Jobs at Cape Productions

Lead Cape’s People organization to scale headcount from ~100 to 300+. Build recruiting engine, retain talent through total rewards and career frameworks, professionalize management, and implement performance, succession, and people systems. Report to the CEO and hire a Head of Recruiting while remaining hands-on with sourcing and employee sentiment.

Build and own Capes Android app from architecture through launch, focusing on privacy, security, performance, and user workflows. Collaborate across teams, maintain high code quality, implement testing and release processes, and iterate with designers to deliver a trustworthy mobile experience.

Build and own Capes iOS app using Swift and SwiftUI, from architecture through App Store launch. Implement secure, high-performance features, collaborate cross-functionally, maintain code quality, and improve user workflows while applying privacy and cryptography best practices.

Provide onsite first-line IT support for Cape's NYC office: run employee onboarding/offboarding, resolve Tier‑1 support tickets to SLA, build automations/AI workflows, manage hardware procurement and audit-ready asset inventory across offices, maintain conference-room AV and visitor systems, administer MDM and workspace suites, and support macOS/Windows/Linux devices.

Full-cycle recruiter responsible for sourcing, engaging, and closing engineering talent. Partner with hiring managers to define roles, build and manage diverse pipelines, run searches using Ashby/LinkedIn/Google, deliver excellent candidate experiences, and meet weekly/monthly/quarterly hiring goals in a fast-paced startup environment.

Design and deliver visual assets across brand, web, and marketing. Own website and landing page visuals, ads, decks, event collateral, and swag. Uphold brand guidelines, collaborate with marketing and internal teams, and run projects end-to-end with strong aesthetic judgment.

Own capture and proposal efforts for government and defense opportunities: perform market research, develop capture plans and win themes, write proposals and RFx responses, coordinate pricing and cross-functional inputs, maintain reusable content, and represent the company at industry events to convert pursuits into awarded contracts.

Lead business intelligence and market research to inform consumer strategy. Design and run quantitative and qualitative studies, build dashboards and financial models (P&L, pricing, ROI), analyze willingness-to-pay and feature trade-offs, and deliver actionable recommendations to senior leadership. Own metrics, tracking systems, and cross-functional insight execution.

Design and build Cape's privacy-first data platform including warehouse, query layer, and pipelines. Implement privacy-preserving practices, provide self-serve analytics (dashboards, metrics, reports), and establish data engineering standards, testing, and documentation while collaborating across engineering, product, and business teams.

First in-house lawyer responsible for broad corporate legal work: regulatory compliance, government and commercial contracts, IP, employment, and AI-related legal issues. Build internal legal processes, templates, and compliance frameworks; manage outside counsel; advise cross-functional teams and leadership on corporate transactions and legal risk as the company scales.

Own and scale revenue systems and processes: manage Salesforce data model and hygiene, integrate GTM tools, build dashboards and forecasts, support deal desk and quote-to-cash, document/improve sales processes, enable BD, and partner cross-functionally with Finance and Ops to drive pipeline health and rep performance.

Lead federal customer engagements across Indo-Pacific and Eastern Europe, deploy and integrate resilient high-speed tactical communication networks, translate user requirements into technical roadmaps, coordinate with product and engineering, cultivate executive-level relationships, and travel up to 50% while maintaining TS/SCI clearance.

Own and improve Cape's developer experience: CI/CD/build infrastructure, local dev environments, internal tooling and SDKs, AI-assisted development workflows, reliability, security-aware developer platforms (FedRAMP-adjacent), metrics, documentation, and developer productivity improvements across the engineering organization.

Lead and scale Cape's engineering organization: hire and develop leaders, set goals and operating rhythms, translate strategy into an executable roadmap, ensure reliable, secure, high-quality delivery, foster cross-functional partnership, and occasionally contribute hands-on. Represent engineering with customers and leadership. Role is NYC-based and reports to the CEO.

Build and own core privacy-first telecommunications software: resilient, secure signaling, detection/prevention of malicious signaling, fake base-stations, SPAM/Smishing, and scalable APIs and infrastructure. Deliver high-performance, reliable systems with end-to-end privacy and security.

Drive execution of complex, cross-functional programs across security, engineering, and product. Design and optimize processes, remove roadblocks, manage risks, and ensure timely, high-quality integration of technologies for Government, Enterprise, and Consumer customers.

Embed with federal customers to deploy, configure, and sustain Cape's mobile core and secure networking products. Prototype and write production-grade integrations, troubleshoot live incidents, translate mission needs into engineering priorities, and drive platform fixes. Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business development to convert pilots into sustained programs.

Lead Cape's federal engineering org to architect and deliver secure, resilient, scalable networking and platform solutions for government and defense customers. Build and mentor an engineering team, translate mission requirements into deployable systems, own technical delivery and compliance, and engage directly with federal stakeholders to ensure accreditable, mission-ready communications in contested environments.

Support federal product operations and fulfillment for government customers: lead tactical deployments, act as Tier 2 technical SME for post-deployment issues, execute QA and release validation, codify SOPs and playbooks, forecast throughput, and manage high-tempo mission support to ensure seamless, secure field operations.

Embed with federal and enterprise customers to scope, deploy, integrate, and support Cape's privacy-first mobile network. Prototype and write production-grade glue code, troubleshoot production networks, run pilots and exercises, and translate field requirements into prioritized engineering work. Deliver technical support during incidents and drive platform fixes back into the roadmap.