Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer

Location: San Francisco, California

Company: Confidential climate robotics / infrastructure technology compan

yAbout the Compan

y
Our client is building intelligent robotic systems for large-scale climate resilience and infrastructure protection. Their technology enables physical transformation of land and coastal environments, supporting flood defense, wetland restoration, disaster recovery, critical infrastructure protection, and future habitat creatio

n.
Backed by leading climate technology and frontier technology investors, the company is tackling one of the hardest categories in technology: building sophisticated robotic systems that operate in the real world, while also selling into complex, high-stakes markets across infrastructure, government, climate resilience, and defense-adjacent custome

rs.
This is a company for people who want to build something physical, mission-critical, and civilization-sc

ale.
The

RoleThe company is hiring a Chief Operating Officer to build and lead the operating system that allows the business to scale from breakthrough technology into repeatable deployment, delivery, and commercial execu

tion.
This is a senior, company-building role for someone who can operate across strategy, operations, deployment, customer delivery, partnerships, and internal execution. The right person will be equally comfortable turning ambiguity into structure, working with technical teams on hard physical systems, and helping the company sell and deliver something that is both hard to build and hard to

sell.
You will work closely with the founders and leadership team to translate ambitious commercial and technical goals into operational r

eality.
Key Responsi

• bilitiesOwn and scale core business operations across deployment, customer delivery, internal processes, and strategic init
• iatives.Build the operational infrastructure required to take complex robotic systems from prototype or early deployment into repeatable field ex
• ecution.Partner with engineering, product, hardware, field operations, and commercial teams to ensure the company can reliably deliver in real-world envir
• onments.Drive strategic planning, company priorities, operating cadence, metrics, and cross-functional ex
• ecution.Support the commercialization of a technically complex product sold into challenging markets such as infrastructure, climate resilience, government, utilities, disaster recovery, construction, or defense-adjacent
• sectors.Create scalable systems for project delivery, customer onboarding, field execution, procurement, vendor management, and operational risk man
• agement.Lead high-priority strategic initiatives on behalf of the CEO/founders, especially where technical complexity and commercial ambiguity
• overlap.Help build the playbook for selling, deploying, and supporting a category-defining physical tec
• hnology.Recruit, manage, and develop a high-performing operations team as the company
• scales.Act as a senior problem-solver across the business, bringing structure, urgency, and judgment to complex operational cha

llenges.
Ideal B

• ackground
  Experience in a senior operations, strategy & operations, business operations, deployment, general management, or chief-of-staff-style role at a high-growth technolog
• y company.Background in deeptech, robotics, hardware, climate technology, infrastructure technology, industrial automation, construction technology, aerospace, defense technology, energy, or another complex physical-world technology environment is strongly
• preferred.Experience joining a business at Seed stage and flying them to Series A/B
• and beyondStrong ability to work with technical teams building complex systems, even if not personally an
• engineer.Track record of helping scale a business where both the product and the go-to-market motion are difficult, ambiguous, or non
• -standard.Experience selling, deploying, or operationalizing products for enterprise, government, infrastructure, industrial, or other complex customers is a st
• rong plus.Commercially sharp, operationally rigorous, and comfortable operating close to the
• founders.Able to move between high-level strategy and hands-on execution wi