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COO
Terranova
Berkeley, USA
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
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About Terranova
Backed by leading deep tech VCs, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods. Our mission is to preserve the built environment, create new habitats, and usher in an era of abundance. Our work supports climate resilience, disaster recovery, housing development, and defense across the United States and beyond.
We’re assembling a world-class team that wants to work on something real, physical, and civilization-scale. If you want your work to reshape the world (literally), this is the place to do it.
What to Expect
We are looking for a COO or a VP Operations who can function as a true company operator: owning execution across engineering, field operations, manufacturing, recruiting, finance, customer delivery, and internal systems. This person will lead from the front, run an extremely tight operating cadence, and make sure the hundreds of things required to keep projects moving actually get done.
This is a cofounder-level role at a very early company. The upside is meaningful equity, extreme ownership, and the chance to help build one of the defining hard-tech companies of the next decade. The downside is real: long hours, high intensity, ambiguity, and a team that expects leaders to earn authority through competence.
Key Responsibilities
- Own company-wide execution across engineering, operations, deployments, hiring, finance, procurement, legal coordination, and customer delivery.
- Build and run the operating system of the company: weekly cadence, project plans, dashboards, accountability loops, and decision-making processes.
- Manage and motivate a high-intensity technical team while earning credibility with engineers, field operators, and founders.
- Drive field deployments from planning through completion, ensuring projects do not slip because of logistics, staffing, materials, permitting, vendors, or customer coordination.
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