General Manager, US

General Manager, US LocationUSEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentCompany OperationsMonumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction software-defined and autonomous - a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings go up in a single day, with minimal labour.We're a growing team of engineers, operators and technicians 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 chance to make an outsized impact on a problem that matters. From day one, you’ll be working with an experienced founding team backed, backed by a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and Plural.You'll be part of our founding US team - pilots are on the way as we expand into the market, with facilities to follow. To get you started, we'll cover travel and accommodation for a few weeks of onboarding at Monumental HQ, in the city centre of Amsterdam - a beautiful facility with an in-house workshop and robot testing floor. We're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company - you can't build robots or walls from home, so we're onsite five days a week. Read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn about our vision and company. You might enjoy Based in Europe’s film on how we’re fixing Europe’s housing shortage, or this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office looks like.About the roleWe're looking for an extremely entrepreneurial operator. You’re going to be our first General Manager outside of Europe, so this is not going to be a role where you’ll follow some playbook to establish a new market: you’re going to figure out and write the playbook yourself, the hard and complicated way.Monumental is unique in that we're completely vertically-integrated. We design and build our own hardware and software, we manufacture the robots in-house, and we deploy them on construction sites ourselves, with our own team, operating as a subcontractor.If the prospect of deploying cutting-edge technology in an operationally complex environment that hasn't seen change for over a century, while doing sales and building up a local team doesn't daunt you, then you should definitely read on and apply.You'll have an extraordinary amount of autonomy. It's an excellent fit if you've founded a company before, or if you're looking for an entrepreneurial role where you can make outsized impact. You'll get high level goals (see below) but no one will tell you what to do or manage you on a daily basis.We are unable to support relocation or sponsorship for this role. Applicants must be based in the US, eligible to work willing for frequent travel between the US and the Netherlands.What you'll doFigure out how to go from small construction pilot deployments to ongoing commercial deployments, and then scale to multiple concurrent deployments. We expect you to act as the initial Deployment Manager in the US so you can build up enough tacit knowledge before scaling up.Ensure there is always more than sufficient demand for our product. Our sales tends to be low-lift work, but you should still be excellent at it and always have the feeling that you're short on supply to meet the demand you've generated.Hire, onboard, and manage a local team of robot and deployment operators that will operate our robots and other tasks on construction sites. We're planning to seed the US team with members from our Dutch team so you can hit the ground running and more easily bootstrap Monumental's unique culture in a new location.Manage our fleet of robots and, with the rest of the HQ team, figure out how to manage a remote fleet across the Atlantic.Set up whatever local facilities will be needed in the US, from a small office to a potential storage or maintenance hub.Stand up the required legal structure for us to operate and scale in the US. This includes setting up local entities, navigating state...