Deployment Manager

Monumental http://monumental.co/ is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We’re a growing team of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and Google DeepMind. It’s still the early days of building the company, and this is a unique opportunity to be an early employee in a high-growth, high-ambition startup environment. From Day 1, you’ll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We’re explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction https://www.monumental.co/why, and learn more about our vision https://www.monumental.co/our-vision and company https://www.monumental.co/about. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOo8n19XEns. About You and This Role We’re scaling up the number of construction projects (”deployments”) and robots and humans involved and looking for extremely versatile team members who want to own all aspects of delivering these projects. This role will be a mix of being a construction site foreman, operations manager, account executive, analyst, and product manager. One day, you’ll be starting very early to get to a construction site, talk to stakeholders, and help the team deliver—and see actual, physical buildings emerge through our robots. On another day, you might be in the office analysing your deployment’s P&L and coming up with a plan on how to improve margins through better processes and changes to our product. You’ll have an extraordinary amount of autonomy in this role, and we believe that it is an excellent fit if you’ve been a startup founder before or are actively seeking a very entrepreneurial role. What You Might Be Working On - Plan the logistics of a deployment: decide how many and which robots and humans to send, coordinate with other subcontractors, and make both a day-to-day operational plan while also thinking about the bigger picture and how your decisions impact our unit economics. - Spend time on the construction site, overseeing, managing, and motivating the team; liaising with the general contractors and other stakeholders; and generally representing the company and selling our story. You’re comfortable speaking with the guys building scaffolds, the CEOs of the biggest general contractors, and our engineers, all on the same day. - Work with our existing customer base and drive growth of new construction projects and, in the future, adjacent product lines beyond bricklaying. - Own the P&L of your deployment and propose ways to continuously improve our unit economics. - Support hiring and interviewing additional robot and deployment operators. What We’re Looking For - Minimum of 3 years of experience in management as a startup founder, GM, in operations, strategy, business development or a similar area. - Given the local nature of the construction industry, this role requires you to be a fluent Dutch speaker. - You generally need to be an excellent communicator and be comfortable speaking with a broad range of personas. - You don’t mind getting your hands (literally) dirty to get the job done. - A strong bias-to-action and getting-shit-done mentality with the required tenacity and speed. The emphasis of this role is execution, not analysis. - You’re comfortable in a high-stress environment. Things constantly go wrong at construction sites, the stakes are high, and we’re introducing new technology with