Operations

Kovari; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kovari in San Francisco is seeking an operations leader to own the company’s operational backbone. You’ll coordinate logistics, manage vendors, and help scale internal tooling as we deploy hardware in live environments.

You’ll drive recruiting, oversee expenses and shop floor operations, and ensure founders feel that everything is under control while you tackle the next challenge.

Qualifications

• End-to-end ownership with minimal direction.
• Context-switching between spreadsheets, vendor calls, and hands-on tasks.
• Strong written and verbal communication with partners, candidates, and investors.
• Bonus: hospitality, hardware, or deployment-heavy experience.
• Bonus: ability to build lightweight internal tools or web apps.

Responsibilities

• Own logistics and coordination across hardware shipments, vendor relationships, and field deployments.
• Drive recruiting operations — sourcing, scheduling, offer logistics, onboarding.
• Manage finances at the operational level: expenses, invoices, reimbursements, bookkeeping coordination.
• Keep facilities and shop operations running — supplies, equipment, safety, organization.
• Build internal processes and tooling as the company scales.
• Support business development and investor communications when needed.
• Identify gaps before they become problems and fix them without being asked.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Multi-tasking

Communication

Vendor management

Operations management

Job description

About Kovari

At Kovari, we’re rethinking how physical work gets done in the age of robotics. We believe building robots that can move the economy is one of the most important endeavors in technology.

Our first goal is to build general-purpose robots for hospitality — taking on the physical, repetitive work that keeps the industry operating. The last mile problem for proliferating useful robots into businesses is a first-class innovation problem itself. We marry deep commercial understanding with fast-paced engineering to create robots that move the industry. Since inception, we’ve raised over $6M from industry-leading investors to carry out that mission.

We are obsessed with rapid iteration, engineering rigor, and deploying real machines into real environments. The next decade will compress a century of progress in robotics. We’re looking for people who want to leave their fingerprints on that future.

We are based in San Francisco and work in-person.

The Role

Kovari runs fast. We build hardware, deploy it into live environments, manage vendors, hire people, and ship internal tooling — often all in the same week. This role exists to make sure none of that falls through the cracks.

You will own the operational backbone of the company. No single function, no narrow lane. You’ll touch hiring, logistics, vendor management, finance, facilities, and whatever else needs an owner. The best version of this person makes the founders feel like things are handled — and then goes looking for the next problem.

What You’ll Do

• Own logistics and coordination across hardware shipments, vendor relationships, and field deployments
• Drive recruiting operations — sourcing, scheduling, offer logistics, onboarding
• Manage finances at the operational level: expenses, invoices, reimbursements, bookkeeping coordination
• Keep facilities and shop operations running — supplies, equipment, safety, organization
• Build internal processes and tooling as the company scales
• Support business development and investor communications when needed
• Identify gaps before they become problems and fix them without being asked

What You Bring

• Proven ability to own things end-to-end with minimal direction
• Comfortable context-switching between spreadsheets, vendor calls, and hands-on tasks in the same day
• Strong written and verbal communication — you’ll interface with partners, candidates, and investors
• Bonus: experience in hospitality, hardware, or deployment-heavy industries
• Bonus: ability to build lightweight web apps or internal tools

Values

• Pace of learning trumps everything else
• We relentlessly refine our craft
• Low ego, high ownership
• We work in-person and this isn’t a 9-to-5 — we’re building something hard and need people who are all-in