Nominal powers mission-critical engineering with advanced data infrastructure, real-time observability, and analysis tools — all in one collaborative platform. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
The Office Manager is the heart of our DC office. You’ll create an environment where Nomineers and guests feel welcomed, supported, and set up to do their best work—every day. This role blends hospitality, office operations, and people care. You’ll own the details that make the office run smoothly (space readiness, vendors, supplies, and front-of-house experience) and you’ll play a key role in making sure every person that walks into the office feels comfortable and welcome.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of experience in office management, workplace experience, hospitality, facilities coordination, or a related field
- Hospitality-first mindset: you care deeply about how people feel in a space and take pride in service
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, you can juggle competing priorities without dropping the basics
- Clear, friendly communication—written and verbal—and comfort interacting with executives, employees, and external guests
- Practical operations skills: vendor coordination, troubleshooting, and executing consistently high standards
- Proactive ownership: you anticipate needs, follow through, and make it easy for others to succeed
More about this role
Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world’s most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across every phase of development so they can move faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We are a fast-moving team that owns problems end to end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.
We serve top-tier commercial and defense customers including autonomy leaders like Anduril and Shield AI, next-generation aerospace teams such as Hermeus and REGENT, and performance engineering teams like Pratt Miller Motorsports. We also partner with mission teams within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force on programs where failure is not an option.
Nominal is backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed. Our team includes people from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the...
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