Senior Operations Deployment Architect

ridealso; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

One Medical

Fertility benefits

Flexible time off

401(k) match

Job summary

ALSO seeks a Senior Staff Deployment Strategist, Operations to build the operating system for moving electric vehicles from CM production to customers. You will lead architecture and influence across supply chain, manufacturing, quality, finance and commercial teams in a hands-on, no-direct-reports role.

You will design the planning engine, manage supplier coordination, and ensure seamless end-to-end execution with on-site presence in Palo Alto. Travel to contract manufacturers may be required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building operations software from zero to production.
• Daily LLM-native development with coding agents such as Claude and a method for proving model output is correct: contracts, tests, evals and review.
• Track record of rapid iteration with working software in users’ hands.
• Deep SaaS platform expertise: integrating QMS, TMS, WMS or ERP into one data platform.
• Python, SQL and API fluency, plus practical data‑integration skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally to contract manufacturers.
• Technical degree or equivalent hands‑on experience.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end visibility from factory to customer: WIP, first-pass yield, genealogy, inventory, and shipment status.
• Develop the planning engine across supply chains for materials and build/fulfillment queues.
• Manage supplier loop: PO confirmations, dates, RFQs, design changes, and pricing.
• Coordinate physical moves: booking, importation, track-and-trace from CM to 3PL to customer.
• Close the quality loop with inspections, deviations, and supplier-related charges.
• Stand up a disposable app for quality, transport and warehouse visibility.
• Model how work actually runs, remove redundant steps, and automate what survives.
• Ship with coding agents promptly and with team ownership.
• Embed with process owners to enable self-service changes.

Skills

Operations software

Supply chain software

Data model ownership

LLM development

Python

SQL

APIs

Stakeholder trust

Education

Technical degree or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Claude

Testing & evals

Job description

ALSO seeks a Senior Staff Deployment Strategist, Operations to build the operating system for moving electric vehicles from CM production to customers. You will lead architecture and influence across supply chain, manufacturing, quality, finance and commercial teams in a hands-on, no-direct-reports role.

You will design the planning engine, manage supplier coordination, and ensure seamless end-to-end execution with on-site presence in Palo Alto. Travel to contract manufacturers may be required.