Country Launch Lead

The role

The Country Launch Lead takes end-to-end operational accountability for taking new geographic markets from zero to fully functional operating units. This role involves executing market assessments, establishing legal and physical infrastructure, and managing initial commercial launches and field team deployments.

What you will do

• Serve as the single point of accountability for new market expansion projects
• Execute pre-launch feasibility assessments and legal/regulatory evaluations
• Establish initial physical and legal operating infrastructure
• Recruit, onboard, and train founding local team members
• Refine, expand, and modularize the company's global expansion playbook

Required qualifications

• 5 to 8+ years of experience in operational leadership, expansion operations, corporate strategy, or general management
• Demonstrated success launching at least one international country end-to-end for a high-growth, operations-intensive company
• Direct hands-on experience building local business operations from concept to stabilization
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, autonomy, and resilience when operating in unfamiliar international environments
• Willingness to travel to target expansion regions

Nice to have

• Deep background working directly with specialized external legal firms and government authorities to resolve complex regulatory hurdles, cross-border data transfer policies, and local labor laws

About the company

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. They design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows.