Deployment Manager

HIVE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hive is expanding its UK deployments in Physical AI, delivering autonomous machine deployments across industrial sites. This role leads end-to-end customer deployments, coordinating engineering, operations, and site readiness with a hands-on approach at customer sites.

You will define deployment playbooks, drive risk management, and ensure safe, on-time handovers while scaling Hive’s UK deployment practices and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex deployments in industrial/field/customer environments.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of deployments, commissioning or operational projects.
• Excellent planning, coordination and execution skills.
• Comfortable coordinating technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on mentality with changing priorities.
• Strong safety mindset.
• Willingness to travel extensively across the UK.
• Professional fluency in English and authorization to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Own UK customer deployments from kickoff through handover.
• Build and maintain the integrated deployment plan across people, machines, hardware, software, logistics, site readiness and dependencies.
• Establish milestones, owners, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Drive execution and raise risks before they become delivery problems.
• Ensure deployments are delivered safely, on time and to the expected quality.
• Coordinate infrastructure, connectivity, machines, operating areas and safety requirements at client sites.
• Lead on-site deployment activities with Hive Engineering and Operations.
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, testing, validation and acceptance activities.

Skills

Project management

End-to-end ownership

Planning & coordination

Stakeholder management

Safety mindset

Travel flexibility

English fluency

Job description

At Hive, we're building the defining physical AI platform of the next decade.

Industrial labor is one of the most acute bottlenecks in the global economy. Operators are expensive, hard to retain, and working in environments that are increasingly unsafe. The shortage is structural. The window to solve it is now.

Our answer is a machine-agnostic intelligence platform that lets any machine, on any site, perceive, decide, and act autonomously. One platform. Any machine. No fleet replacement.

Already live across multiple sites and customers in Europe - spanning logistics and warehousing, industrial manufacturing, and large-scale chemical production - with a US expansion underway.

The vision: one operator managing hundreds of machines simultaneously. Productive machine-hour cost dropping by 80x, and unlocks the next productivity revolution in physical work.

The mission is to make productivity limitless. Come and help us build it.

The Role

As Deployment Manager, you will own the end-to-end delivery of customer deployments in the UK, from delivery kickoff through commissioning, validation, go-live and operational handover.

You will coordinate customers, engineering teams, operators, equipment, logistics, site readiness and technical dependencies into one executable plan. This is a hands‑on, customer‑facing role with significant time spent at industrial sites.

As one of Hive's first deployment managers in the UK, you will also help define how we deploy at scale across the country.

What You Will Do

Own Customer Deployments End‑to‑End

• Own UK customer projects from delivery kickoff through successful operational handover.

• Build and maintain the integrated deployment plan across people, machines, hardware, software, logistics, site readiness, safety and customer dependencies.

• Establish clear milestones, owners, dependencies and acceptance criteria.

• Drive execution and raise risks before they become delivery problems.

• Ensure deployments are delivered safely, on time and to the expected quality.

Lead Site Readiness and Deployment

• Work directly with customers to prepare sites for deployment and go‑live.

• Coordinate infrastructure, connectivity, machines, operating areas, safety requirements and operational procedures.

• Lead on‑site deployment activities together with Hive Engineering and Operations.

• Coordinate installation, commissioning, testing, validation and acceptance activities.

Be the Customer’s Delivery Owner

• Act as the primary delivery counterpart for the customer.

• Maintain clear communication on progress, risks, decisions and dependencies.

• Coordinate customer stakeholders across operations, engineering, IT, HSE and management.

• Build trust through strong execution, ownership and transparency.

Coordinate Cross-Functional Execution

• Work closely with Engineering, Product, QA and Operations.

• Translate customer and site requirements into clear internal actions.

• Coordinate technical resources during deployment and drive issues to resolution.

• Balance customer urgency with safety, quality and technical readiness.

Build the UK Deployment Playbook

• Develop repeatable deployment processes, templates and checklists.

• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve how Hive deploys.

• Help define the local capabilities, suppliers, facilities and resources required as the UK business scales.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Strong experience delivering complex projects in industrial, field or customer environments.

• Proven end‑to‑end ownership of deployments, implementations, commissioning or operational projects.

• Excellent planning, coordination and execution skills.

• Comfortable coordinating technical teams and non-technical customer stakeholders.

• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management.

• Hands‑on mentality and ability to operate effectively when priorities change quickly.

• Strong safety mindset.

• Willingness to travel extensively across the UK.

• Professional fluency in English and authorization to work in the UK.

Strongly preferred

• Experience from industrial automation, robotics, autonomous systems, heavy equipment, material handling, warehousing, logistics, mining, construction, manufacturing, field engineering or field service.

• Experience working directly with industrial equipment or operational technology.

What success looks like

• Hive's first UK customer deployments are delivered safely and successfully.

• Customers have clear ownership and confidence in Hive's execution.

• Deployment risks and dependencies are identified early and actively managed.

• Operations receives a stable, documented and operationally ready service at handover.

• Hive develops a repeatable UK deployment methodology that improves with every customer.

Why Join Hive?

Join Hive at a pivotal stage as we expand into the UK and build a new category in Physical AI. You’ll work with cutting-edge autonomy technology and a highly experienced team to bring autonomous industrial machines out of development and into real-world commercial operations.

As we establish and scale our UK operations, you’ll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibility from day one, help shape how we operate in the UK, and build the playbooks for deploying and operating autonomous machines at scale..

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position may be filled before the application deadline. Early applications are encouraged. Hive values diversity and encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or background.