Gradientrobotics
Business Operations Lead
San Francisco
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Full-Stack DevelopmentOperations ManagementSupply ChainLogisticsVendor ManagementCadenceRoboticsLeadership
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About the role
- This is intentionally a broad founding role.
- You'll touch nearly every part of the business, which means real ownership and room to grow quickly.
- The impact is significant- you'll free up the founders' time and attention for the highest-leverage work, while making sure nothing operational falls through the cracks.
Responsibilities
- Own finance operations: payments, billing and renewals, monthly reporting, and expense management
- Own company metrics and operating cadence: dashboards, KPIs, and the reporting rhythm for founders
- Own vendor and supplier management: quotes, purchase orders, delivery timelines, and ongoing supplier relationships, including international suppliers
- Own facilities and office operations: leases, insurance, buildout projects, utilities, food, and day-to-day upkeep
- Be an extension of the founders: drive meeting follow-through, maintain key relationships, coordinate team offsites and customer/investor visits, and support the leadership team on legal, fundraising, and other high-priority operational initiatives alongside investors and outside counsel.
- Build automated systems so recurring work runs without a human chasing it, and document everything you build
- Relentless closer: nothing you own goes delinquent, no thread goes dark, no commitment gets missed
- Systems-minded: your instinct after doing something twice is to automate or document it
- you'll see a recurring headache, build a system to fix it, and document it so it never needs to be solved twice.
Requirements
- 5+ years in business operations, chief of staff, or operations management roles, ideally as the operational number two at a fast-moving startup
- Track record of owning multiple operational functions at once (finance, people, facilities, or vendor management) and running them without oversight
Nice to have
- Experience at a hardware, robotics, or manufacturing company
- Experience with import/supply chain logistics
Benefits
- Own people operations: payroll, benefits, onboarding, equity paperwork, and HR compliance
- Trusted with sensitive information (payroll, equity, banking) and comfortable holding full internal access with discretion
Company info
- The datacenter buildout is the largest industrial project in human history.
- Gradient builds the autonomous robots that make it possible.
- Partnered with the world's largest AI infrastructure companies and backed by the industry's best investors, we move fast and build full-stack systems that matter.
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