in building systems other people can run
• Desire to shape how a company operates, not just follow a playbook

• Zero-to-one startup experience
• Experience owning client relationships end-to-end
• Strong intuition for customer experience and boundaries
• Experience writing clear tickets in tools like Linear or Jira
• Comfort with basic SQL or data analysis for operational questions
• Comfort using AI and automation tools to replace manual, repetitive work

Compensation: $90K–$130K base + 0.25%–1% equity (flexible by experience)

Location: In-person, San Francisco

Perks:

• Free lunch + dinner
• Quarterly team offsites (yes, including the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand)
• Monthly fitness stipend
• Health insurance
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Generous PTO + required recharge time
• High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
• Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences

At Nowadays, we are building an end-to-end platform for planning corporate events that combines modern web infrastructure with applied AI to solve real, high-stakes operational problems.

Our core stack includes:

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js

Backend: Node.js and Python for APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines

Data: PostgreSQL with SQL-heavy workflows and analytics-driven product decisions

Infrastructure: Serverless and cloud-native architecture with modern CI/CD and production monitoring

AI: LLM-powered systems for information extraction, pricing intelligence, negotiation support, and decision workflows

Hard and interesting problems we are solving:

Turning unstructured inputs such as emails, PDFs, proposals, and contracts into clean, structured, decision-ready data

Building AI systems that planners trust through explainable outputs, human-in-the-loop workflows, and enterprise-grade reliability

Designing fast, intuitive UIs for complex financial and logistical data including rates, attrition, concessions, budgets, and timelines

Scaling from scrappy zero-to-one features to systems that support global enterprises planning hundreds of events per year

Making real-world coordination across venues, vendors, travel, budgets, and stakeholders feel as smooth as modern software

As a Founding Engineer, you will own systems end-to-end, from product design to architecture decisions to production deployment. You will help define our engineering culture, tooling, and technical roadmap while working directly with the founders to ship quickly and build software people rely on to bring teams together in real life.