CEO
Chief Executive Officer
Location: California (Hybrid)
Reports to: Board of Directors
Stage: Post-Series A, Scaling Growth Phase
About the Company
Our client is a venture-backed robotics and AI company at a pivotal inflection point. The business has developed a category-leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) platform that combines advanced AI with human-centric design. This solution is already deployed with global enterprises and is delivering measurable productivity gains and disruptive unit economics.
With a strong technology foundation, proven customer adoption, and significant growth potential across logistics, healthcare, automotive, and industrial sectors, the company is now focused on capital strategy and commercial scaling.
The Role
We are seeking a commercially-driven, visionary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the company through its next stage of growth. This individual will take ownership of fundraising, commercial expansion, and long-term strategic leadership, positioning the company as a category-defining automation leader in one of the world’s fastest-growing sectors.
Key Responsibilities
Fundraising & Capital Strategy
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Lead upcoming growth funding rounds
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Develop and execute long-term capital plans to support manufacturing and global deployments.
Commercial Growth
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Scale enterprise sales, channel, and partnership strategies.
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Drive adoption with global enterprise customers and expand into adjacent verticals.
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Build and lead a high-performing commercial function across sales, marketing, and customer success.
Strategy & Operations
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Define and deliver the long-term vision for automation leadership across industries.
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Balance hardware and software revenue models (robotics-as-a-service, recurring revenue).
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Drive operational excellence across supply chain, sales, and customer delivery.
Culture & Leadership
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Lead a world-class technical team within a collaborative, customer-centric culture.
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Act as the external face of the company with investors, customers, and partners.
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Build on a strong engineering foundation to scale into a global commercial business.
Candidate Profile
Experience
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Proven track record of raising $100M+ in capital within hardware, robotics, deep tech, or enterprise technology.
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Executive experience as CEO, President, COO, or GM with full P&L responsibility.
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Demonstrated success scaling hardware + software businesses, ideally within logistics, supply chain, or automation.
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Experience leading complex enterprise sales cycles (6–12 months).
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Background working with or selling into system integrators, supply chain operators, or enterprise customers.
Attributes
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Highly commercial, thrives on building relationships and closing enterprise deals.
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Visionary leader with the ability to inspire teams, customers, and investors.
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Strategic operator with strong financial acumen and capital discipline.
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Culturally adept at scaling world-class technical organizations without losing agility.
Why Apply?
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Massive Market Opportunity – Logistics automation is a trillion-dollar global industry.
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Proven Product-Market Fit – Validated deployments with global enterprise customers.
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World-Class Team – Backed by leading investors and a highly respected technical founding team.
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Disruptive Economics – Category-leading product with unmatched ROI.
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Inflection Point – Product is ready, customers are paying, and the business is primed for scale.