Operations & Logistics Lead

Oshen; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative startup that is revolutionizing ocean monitoring with small autonomous robots. In this dynamic role, you'll manage logistics and operations, ensuring the successful deployment of our C-Stars. You'll have the opportunity to learn across various departments and grow into a key leadership position as the company expands. If you're detail-oriented, calm under pressure, and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Help us uncover the mysteries of the ocean and drive forward our mission of global climate monitoring.

Benefits

0.2–0.5% EMI stock options

Up to 20 days/year paid travel

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Experience in logistics and operations is beneficial but not mandatory.
• Ability to handle VAT returns and battery certifications is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Organizing shipping of C-Stars worldwide and drafting VAT returns.
• Joining sea trials and managing customer newsletters.

Skills

Organisation

Detail Focus

Ownership

Fast Learning

Calm Under Pressure

Tools

Google Sheets

Mailchimp

Job description

Why this role exists

We’re a small, fast growing start-up that make constellations of small ocean monitoring robots called C-Stars. The C-Stars have just started completing long duration missions, collecting data unscathed in huge storms, and we’ve just begun a £2m project to build and deploy a large scale robot constellation into the north Atlantic for climate monitoring.

As we grow, we need help. We need someone to steer the logistics, paperwork and people that make those missions happen, and grow into the operational brain of the company.

What makes you a fit?

1. You’re relentlessly organised: friends would trust you to run the group trip.
2. You get into the details: sometimes, one typo can stop a shipment, you’re the sort of person who would catch it.
3. Independent & responsible: you’d decide to phone up and reroute a 300kg pallet at midnight if that kept a sea‑trial on schedule.
4. You learn fast: whether it’s Google Sheets formulas, lithium battery regulations or mailchimp, you enjoy picking up new skills and figuring things out quickly.
5. You're calm in chaos: We’re a hectic startup, and plans change fast - you’re good at keeping a cool head and making things happen amidst the chaos.

The Package

• £30–35k salary +0.2–0.5% EMI stock options
• Location: In person at our Plymouth waterfront office & workshop. We know many applicants might be based outside of commuting distance to Plymouth - apply and specify this if this is a major factor.
• (Optional) Up to 20days/year paid travel—sea‑trials in Sweden, demos in Lisbon, conferences in Canada

Your role at Oshen

Your work will be incredibly varied. You’ll be organizing the shipping of C-Stars worldwide, drafting VAT returns, staying on top of battery certifications, writing conference abstracts, customer newsletters, joining sea trials, shaving costs from our materials bill. We’re open to a wide range of candidates, and as such experience in these tasks isn’t essential. We expect this role will transition to either a project manager, Chief of Staff or COO as Oshen grows. If you're ambitious, over time you might take on strategic planning for a multi-million-dollar fleet deployment, lead contract negotiations with government agencies, or represent Oshen at a weather & climate summit.

Experience

We care about your ability to get things done, not shiny certificates. We’ll be hiring for the five traits listed earlier: organisation, detail focus, ownership, fast learning and calm under pressure. Experience and proof of these is what we’re looking for in the hiring process. Whether this experience came from a degree, a former ops title, or from a side project doesn’t matter to us.

Why this role?

• You’ll see the nuts and bolts of almost every part of Oshen—hardware, software, finance, customer success, you name it.
• You’ll learn how prototypes transition into a product the market pays for.
• Don't like being a tiny cog in a big machine? You'll get to design & build the entire gearbox and make sure it runs smoothly.

Why Oshen?

We’ve spotted a problem. Data steers almost every decision we make: from routing Ubers through rush‑hour traffic to telling your smartwatch when to stand up. Yet the ocean, which covers 70% of the planet, regulates our weather & climate, carries 80% of the world’s goods around the globe is still a blank spot on the map. Autonomous surface vessels exist, but nobody has cracked the next leap: tiny, low‑cost robots deployed by the thousand for always‑on, truly global monitoring.

We want to build a world where the oceans are no longer a great unknown. We're a small team that's already made our rugged C-Stars successfully navigate through storms, operate across 3 continents, provide ocean data to key institutes, and we're just getting started.

Our Hiring Process

• Apply here: https://hiring.oshendata.com/ , you'll answer three brief questions and upload your CV.
• Step 1: 15min intro call
• Step 2: Remote assessment + interview
• Final: Half day with the Oshen team (expenses covered)