VP of Ops

Key Responsibilities

• Own company-wide execution across engineering, operations, deployments, hiring, finance, procurement, legal coordination, and customer delivery.
• Build and run the operating system of the company: weekly cadence, project plans, dashboards, accountability loops, and decision-making processes.
• Manage and motivate a high-intensity technical team while earning credibility with engineers, field operators, and founders.
• Drive field deployments from planning through completion, ensuring projects do not slip due to logistics, staffing, materials, permitting, vendors, or customer coordination.
• Work directly with the CEO to support fundraising, board communication, strategic planning, and company priorities.
• Support GTM and customer execution across PE firms, developers, infrastructure owners, government agencies, USACE, and other defense-adjacent customers.
• Recruit, evaluate, and help close exceptional talent across technical, operational, and commercial roles.
• Thrive at the pace and intensity of early-stage startup life, including long days, and field hours when needed.

Requirements

• Exceptional operational judgment, intensity, and ownership.
• Experience leading strategy, operations, deployment, product, or company-building functions at a high-growth deep tech, robotics, aerospace, defense, infrastructure, or hardware startup.
• Ability to manage technical teams and make high-quality decisions around complex engineering and field operations, even without being the deepest technical expert in the room.
• Strong comfort with customers, investors, board members, vendors, and government / defense stakeholders.
• Willingness to work on-site in Berkeley, CA.
• U.S. work authorization.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Prior experience as a VP / Director / Head of Strategy or Operations at a deep tech company.
• Prior experience as a COO, CPO, CTO, VP Ops, or GM experience at a Series B or later hardware startup.
• Experience deploying products that are hard to sell and hard to build.
• Founder or founder-level operating experience.