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Special Projects and New Ventures, Founder's Office

LaminarBusiness & FinanceOperations
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What you need

  • Record of launching business, function, product, or program
  • Commercial judgment with financial fluency
  • Recruit and lead cross-disciplinary teams
  • Business case development and capital allocation
  • Fundraising and financial analysis experience

What you'll do

  • Prioritize new ventures across verticals, geographies, partnerships
  • Build business cases, define milestones, recommend capital/headcount
  • Launch initiatives like expert-advisory offerings for manufacturers
  • Recruit initial teams, collaborate with engineering/commercial leaders
  • Contribute to company planning and fundraising via financial analysis

Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys novel sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively. 

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.


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
  • 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
  • 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
    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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    About Laminar

    Laminar (Formerly H2Ok Innovations) is transforming how food and beverage factories run by using its in-line sensors and turnkey AI solution to unlock lost production time. Laminar’s patented spectral sensors continuously monitor fluid signatures to optimize Clean-In-Place (CIP), product changeovers, and prevent costly errors before they cause downtime. Our AI solution absorbs expert intuition into machine learning models and helps manufacturers instantly run faster, cleaner, and more profitably. Deployed in factories across six continents and trusted by global leaders like AB InBev, Coca-Cola, and Unilever, Laminar is redefining what it means to unlock your faster factory. Learn more about Laminar at runlaminar.com.

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