Senior Director of Operations

SR Director / VP of Operations - Deep Tech

We are partnered with a high-conviction deep tech company building at the frontier of AI infrastructure. This is the company's first dedicated senior Operations hire.

The Role

This is a company-wide operator seat, not a commercial ops, product ops, or engineering ops role. You will build and own the internal infrastructure that lets a world-class technical team scale from ~30 to 100+ without breaking. You will report directly to the CEO and serve as the operational right hand to the founding team.

What You’ll Own

• Build and run core org infrastructure from scratch: HR, legal, compliance, IT, and vendor management
• Own the company's operating cadence: OKRs, KPIs, business metrics, planning cycles, and cross-functional rhythms
• Partner directly with the CEO on strategic execution, board prep, and investor communications
• Own financial and operational planning alongside the CFO: budgeting, headcount planning, and resource allocation
• Build the hiring and onboarding engine to scale headcount rapidly post-raise
• Drive cross-functional alignment across a deeply technical engineering organization

You're a Fit If You

• Have built org infrastructure (HR, finance ops, legal, compliance, IT) from the ground up at an early-stage or high-growth technical company
• Have a technical background or enough fluency to hold your own in a room full of ML researchers, hardware architects, and engineers
• Have scaled a company through a major funding event or hypergrowth phase
• Have operated at Director, VP, or COO level with full P&L or budget ownership
• Are a proactive self-starter; you show up with the map, not waiting to be handed one
• Come from a deep tech, AI, hardware, robotics, or complex engineering company
• Do not come from a management consulting background