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Director of Operations

American Terawatt · San Francisco or NYC · On-site

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About American Terawatt

Modernizing America's electricity network with National-Scale HVDC transmission. Backed by Antler.

About the role

We are hiring our founding Operations Director to build and lead the operational infrastructure that enables American Terawatt to scale effectively. You will work directly with the founders and other leaders. This is a wide-ranging role combining strategic ownership of business operations, organizational effectiveness and the systems that support our growth. Today, the role has two core functions: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • A scrappy startup operator, chief of staff, or business-operations leader who has owned a broad set of functions
  • A ruthless prioritizer
  • A builder, with a track record of standing up CRMs, trackers, and processes that teams will actually use
  • Comfort building functions from scratch, effective AI poweruser
  • The judgment to select and manage external marketing partners (PR, brand, design, events), and to know when to bring the function in-house
  • A natural connector across engineering, business development, finance, candidates, and partners
More about this role

American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States.

We design and deploy advanced power transmission systems serving large industrial loads, gigawatts at a time. Our systems deliver power to everything from frontier AI datacenters to advanced automated factories, refineries, mines, and more.

The backbone of American Terawatt’s network is HVDC transmission, anchored by our unique terminal design. American Terawatt’s terminals are standardized, modular, and natively integrate energy storage. Each one is designed to expand to operate as a full node on our future HVDC transmission network.

We are early-stage and venture-backed, with a small, experienced team (~20 people today) and active projects across the US. Our investors include Altimeter, Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, Zero Infinity Partners, and other leading firms.

We are hiring our founding Operations Director to build and lead the operational infrastructure that enables American Terawatt to scale effectively. You will work directly with the founders and other leaders. This is a wide-ranging role combining strategic ownership of business operations, organizational effectiveness and...

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