Join our
brigade of chefs
Let’s give shape to AI adoption in enterprise. We are a team of high achievers who wants to build memorable things with frontier technology.
At Tela, we call ourselves chefs.
It’s a sign of mutual respect: we all cook. Every role matters, and nothing leaves the kitchen if it doesn’t make your mouth water.
Respect for the craft is only half of it.
The other half is the pace. Our kitchen doesn’t run on a fixed menu. The ingredients change every month, because the frontier of technology does.
The chefs who thrive here are the ones whose first question when something new lands is what it unlocks, not whether it’s a threat.
Two things are non-negotiable.
- You overdeliver: the ask is the floor, never the ceiling, and small surpluses compound like everything else.
- And you don’t wait to be told: waiting is a pause, and pauses reset what motion earned.
In return, you cook for the operations that move an economy, with the best engine available this month, on work that has no finish line because it isn’t a project. It’s the operation. Your craft compounds, and so do you.
Join our brigade of chefs. We’re looking for highly ambitious and talented people to cook together and drive real change.
How We Approach Work
We are a company who wants to bring change.
In order to do that we have to break the status quo, and this takes a lot of effort, a lot of convincing and a lot of results, to make others believe in the future we see.
Below are the principles we use, in order of prevalence, and what they mean to us.
1. Overdeliver
In order to bring change we understand that we need to first change the perspective on what’s possible and this requires a different kind of prioritization. We prioritize what’s relevant and go all in in that instead of prioritizing the effort within a scope to be able to broaden the scope.
Overdelivering means transcending the expectations, breaking the chains of the conventional efficiency where the bare minimum is both what is expected and what is delivered just because it’s the defensible approach. It’s hard to tell your manager you spent more time, or effort than you should have, to do something beyond what was agreed upon. The common rhetoric is: this is inefficient, we have a big backlog of things to do.
Not here. Our dishes transform the way food is perceived.
2. Unlock Scale
In order for the change we bring to have a significant effect it has to have scale. In order for the company to grow it has to have scale. In order for anything we do to have meaningful impact it has to have enough reach. In essence this means we have to think in the long term, and see the big picture.
3. Impact
In the end, change has to be impactful.
This might seem counterintuitive, but Impact is the main goal of this framework and yet it’s the last thing we do. It’s the last because the others compound it: Scale compounds it directly and Overdelivery indirectly, but we believe both to be enablers of impact. For both of the others, constant impact is the decisor.
Impact is a more straightforward metric and leaves less room for interpretation. It’s simply the metric that measures what you’re trying to do. If you’re selling, it’s revenue. If you’re making something possible, it’s the relevance of what you enabled. If you’re speeding up the team, it’s how much time you’ve saved. And if you’re contributing to the work environment, it’s how much nicer it is to work once you’ve done your contribution.
Where The Chefs Cook
Deployment Strategist
Business and engineering embedded with the client. Learn how they work, then rebuild it.
Platform
The AI operating system behind every deployment. Modular and built for the frontier.
Design
Brand, product, and design engineering. Making advanced systems feel usable and human.
Go-to-market
Building relationships with the 200 leaders shaping the economy, turning them into Tela customers.
Events
The CEO’s first surface. Small rooms, the right people, and real conversations.
Finance
Cash, contracts, and the math behind a compounding company. No surprises, just numbers.
People
Hire chefs, give feedback fast, and raise the bar every day. Build a team where people grow.
Operations
The systems, processes, and tools that keep the kitchen running. Making work simpler.
Infrastructure
The infrastructure behind every deployment. The foundation stays solid.
Security
Security as an engineering property, not a compliance checkbox. Client data stays within our systems.
Legal
The contracts, structures, and safeguards that let Tela move fast without creating unnecessary risk.
What You’ll Find Here
Stock options
Potential eligibility for a future equity plan, subject to approval and plan terms.
Setup
MacBook Pro M4 and access to the best AI tools available, all on enterprise plans.
PTO
Plan your time with autonomy, with planned time off throughout the year and no impact on your compensation.
Build the Standard
Low hierarchy, high ownership. Build what you believe in, shape our pace, and raise the bar at Tela.
How We Hire
- 1
Introduce yourself
Found an opportunity that feels right for you? Just apply and answer a few quick questions about your experience and what you’re looking for.
- 2
We get to know you
Our Talent Acquisition team takes a look at your background and, if there’s a connection with what we’re looking for.
We’ll introduce you to Tela, how we work, and the challenge behind the role.
- 3
Conversations that make sense
From there, the process depends on the role. You may have technical conversations, case studies, or discuss your experience and ways of working.
Each process is shaped around the role, and we’ll guide you every step of the way.
- 4
Transparency from start to finish
Hiring is a two-way street. You’ll always know where you are in the process, what comes next, and receive feedback along the way.
If the role isn’t the right fit right now, that’s okay. With your permission, we can keep your profile in our talent pool for future opportunities.
And you’re always welcome to apply again when you find a role that feels right.
Open Roles
No category was designed
for the AI era except ours.
