COO

Starflow; Stavanger; On-site; NOK 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Starflow is building a seamless platform uniting solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and the grid. This COO role starts from scratch and scales across the Nordics and Europe, shaping the operations that support customers from order to support.

You will lead end-to-end operations, collaborate with product, engineering and commercial teams, and actively build the team as we grow. The role demands hands-on execution and strategic leadership in a rapidly evolving energy-tech environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience taking physical hardware products into production.
• Strong understanding of sourcing, supply chains and manufacturing.
• Experience developing operations in a changing environment.
• Sound financial judgement and understanding of unit economics.
• Experience with energy technology, power electronics, batteries, solar, EV charging or connected hardware is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Take our platform from prototype to series production with a contract manufacturer, including the handover from engineering.
• Build Starflow’s Operations function end to end: the team, the technical solutions and the external partners we rely on, so customers and installers experience one Starflow from order to support.
• Source and qualify suppliers for critical components and negotiate and follow up agreements with our manufacturing and component partners.
• Build supply chain, logistics and a delivery plan across launch markets, based on real capacity and lead times.
• Work closely with finance on cost per unit, capital and cash flow.
• The aim is to bring enough structure for reliable execution while giving product, design, and engineering room to create.

Skills

Hardware production

Sourcing & supply chain

Operations development

Financial judgement

Energy tech (plus)

Tools

Job description

Build and scale the company's operations from scratch, taking physical hardware products from prototype to series production across Europe.

• Hands-on experience taking physical hardware products into production
• Strong understanding of sourcing, supply chains, and manufacturing
• Experience developing operations in a changing environment
• Sound financial judgement and understanding of unit economics
• Experience with energy tech, power electronics, batteries, solar, or EV charging is a plus
• Broad operational responsibility to shape a home-energy experience
• A collaborative leadership team that works actively on how they function together

Make clean energy the obvious choice

Chief Operating Officer – Starflow

We’re building a seamless platform that brings together solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers, and the grid. It’s designed to become the heart of the modern home, monitoring, managing and optimizing energy use automatically.

We’re a design-led team in Stavanger and Oslo, on a mission to make clean energy the obvious choice. And we’re growing, with people who are hands‑on, curious and at their best when not everything is figured out.

Now we’re looking for a COO to build the operations that get what we’re building into people’s homes. Most of this has not been built yet. You will build it from scratch, do much of the work yourself at first, and grow the team as we scale across the Nordics and Europe. The decisions made in the first year will shape how Starflow operates for years.

The role

You’ll sit in the leadership team and work closely with the CEO and colleagues across product, engineering and commercial. You’ll help set direction, then get involved in the details needed to move work forward.

You will:

Take our platform from prototype to series production with a contract manufacturer, including the handover from engineering.

Build Starflow’s Operations function end to end: the team, the technical solutions and the external partners we rely on, so customers and installers experience one Starflow from order to support.

Source and qualify suppliers for critical components and negotiate and follow up agreements with our manufacturing and component partners.

Build supply chain, logistics and a delivery plan across launch markets, based on real capacity and lead times.

Work closely with finance on cost per unit, capital and cash flow.

The aim is to bring enough structure for reliable execution while giving product, design, and engineering room to create.

What you bring

Hands-on experience taking physical hardware products into production.

A strong understanding of sourcing, supply chains and manufacturing.

Experience developing operations in a changing environment.

Sound financial judgement, including an understanding of costs and unit economics.

A collaborative leadership style grounded in curiosity, trust and good reasoning.

Experience with energy technology, power electronics, batteries, solar, EV charging or connected hardware is a plus. We value the decisions you’ve made and the results you’ve owned more than titles or a particular degree.

Life @ Starflow

At Starflow, design isn’t just how the product looks and feels. It’s how we think, how we make decisions, and how we come together as a team. We slow down enough to ask the right questions before chasing solutions. We create clarity first, knowing it leads to speed and confidence later.

We call this the Flow process. It’s our shared rhythm, and it’s the reason work here feels deliberate rather than frantic. Our CEO says it can feel like chewing glass. It isn’t always comfortable, and slowing down when you want to act rarely is. But it’s what keeps us moving in the same direction.

The same goes for how we lead. The leadership team sets development goals for itself, not just for the company. We make time to work on how we function together, and we bring in outside eyes to tell us what we can’t see ourselves. You’ll be part of that from your first week.

You’ll sit in that team alongside people who have taken hardware from idea to market before and know what it takes to scale. Decisions are made together, and you’ll shape not just what Operations does, but how Starflow works.

Interested?

This is an opportunity to take broad operational responsibility and help shape a more intuitive home-energy experience. Applications are reviewed continuously.

• Operational Excellence

About Starflow

Starflow is building a seamless platform that brings together solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers, and the grid. At the core is a smart hybrid inverter — designed to become the central control unit of the modern home, capable of monitoring, managing, and optimizing energy use automatically.

With advanced hardware and open software architecture, the system will adapt to each home in real time. It’s being developed to help lower energy bills, enable storage and bring everything together in one intuitive interface. Easy to install, built to last, and ready for the energy needs of tomorrow.

Clean energy, made effortless. Quiet in presence. Powerful in action. Fully in sync with how we want to live. We’re building what energy should feel like. And this is just the beginning