Special Projects and New Ventures, Founder's Office

Laminar (formerly H2Ok Innovations)

• $130K — $160K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven track record of launching businesses or products.
  • Strong commercial judgment paired with financial fluency.
  • Experience in recruiting and leading cross-disciplinary teams.
  • Ability to prioritize and test new market opportunities.
  • Familiarity with economic modeling and business case development.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and prioritize new venture opportunities.
  • Build business cases and define launch milestones.
  • Launch initiatives targeting key sectors such as manufacturing.
  • Recruit teams and collaborate with leadership for project success.
  • Analyze financials to guide company planning and fundraising.
  • Adapt initiatives based on performance metrics and results.

Benefits

  • Direct impact on product development and company culture.
  • Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and life insurance.
  • 401k plan with employer matching contributions.
  • Equity participation in the company.
  • Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
  • Dynamic and inclusive workplace environment.
  • Access to a network of cleantech startups and innovation resources.
  • Team bonding activities and events to foster a collaborative atmosphere.
Full Job Description
The Role

Build the capabilities and businesses that expand Laminar's reach. Working directly with the founders, you'll identify promising opportunities, test their economics, and lead them from concept through launch.

What You Will Own

  • Prioritize new ventures across industry verticals, geographies, partnerships, and customer offerings
  • Build business cases, define milestones, and recommend capital and headcount commitments
  • Launch initiatives such as an expert-advisory offering for major manufacturing customers
  • Recruit initial teams and work with engineering and commercial leaders to deliver results
  • Contribute to company planning and fundraising through financial analysis and evidence from new initiatives
  • Scale, revise, or stop initiatives based on results, then lead them permanently or transfer ownership


What You'll Bring

A record of launching a business, function, product, or program. You combine commercial judgment with financial fluency and can recruit and lead people across disciplines.

Your opportunity

Build a portfolio of launches or grow into a GM mandate for a business you establish.

Benefits

  • Direct impact on product and culture.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
  • 401k plan with employer matching
  • Equity
  • Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
  • Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
  • Opportunities for growth and professional development.
  • Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.
  • Transportation benefit for your commute
  • Work with real recognition: 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and ABInBev, and more
  • A team that celebrates together from rooftop lunches, ping pong matches, Lunch & Learns, and regular team events


Learn How We Think

  • Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
  • How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
  • Customer story: Unilever uses Laminar precision automation to cut time & water usage


There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We're fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we'd love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

1. Phone screen with Laminar Head of Ops or Recruiter (15-20 minutes)

2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)

3. On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.

4. Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder's Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

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