AIM

AIM

Chief Operating Officer

Seattle · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 137 days ago
BudgetingLogisticsCustomer SuccessRoboticsLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • As the COO, you will be the architect of AIM's scaling engine.
  • If you require a step-by-step manual, this isn't the role for you.
  • If you define the manual, you belong at AIM.

Responsibilities

  • Organizational Design: Scale the team from its current high-growth phase to a global industrial leader.
  • Revenue, OEM, Channel Strategy: Own the commercial operating model across all 3 layers of the business, including with global OEM and distribution partners.
  • Set channel strategy, negotiate partner structure, and ensure distribution scales in line with AIM's deployment roadmap.
  • High-Bar Hiring: Lead HR to land and retain the world's top talent - scaling AIM's existing strong talent and culture.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of executive leadership experience in high-growth technology or industrial sectors.
  • Expertise in Deep Tech Operations - scaling products with hardware components, Legal/Contracting, and Finance (Sales & Revenue ownership, P&L management).
  • Experience with dual-use (defense/commercial) technology or complex global supply chains.
  • Run your workstreams with the largest degree of autonomy
  • Direct the operational logistics required to reshape terrain for defense units and industrial giants-ensuring AIM's physical AI whole product has the structural support to succeed in the field.
  • You are trusted to make high-stakes decisions across Customer success, HR, Legal, and Finance.
  • Terraforming Operations: Direct the operational logistics required to reshape terrain for defense units and industrial giants-ensuring AIM's physical AI whole product has the structural support to succeed in the field.

Nice to have

  • You have a proven track record as a COO or high-level Operations executive in a high-growth startup (Deep Tech, Robotics, or Aerospace preferred).
  • The Scaler: You have a proven track record as a COO or high-level Operations executive in a high-growth startup (Deep Tech, Robotics, or Aerospace preferred).

Company info

  • Everything humanity depends on is mined, dug, or grown.
  • At AIM, we are building the autonomous linchpin of civilization.
  • We transform heavy machinery-bulldozers, loaders, excavators-into AI-powered fleets that operate continuously, safely, and at peak performance in the world's harshest environments.
  • AIM runs production mines, large scale infrastructure builds, and defense operations as a TRL9 hardened system, not a science experiment.
  • Built by engineers from mining, construction, Waymo, SpaceX, Google and Tesla, AIM enables scalable earthmoving, turbocharging the global economy's physical foundation.
  • AIM is backed by some of the most sophisticated capital in the world, including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Elad Gil, Human Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis, DCVC.
  • You will run the operational backbone of the company, and lead AIM's operations through rapid growth.
  • Ensure customers achieve targets, turning successful deployments into long-term, compounding partnerships.
  • Foster a dual-use mindset-balancing the agility of tech with the rigor and safety requirements of heavy industry and defense.
  • Safety & Productivity: Ensure customers achieve targets, turning successful deployments into long-term, compounding partnerships.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Legal & Compliance: Provide strategic direction to the Head of Legal on regulatory priorities, export control posture, partnership and OEM strategy, ensuring legal is structured as a business accelerant

This listing is sourced directly from AIM's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.