Chief of Staff

Somerville, MA

Operations

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This position offers a base salary plus bonus (quota).

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.

We're seeking an exceptional Chief of Staff to join our dynamic team and work directly with the CEO and CTO to accelerate our growth and strategic initiatives. You will act as an extension to the CEO and CTO. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in scaling a high impact cleantech startup and shaping the future of the industrial AI landscape while learning extraordinarily quickly. We are looking for outlier individuals with strong strategic written and verbal communication skills, organizational skills, and execution capability.

What You Will Do

Finance & Reporting: Own company-wide budgeting, financial reporting, and Board meeting preparation. Lead development and tracking of key KPIs across all functions. Drive financial modeling, forecasting, and cash flow management to support strategic planning. Oversee budgeting processes, resource allocation, and basic accounting.
Strategic Partnership and Execution: Work closely with the CEO and CTO and provide operational support and manage the execution of key strategic priorities across departments including Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, and more.
Operational Efficiency: Support our Head of Operations and help with operations. Both identify and own areas for improvement, optimize workflows, and implement systems to support rapid growth while maintaining a high level of efficiency and quality.
Market & Industry Research and Modeling: Conduct market research and industry research on further company development, lead data analysis efforts to provide insights that drive business decisions and conduct market modeling/documentation development.
Communication: Discern tone of voice of the CEO and CTO and execute on written and verbal communication in stakeholder, board, investor, internal, and external communication.
Process creation and documentation development: Identify opportunities in the company and own creating processes to drive improvement. Create documentation.
Team Culture & Development: Foster a mission-driven, relentless, creative, and empire-building team culture. Interface with Operations team and assist in recruiting and talent development to build a world-class team.
Idea execution: Our founders (and team) have a lot of ambitious ideas. Interface with the right functional team if applicable to prioritize, plan, roadmap, and execute on them to make sure no balls get dropped.
Jack of all trades: Ability to be flexible, execute diverse tasks that arise cross-functionally, and be willing to do whatever it takes.

About You

Experience: 3-5+ years of experience in consulting, finance/investment banking, operations, product management, or strategy. Ability to exceptionally perform in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment. Experience in a startup environment within industrial technology, cleantech, or Physical AI solutions preferred.
Finance: Strong experience including the following: Financial Modeling & Forecasting, Budgeting & Resource Allocation, Startup Metrics & KPIs, Fundraising Support, Cash Flow Management, Grant & Incentive Financials, Understanding Business Models, and Basic Accounting.
Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams, influence key stakeholders, and drive the execution of complex projects. Exceptional ability to learn new topics quickly, learn first principles of different disciplines, and working on multi-disciplinary projects.
Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of AI, IoT, and other cutting-edge technologies in the industrial space. Experience with process manufacturing or sustainability in industries is a plus.
Strategic Mindset: A proactive, forward-thinking problem solver who thrives in a fast-moving startup environment and is excited to take on challenging diverse problems.
Excellent Communication: Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives for external industry, investors, partners, and internal teams.
Mission-driven: Obsession with revolutionizing foundational sectors and using technology to solve the world’s most pressing environmental and industry challenges.

Learn How We Think

Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
A customer story: Ben & Jerry's uses H2Ok's precision automation to cut time & water usage

Why Laminar?

Benefits

Direct impact on sales, customer, product, and culture.

Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.

401k plan with employer matching

Equity

Dynamic, passionate, and inclusive work environment.

Opportunities for growth and professional development.

Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.

Location

In-person preferred, hybrid and remote options for consideration based on fit.

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

1. Phone screen with Laminar HR/Recruiter (15-20 minutes)

2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)

3. On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.

4. Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder’s Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

Laminar is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Even if you are unsure you are a perfect fit, we strongly encourage you to apply! If you're ready to play a key role in scaling a game-changing company that’s transforming the industrial sector and advancing sustainability, we want to hear from you.

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