VP of Ops

The role

This person will own execution across engineering, field operations, manufacturing, recruiting, finance, customer delivery, and internal systems. They will build the company operating system and manage technical teams to drive field deployments.

What you will do

• 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 including weekly cadence, project plans, dashboards, accountability loops, and decision-making processes.
• Manage and motivate a high-intensity technical team.
• Drive field deployments from planning through completion.
• Work directly with the CEO to support fundraising, board communication, strategic planning, and company priorities.
• Support GTM and customer execution across various stakeholders.
• Recruit, evaluate, and help close exceptional talent.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Strong comfort with customers, investors, board members, vendors, and government / defense stakeholders.
• Willingness to work on-site in Berkeley, CA.
• U.S. work authorization.

Nice to have

• 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.
• Strong finance, strategic planning, and fundraising fluency.
• Has built or run something real in robotics, aerospace, defense, infrastructure, construction tech, or complex hardware.
• Comes from a flagship deep tech company, an Elon-founded company, or a serious venture-backed hardware company.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity

Before you apply

• We cannot sponsor H-1B visas at this time.

About the company

Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself, including lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting infrastructure. The company is backed by leading deep tech VCs.