Strategic Deployment & Engagement Ops Lead

physicalintelligence; San Francisco (CA); Vor Ort; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Physical Intelligence is seeking a Deployment & Engagement Operations Lead to manage external engagements and deployments from kickoff to completion, coordinating with partnerships, research, hardware, and infrastructure teams. This role will own the operational scope, staffing plans, and site requirements, while maintaining strong partner relationships and on-site execution at deployment sites.

You will translate partner commitments into execution plans, lead multi-team engagements, and build

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience in program management, field operations, technical project management, or similar roles.
• Experience launching and running physical operations, such as opening new sites, markets, or facilities, leading hardware deployments, or running on-site programs for enterprise customers.
• Experience owning delivery of external partners or customer programs end to end.
• Experience staffing and leading teams across shifts and locations.
• Ability to quickly understand technical goals and work through tradeoffs with researchers, engineers, and external partners.
• Strong judgment under pressure, including knowing when to elevate and when to push back on commitments we cannot keep.
• Willingness to travel frequently and work extended stretches on site.

Aufgaben

• Own operational scope, resourcing, and execution for external engagements and deployments, from kickoff through completion.
• Translate partner commitments into execution plans that define milestones, owners, staffing, robot allocation, and site requirements.
• Lead complex, long-running engagements involving multiple teams, evolving requirements, and significant operational responsibility.
• Build trusted relationships with partner stakeholders and work through their requirements, approvals, schedules, and site constraints.
• Stand up new sites, bringing together operators, fleet support, equipment, logistics, and site access.
• Plan staffing and coverage across robots, shifts, and locations, and step in directly on site when needed.
• Drive readiness ahead of key milestones, including dry runs, bring-up checks, inventory, and fleet and infrastructure coverage.
• Prioritize and allocate robots, people, and support across concurrent engagements, and flag when a commitment needs to change.
• Keep partners, researchers, and leadership aligned on status, risks, escalations, and decisions.
• Build repeatable playbooks and processes, and grow the team that carries them forward as the work scales.

Kenntnisse

Program management

Field operations

Technical PM

Staffing across shifts

Partner engagement

On-site deployments

Site access management

Risk management

Travel willingness

Jobbeschreibung

Physical Intelligence is seeking a Deployment & Engagement Operations Lead to manage external engagements and deployments from kickoff to completion, coordinating with partnerships, research, hardware, and infrastructure teams. This role will own the operational scope, staffing plans, and site requirements, while maintaining strong partner relationships and on-site execution at deployment sites.

You will translate partner commitments into execution plans, lead multi-team engagements, and build