Director of Operations
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Director of Operations overseeing customer installations for leading proptech SaaS platform. Managing teams, operational performance, and ensuring execution excellence across projects.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end delivery performance across all customer installations, including timelines, quality, cost discipline, communication, and client experience.
- Lead and prioritize a portfolio of concurrent projects, balancing capacity, dependencies, and business priorities.
- Ensure delivery commitments are realistic, tracked, and consistently met.
- Proactively surface risks, articulate tradeoffs, and drive resolution.
- Design, implement, and enforce SOPs that drive predictable execution across installations, inventory, supply chain, and customer maintenance (preventative and break/fix).
- Establish reliable operating dashboards that reflect reality, including install pipeline and forecast, resource utilization, inventory accuracy, open POs and lead times, and maintenance backlog/SLA performance.
- Build disciplined operating rhythms for procurement, receiving, staging/kitting, and returns/RMA to ensure material readiness, cost control, and minimal customer downtime.
- Hold teams and partners accountable for data accuracy, timely updates, and operational transparency.
- Lead and performance-manage a team of 12 Project Managers and operations staff with clear ownership and measurable KPIs.
- Manage installation partners, contractors, and vendors to defined standards for quality, safety, cost, and timelines; continuously reassess make-vs-buy decisions to improve performance and margins.
- Define role clarity, streamline ownership, and build role-based training that drives repeatable execution.
- Own operational performance against budget, margin targets, and delivery commitments at the project and departmental level.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (preferred) or Mechanical Engineering
- 10–15 years of experience in operations, project delivery, or engineering services within hardware-enabled SaaS, IoT, energy management, or industrial technology environments
- Strong command of project management tools, operational dashboards, and data reporting platforms
- Effective working style across executive leadership, internal teams, and field technicians
- Experience leading multi-region installation programs across the U.S., Canada, and international markets
- Demonstrated success scaling installation and deployment operations from tens to hundreds of installs per month
- Deep understanding of mechanical and electrical design, testing, manufacturing processes, industry standards, and regulatory requirements
- Proven ability to lead teams, build cross-functional relationships, make sound strategic decisions, and drive operational change.
Benefits:
- Potential performance bonus
- Equity
















