Strategy & Operations, Founder's Office

The Role
Work directly with Laminar’s founders to connect financial insight with the decisions that shape the company. You’ll own the operating model, help determine where capital goes, and play a central role in the next fundraise, while getting directly involved in building new initiatives.

What You Will Own

- Turn company priorities into operating plans, budgets, and hiring decisions grounded in deployment economics

- Build and launch strategic initiatives, from an expert-advisory offering to new markets and partnerships

- Develop financial models and performance reporting that guide resource allocation

- Partner with the founders on fundraising strategy, investor materials, and diligence

- Recruit initial teams and lead initiatives until they have a permanent owner

What You’ll Bring

Experience in startup operations, consulting, finance, or investing, with evidence that you’ve built something and made it work. You’re analytically strong, comfortable working across technical and commercial teams, and willing to take responsibility through execution.

Your opportunity

Build a broad operating mandate, with room to lead a function or business as Laminar grows.

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

- Work with real recognition: 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and ABInBev, and more

- 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 (https://runlaminar.com/blog/fabrication-journey)

- How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech (https://runlaminar.com/blog/ai-climate-tech)

- Customer story: Unilever uses Laminar precision automation to cut time & water usage (https://runlaminar.com/case-studies/unilever-laminar-clean-in-place-optimization)

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
1. Phone screen with Laminar Head of Ops or Recruiter (15-20 minutes)
2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)
3. 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.
4. 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
 
A recent study from LinkedIn showed that most women apply to jobs only when they meet 100% of the requirements, whereas men will hit the apply button if they hit 60%. Laminar is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. So, to the women and nonbinary folks out there feeling unsure if you're a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply! If you're ready to play a key role in scaling a game-changing company that’s transforming the industrial sector and advancing sustainability, we want to hear from you!
 
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