Deep Tech Hardware Startup, Founding Team, Remote

Confidential Company

$150K — $250K *
US-AnywhereRemote
Information Technology
15+ years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience as a CEO or equivalent leader in deep tech or IoT sectors with significant commercial outcomes.
  • Track record of success in securing institutional venture capital funding and maintaining partner-level relationships.
  • Ability to acquire first enterprise customers without a pre-existing commercial framework.
  • Technical knowledge in RF sensing and wireless infrastructure to engage credibly with stakeholders.
  • Experience in government contracts or dual-use tech environments is a plus.
  • Bachelor's degree or similar professional experience.

Responsibilities

  • Close the seed funding round by leveraging existing investor relationships.
  • Acquire initial enterprise customers across various target markets utilizing personal connections.
  • Establish a thriving commercial engine from inception, focusing on market entry strategies.
  • Lead the executive team as the company scales towards Series A funding.
  • Oversee the company's P&L and develop budgetary strategies for growth.
  • Engage with co-founders on capital, relationship management, and strategic positioning.

Benefits

  • Founding equity stake in the company
  • Performance bonus eligibility after raising capital
  • Opportunity to shape the company's vision and direction
  • Engagement with experienced co-founders for support and mentorship
  • Innovative work environment focused on cutting-edge spatial intelligence technology
Full Job Description

Every wireless device in a building already emits a continuous signal, phones, wearables, machines, sensors. Nobody has ever built the infrastructure to read it at scale. We did.

We are a small founding team that has built a passive RF spatial intelligence platform. A single node replaces a standard enterprise WiFi access point and, from that same ceiling mount, identifies, locates, and authenticates every wireless device in range with sub-10cm accuracy in three dimensions, across WiFi, BLE, UWB, cellular, and RFID simultaneously. No tags. No cameras. No app. No opt-in required.

Twenty issued patents. A working prototype validated at sub-10cm accuracy. We are prototype stage, pre-revenue, with our seed round not yet closed.

We are hiring the founding CEO who takes this from validated technology to a company: closes the seed round, signs the first enterprise customers, and builds the commercial engine from the ground up.

What you will own: the beachhead decision across six markets with real, funded pain (retail loss prevention, healthcare asset visibility, commercial real estate, corrections, financial services compliance, and supply chain custody); the first enterprise customers, sourced from your own relationships; the seed raise, from pipeline through close; the executive team through Series A; the board; and the P&L. The co-founders remain actively engaged on capital, relationships, and positioning.

Who tends to thrive here: candidates with backgrounds in supply chain visibility and asset tracking, industrial IoT, RFID and inventory intelligence, warehouse and logistics automation, loss prevention and asset security technology, healthcare RTLS, or defense-adjacent hardware-software platforms are strongly encouraged to apply. Strong candidates have sold into VP and C-level buyers across operations, supply chain, IT, and asset management, and have built a commercial motion from zero.

Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated track record as CEO, President, founder, or equivalent senior leader at a deep tech, hardware-software, IoT, or supply chain intelligence company, with verifiable commercial or exit outcomes
  • Demonstrated success raising institutional venture capital, with partner-level relationships at institutional funds, family offices, or strategic capital partners
  • Demonstrated ability to land first enterprise customers in a market with no existing commercial playbook
  • Technical fluency to hold a credible conversation on RF sensing, wireless infrastructure, and spatial data platforms
  • Comfort operating in defense-adjacent and dual-use environments, including with government customers
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience


Compensation: Base salary of $150,000 to $250,000 annually following the seed close, commensurate with stage and experience, with a material step-up at Series A. Meaningful founding equity. Performance bonus eligibility post-raise. Details discussed over the course of conversations.

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