Founder's Office, Deployment Associate

About Origin

Origin (previously 10xConstruction) is building general-purpose autonomous robots for US construction to tackle rising costs, safety risks, and labour shortages. Our modular, multi-trade platform combines purpose-built hardware with real-time site intelligence to navigate complex environments and execute tasks with precision. Trained in high-fidelity simulation and already deployed on live sites, our robots deliver faster execution, stronger project economics, and meaningful cost savings. Join India’s talent-dense robotics team, with colleagues from IITs, Stanford, UCLA, and other leading institutions.

About the role

As Founder's Office, Deployment Associate, you will work closely with the founders and deployment team on high-priority initiatives spanning product, operations, customers, and field execution. You will help take new robot capabilities from an internal prototype to a successful customer pilot, resolve operational ambiguity, and build repeatable playbooks for commercial deployment. This is a hands-on role for someone who can move between a construction site, a product review, a customer conversation, and an operating plan with clear follow-through.

Key responsibilities

• Drive assigned pilot workstreams from planning through execution and post-pilot review, including scope, site readiness, deployment schedules, acceptance criteria, and action tracking.

• Work with Sales and deployment teams to support the conversion of paid pilots into commercial deployments.

• Translate customer and field needs into clear product, hardware, software, and operational requirements.

• Coordinate engineering, deployment, safety, commercial, and customer stakeholders around milestones, owners, and decisions.

• Build and maintain playbooks for mobilization, operator training, site support, issue escalation, and handover.

• Support customer adoption and track the actions needed to expand deployment at a site.

• Track pilot economics, utilization, reliability, customer outcomes, and blockers; follow through on corrective actions.

• Investigate issues during live deployments and ensure lessons are captured for product and operational improvements.

• Research new use cases, partners, geographies, and operating models, and prepare clear recommendations for the founders.

Required qualifications and skills

• Hands-on experience in deployment, program management, operations, product operations, consulting, founder's office, or a comparable execution-focused role.

• Evidence of delivering projects involving physical products, industrial systems, automation, robotics, or construction technology in customer environments.

• Strong structured problem solving, project planning, stakeholder coordination, and written communication.

• Comfort working at sites, understanding technical issues, and driving closure across functions.

• Ability to turn ambiguous goals into practical plans with owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

• Willingness to travel frequently and work around customer and site schedules.

Preferred experience

• Construction operations, robotics deployment, industrial automation, heavy equipment, or hardware startups.

• Experience supporting customer pilots, building operating playbooks, or coordinating customer success operations.

• Familiarity with safety, commissioning, field service, unit economics, and commercial deployment processes.