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.