VP of Ops

About Terranova

Backed by leading deep tech VCs, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods. Our mission is to preserve the built environment, create new habitats, and usher in an era of abundance. Our work supports climate resilience, disaster recovery, housing development, and defense across the United States and beyond.

We’re assembling a world-class team that wants to work on something real, physical, and civilization-scale. If you want your work to reshape the world (literally), this is the place to do it.

What to Expect

We are looking for a COO or a VP Operations who can function as a true company operator: owning execution across engineering, field operations, manufacturing, recruiting, finance, customer delivery, and internal systems. This is a cofounder-level role at a very early company. This person will lead from the front, run an extremely tight operating cadence, and make sure the hundreds of things required to keep projects moving get done.

The upside is meaningful equity, ownership, and the chance to help build one of the defining hard-tech companies of the next decade.

Key Responsibilities

● Own company-wide execution across engineering, operations, deployments, hiring, finance, procurement, legal coordination, and customer delivery.

● Build and run the operating system of the company: weekly cadence, project plans, dashboards, accountability loops, and decision-making processes.

● Manage and motivate a high-intensity technical team while earning credibility with engineers, field operators, and founders.

● Drive field deployments from planning through completion, ensuring projects do not slip because of logistics, staffing, materials, permitting, vendors, or customer coordination.

● Work directly with the CEO to support fundraising, board communication, strategic planning, and company priorities.

● Support GTM...