AI Operations Manager, Emma

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 int...