Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it reflects a common reality for SaaS-adjacent companies building software-enabled products: operational maturity becomes a strategic lever, not just a back-office function. Standard Bots is moving from prototype toward high-volume production, and the work centers on creating the program infrastructure that turns leadership intent into repeatable execution. While the company is hardware-led, the mandate mirrors what SaaS operators recognise as “building the operating system” for scale.
For a SaaS career, the value lies in developing structured decision-making under ambiguity, with a strong emphasis on unit economics, make versus buy analysis, and executive-ready synthesis. These are durable skills across SaaS environments where teams must translate strategy into roadmaps, align cross-functional stakeholders, and quantify tradeoffs before committing resources. The exposure to budget ownership and dependency management also maps closely to how SaaS organisations run multi-quarter initiatives.
The role fits professionals who prefer high-ownership program work, enjoy shaping process where none exists, and are comfortable being the connective tissue between technical teams and leadership decisions. It will appeal to those who want their program management to be measured by clarity, financial rigor, and shipped outcomes rather than coordination alone.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About Standard Bots
Standard Bots is developing the next generation of industrial robots—hardware that is powerful, affordable, and built for scalability. As we move rapidly from prototype to high-volume production, we require program management infrastructure that can keep pace. This role is integral to achieving that goal.
We are vertically integrating our core manufacturing processes, including CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, finishing, and casting. This strategy is essential for maintaining the speed, resilience, and cost-efficiency of our robot production as we scale.
Note: This is a full-time, on-site role at our Glen Cove, NY manufacturing facility and HQ.
The Role
Owning how a strategy becomes reality. Taking an ambiguous, high-stakes mandate and standing up the program behind it; structuring the work, building the plan, managing internal and external partners, and driving it to a decision leadership can act on and a plan the organization can execute. It is a high-ownership, high-ambiguity role with direct CEO visibility, sitting at the intersection of manufacturing, corporate strategy, and program execution.
What You'll Do
Establish programs. Transform an ambiguous strategic mandate into organized work-streams, assign owners, set milestones, and create a budget. Designing the operating system that supports the entire effort.
Build the plan. Convert strategy into decision-grade plans: requirements definition, options analysis, cost models, and a costed, sequenced recommendation.
Own execution. Drive work-streams to completion, hold the schedule and budget, manage dependencies, and clear blockers before they stall the program.
Manage stakeholders and partners. Coordinate internal functions (engineering, supply chain, finance) and external partners and consultants; scope engagements and hold them to budget and deadline.
Quantify the decision. Build and own the financial models, make-vs-buy, CapEx, breakeven, unit economics that leadership decisions rest on.
Drive to a decision. Synthesize the work into executive-grade readouts and move leadership to a clear, timely call.
Basic Qualifications:
7+ years leading cross-functional programs to executive decisions in manufacturing/operations, corporate strategy or BizOps at a hardware company, or management consulting with genuine industrial exposure.
Demonstrated ownership of a complex, ambiguous effort driven from strategy through to an executable plan.
Financial-modeling fluency: breakeven, CapEx, unit economics, and enough M&A literacy (EBITDA multiples) to own and pressure-test a make-vs-buy model.
Executive communication: structured written synthesis and board-quality presentations.
Vendor and consultant management, scoping and holding external partners to budget and deadline.
Comfort operating without a playbook, at startup pace, with direct executive exposure.
Preferred Qualifications:
Prior make-vs-buy, re-shoring, capacity-expansion, or M&A-evaluation experience.
Working literacy across manufacturing processes (machining, sheet metal, finishing, casting).
Experience standing up a shop, plant, or lab from scratch.
Robotics or precision-hardware background.
PMP or equivalent
Experience working with Long Island/NY-metro manufacturing organizations.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $180,000. We are open to a variety of seniority levels for this role and will build compensation packages that are commensurate with seniority and skill level. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
