Special Projects and New Ventures, Founder's Office

Laminar; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Disability

Transportation benefit

Health and Wellness benefit

401k with employer matching

Equity

Competitive salary and bonus

Greentown Labs network

Team events and Lunch & Learns

Job summary

Laminar is seeking a results-driven leader to identify and launch new ventures, working directly with the founders to test economics and drive initiatives from concept through launch. The role emphasizes owning ventures across verticals, defining milestones, and shaping the company’s growth strategy.

You will recruit initial teams and collaborate with engineering and commercial leaders to deliver measurable outcomes, while supporting planning and fundraising with rigorous financial analysis.

Qualifications

• A track record of launching a business, function, product, or program.
• Strong commercial judgment with financial fluency; able to recruit and lead across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize new ventures across industries, geographies, partnerships and offerings.
• Build business cases, define milestones, and recommend capital/headcount.
• Launch initiatives such as advisory offerings for major customers.
• Recruit initial teams and collaborate with engineering and commercial leaders to deliver results.
• Contribute to planning and fundraising through financial analysis of new initiatives.
• Scale or terminate initiatives based on results and transfer ownership when needed.

Skills

Launch a business

Commercial judgment

Financial fluency

Leadership across disciplines

Job description

The Role

Build the capabilities and businesses that expand Laminar’s reach. Working directly with the founders, you’ll identify promising opportunities, test their economics, and lead them from concept through launch.

What You Will Own

• Prioritize new ventures across industry verticals, geographies, partnerships, and customer offerings
• Build business cases, define milestones, and recommend capital and headcount commitments
• Launch initiatives such as an expert‑advisory offering for major manufacturing customers
• Recruit initial teams and work with engineering and commercial leaders to deliver results
• Contribute to company planning and fundraising through financial analysis and evidence from new initiatives
• Scale, revise, or stop initiatives based on results, then lead them permanently or transfer ownership

What You’ll Bring

A record of launching a business, function, product, or program. You combine commercial judgment with financial fluency and can recruit and lead people across disciplines.

Your opportunity

Build a portfolio of launches or grow into a GM mandate for a business you establish.

Benefits

• Direct impact on product and culture.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Equity
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
• Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for growth and professional development.
• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.
• Transportation benefit for your commute
• A team that celebrates together from rooftop lunches, ping pong matches, Lunch & Learns, and regular team events

Learn How We Think

• Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
• How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
• Customer story: Unilever uses Laminar precision automation to cut time & water usage

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

• Phone screen with Laminar HR/Recruiter (15-20 minutes)
• Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
• On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.
• Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder’s Interview in-person

Final steps

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager.

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Our pay ranges are established per Pave Compensation Software. We’re also proud to offer equity in our fast-growing startup and one of the most comprehensive benefits packages among startups at our stage. Laminar pays 100% of the individual health insurance premium for HMO medical, vision, and dental, offers flexible PTO, a $90/month transportation benefit, a $65/month health and wellness benefit, FSA, 12 company-paid holidays, an employer-matching 401(k) (unheard of at this stage!), and Greentown Labs membership, among other valuable resources. (*subject to change)