Deployment Manager

Deployment Manager LocationAmsterdamEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentField DeploymentsMonumental 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 by a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and Plural.Monumental is based in the city centre of Amsterdam, in a beautiful facility with an fully equipped workshop and robot testing floor. We build the whole stack in-house - hardware and software, 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 roleOver the last few years, Monumental has gone from developing a product that works and delivering our first pilots to building at scale - a fleet of 150+ robots that have laid bricks for 90+ homes, a school, a community centre, a hotel, and 150+ m of canal walls.We're taking on more construction projects - "deployments" - every month, with more robots, more people, and now in new markets as we scale from the Netherlands into the UK and US.We're hiring versatile operators who want to run a deployment as if it were their own business. Behind every one of these projects is a Deployment Manager who owns it end to end. In practice this is five jobs in one: site foreman, operations manager, account executive, analyst, and project manager. You make the build plan, deploy yourself with your team on site as a subcontractor, manage the contractor relationship, and take responsibility for delivering quality walls, finished on time - in construction, one of the most chaotic industries there is. Your goal will be to run multiple deployments in parallel, overseeing complex and high stakes projects.One day you're up at dawn, travelling to site, cutting bricks, running the schedule, working with the general contractor and watching your build plan go up brick by brick. The next you'll be at our facility analysing your deployment's P&L and building the systems that improve your margin on the next deployment. You’ll own delivery and translating friction you observe on-site to our R&D team.This is hard, on-site operations, and some of the most rewarding work you'll find. Robots break, weather turns, the contractor changes the plan, and it's on you to keep the build moving.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.What you’ll doPlan 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.Build the operational systems that make each deployment run better than the last - spotting inefficiencies, fixing processes, improving...