Strategy & Operations, Founder's Office
Somerville, MA at a glance
- Rent
- #4 of 51$3,040/mo+42% vs US avg
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- #15 of 51181 mild days0 hot · 100 cold
- Income tax
- #8 of 519% top rateMassachusetts
What you need
- Experience in startup operations, consulting, finance, or investing
- Proven track record of building and executing initiatives
- Strong analytical skills across technical and commercial domains
- Comfortable collaborating with technical and commercial teams
- Willingness to take ownership through execution
What you'll do
- Translate company priorities into operating plans, budgets, hiring
- Build and launch strategic initiatives (expert advisory, new markets)
- Develop financial models and performance reporting for resource allocation
- Partner with founders on fundraising strategy and investor materials
- Recruit and lead initial teams until permanent owners in place
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
Work directly with Laminar’s founders to decide where we invest and build the capabilities that take us toward $100M in revenue. You’ll combine financial judgment with hands-on execution, taking important initiatives from an initial idea to a functioning part of the business.
What You Will Own
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.
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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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