Business Operations - Factory ONE

Job description

SAEKI - Manufacturing at software speed Europe's defense industrial base can't respond at the speed modern conflict demands. Legacy suppliers operate on month-long timelines. Tribal knowledge is retiring. Supply chains are fragile. SAEKI is building the operating system for autonomous factories - the infrastructure that lets Europe manufacture mission-critical components at software speed. We've just opened Factory ONE in Munich: a 8,000 m² production facility with 5-axis CNCs, industrial robots, and large-scale 3D printers, shipping hardware to defense and space customers. The factory works. Now we need to build the operating layer around it - the systems, processes, and discipline that let us scale from Factory ONE to Factory N without losing the speed that got us here. The Role: You'll be the first dedicated business operations hire, working directly with Andrea (CEO) and Nic (Chief of Staff) to turn ramp-up improvisation into systems that scale. This is a generalist BizOps role with real ownership: you own the operational backbone of a company shipping mission-critical hardware. Concretely, that means you'll own the boring-but-essential infrastructure - vendor contracts, financ...