
Job Description
This is a high-impact leadership role suited to someone who enjoys solving complex problems, building organisations, and helping ambitious businesses navigate periods of rapid growth. You will be trusted with some of the company's most important priorities and will help shape what Beyond Reach Labs becomes over the coming years.
The Role
We're looking for an experienced operator with a proven track record of driving execution within growing organisations. You will act as a force multiplier for the founders, helping ensure that critical initiatives are delivered, decisions are implemented, and the business continues to scale effectively.
You should be equally comfortable discussing long-term growth strategy, improving operational processes, supporting key customer relationships, and rolling up your sleeves to solve immediate challenges.
Responsibilities
Strategic Planning & Growth
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Partner with the founders to define and execute the company's strategic priorities
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Support long-term planning, organisational development, and growth initiatives
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Track key objectives and ensure delivery against critical milestones
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Translate strategic ambitions into actionable delivery plans
Operational Leadership
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Build and improve the systems, structures, and processes that enable scale
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Drive operational excellence across the business
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Create management reporting and performance tracking mechanisms
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Identify organisational risks and develop mitigation strategies
Cross-Functional Execution
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Lead company-wide initiatives that span multiple teams and disciplines
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Ensure effective coordination between engineering, operations, commercial, and leadership functions
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Remove blockers and help teams maintain momentum
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Drive accountability and follow-through across strategic priorities
Customer & Stakeholder Delivery
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Support delivery of major client engagements and strategic partnerships
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Represent the company with customers, investors, and external stakeholders when appropriate
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Help ensure operational and delivery commitments are consistently achieved
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Strengthen processes that improve customer outcomes as the organisation grows
Organisational Development
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Support workforce planning and organisational design
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Help build management capability across the company
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Foster alignment, accountability, and transparency
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Lead initiatives that strengthen company culture during periods of growth
Leadership Partnership
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Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the founders
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Lead special projects that are critical to the success of the business
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Help ensure leadership time is focused on the highest-impact activities
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Support board, investor, and executive-level planning activities
What We're Looking For
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10+ years of experience in operations, strategy, consulting, programme leadership, or executive management
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Proven experience scaling teams, organisations, or complex programmes
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Strong strategic thinking and commercial judgement
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Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
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Experience driving organisational change and operational improvement
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Ability to influence without relying solely on formal authority
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Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure from scratch
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Strong leadership presence combined with a willingness to be hands-on
Nice to Have
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Experience in aerospace, manufacturing, engineering, or deep-tech environments
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Experience working directly with founders, CEOs, or executive leadership teams
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Experience supporting fundraising, investor engagement, or corporate growth initiatives
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MBA or equivalent advanced business qualification
Why Beyond Reach Labs
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Help shape the future of a pioneering space infrastructure company
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Work directly alongside the founders on the company's most important challenges
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Significant autonomy, responsibility, and influence
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Opportunity to build and scale the operational foundations of a category-defining business
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Join a mission-driven team working on technology that will transform what is possible in space
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Job Details
- Category
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Posted
- Compensation
- $150,000 - $200,000 per year
About Beyond Reach Labs
At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.
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