Operations Lead

Reposted One Month Ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Robotics • Hospitality
The Role
Lead the company's operational backbone across logistics, vendor and field deployments, recruiting ops, expense and bookkeeping coordination, facilities/shop management, process and tooling development, and ad-hoc support for business development and investor communications.
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About Kovari

At Kovari, we're rethinking how physical work gets done in the age of robotics. We believe building robots that can move the economy is one of the most important endeavors in technology.

Our first goal is to build general-purpose robots for hospitality — taking on the physical, repetitive work that keeps the industry operating. The last mile problem for proliferating useful robots into businesses is a first-class innovation problem itself. We marry deep commercial understanding with fast-paced engineering to create robots that move the industry. Since inception, we've raised over $6M from industry-leading investors to carry out that mission.

We are obsessed with rapid iteration, engineering rigor, and deploying real machines into real environments. The next decade will compress a century of progress in robotics. We're looking for people who want to leave their fingerprints on that future.

We are based in San Francisco and work in-person.

The Role

Kovari runs fast. We build hardware, deploy it into live environments, manage vendors, hire people, and ship internal tooling — often all in the same week. This role exists to make sure none of that falls through the cracks.

You will own the operational backbone of the company. No single function, no narrow lane. You'll touch hiring, logistics, vendor management, finance, facilities, and whatever else needs an owner. The best version of this person makes the founders feel like things are handled — and then goes looking for the next problem.

What You'll Do

  • Own logistics and coordination across hardware shipments, vendor relationships, and field deployments

  • Drive recruiting operations — sourcing, scheduling, offer logistics, onboarding

  • Manage finances at the operational level: expenses, invoices, reimbursements, bookkeeping coordination

  • Keep facilities and shop operations running — supplies, equipment, safety, organization

  • Build internal processes and tooling as the company scales

  • Support business development and investor communications when needed

  • Identify gaps before they become problems and fix them without being asked

What You Bring

  • Proven ability to own things end-to-end with minimal direction

  • Comfortable context-switching between spreadsheets, vendor calls, and hands-on tasks in the same day

  • Strong written and verbal communication — you'll interface with partners, candidates, and investors

  • Bonus: experience in hospitality, hardware, or deployment-heavy industries

  • Bonus: ability to build lightweight web apps or internal tools

Values

  • Pace of learning trumps everything else

  • We relentlessly refine our craft

  • Low ego, high ownership

  • We work in-person and this isn't a 9-to-5 — we're building something hard and need people who are all-in

Skills Required

  • Proven ability to own projects end-to-end with minimal direction
  • Comfortable context-switching between spreadsheets, vendor calls, and hands-on tasks
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Work in-person in San Francisco (on-site)
  • Willingness to work beyond standard 9-to-5 hours and be highly committed
  • Experience in hospitality, hardware, or deployment-heavy industries
  • Ability to build lightweight web apps or internal tools
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The Company
4 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

What We Do

Kovari Industries is a venture-backed company that develops general-purpose robots for the hospitality industry to handle physical, repetitive work. They aim to marry deep commercial understanding with fast-paced innovation to create intelligent machines that move the economy. The company focuses on rapid iteration, engineering rigor, and deploying real machines into real environments to solve the last-mile problem of robot proliferation in businesses.

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