Strategy & Operations, Founder's Office at Laminar
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Compensation
- $90k-$200k + Equity
Laminar is teaching machines to understand matter. Backed by tier-one investors and working with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food manufacturers, this physical AI leader is scaling fast. We’re looking for a Strategy & Operations expert to join the Founder's Office and drive the path to $100M in revenue.
You’ll combine high-stakes financial modeling with hands-on execution, launching new markets and building teams from scratch. If you’re a top-tier finance alum with startup operating experience, this is your chance to own a broad mandate with a clear path to functional leadership.
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Role overview
Join the Founder’s Office at Laminar to drive growth toward $100M in revenue. You will bridge investor-grade financial modeling with aggressive hands-on execution, launching new markets and building out critical business functions. This role offers a direct path to leadership as you translate high-level strategy into operating reality alongside the founders.
About Laminar
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 state-of-the-art patented 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 across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.
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.
What you will do
- Design and execute operating plans, budgets, and hiring strategies grounded in deployment economics to scale global production environments.
- Build and launch strategic initiatives from scratch, including new market entries, partnerships, and expert-advisory offerings for industrial clients.
- Drive fundraising efforts by developing sophisticated financial models, investor materials, and managing diligence processes alongside the founding team.
Who this is a fit for
- Background in top-tier finance or investing (e.g., Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, or KKR) followed by operational experience in a high-growth startup.
- Exceptional analytical horsepower with the ability to build investor-grade financial models and translate them into actionable business strategy.
- Proven builder mindset with experience hiring teams, conducting customer interviews, and taking initiatives from a blank page to full operation.
Why this role is remarkable
- Direct partnership with founders to build the financial and operational backbone of a company scaling toward $100M in revenue.
- Industry-leading traction with 7 of the 10 largest global food and beverage manufacturers and recognition as a WEF Technology Pioneer.
- Exceptional ownership with a stated path to lead a functional business unit as the company continues its global expansion.
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