Deployment Manager
Monumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour.
We’re a growing team (about 100 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and 1X. It’s still the early days of building the company, and this is a unique opportunity to be an early employee in a high-growth, high-ambition startup environment. From Day 1, you’ll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors.
Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We’re explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoycollaborating 5 days a week at the office. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like.
About You and This Role
We’re scaling up the number of construction projects (”deployments”) and robots and humans involved and looking for extremely versatile team members who want to own all aspects of delivering these projects. This role will be a mix of being a construction site foreman, operations manager, account executive, analyst, and product manager.
One day, you’ll be starting very early to get to a construction site, talk to stakeholders, and help the team deliver—and see actual, physical buildings emerge through our robots. On another day, you might be in the office analysing your deployment’s P&L and coming up with a plan on how to improve margins through better processes and changes to our product.
You’ll have an extraordinary amount of autonomy in this role, and we believe that it is an excellent fit if you’ve been a startup founder before or are actively seeking a very entrepreneurial role.
What You Might Be Working On
Plan the logistics of a deployment: decide how many and which robots and humans to send, coordinate with other subcontractors, and make both a day-to-day operational plan while also thinking about the bigger picture and how your decisions impact our unit economics.
Spend time on the construction site, overseeing, managing, and motivating the team; liaising with the general contractors and other stakeholders; and generally representing the company and selling our story. You’re comfortable speaking with the guys building scaffolds, the CEOs of the biggest general contractors, and our engineers, all on the same day.
Work with our existing customer base and drive growth of new construction projects and, in the future, adjacent product lines beyond bricklaying.
Own the P&L of your deployment and propose ways to continuously improve our unit economics.
Support hiring and interviewing additional robot and deployment operators.
What We’re Looking For
Minimum of 3 years of experience in management as a startup founder, GM, in operations, strategy, business development or a similar area.
Given the local nature of the construction industry, this role requires you to be a fluent Dutch speaker.
You generally need to be an excellent communicator and be comfortable speaking with a broad range of personas.
You don’t mind getting your hands (literally) dirty to get the job done.
A strong bias-to-action and getting-shit-done mentality with the required tenacity and speed. The emphasis of this role is execution, not analysis.
You’re comfortable in a high-stress environment. Things constantly go wrong at construction sites, the stakes are high, and we’re introducing new technology with novel failure modes.
Raw intellectual horsepower and eagerness to learn. We expect this role to have a steep learning curve whatever your background, and this role might in practice feel like a completely new job every 3-6 months. You’ll learn a lot about construction, robotics, and being part of a high-growth, hard-tech company.
Experience and ability to manage, lead, and motivate a (small) team.
Strong operational and analytical skills. You can build a spreadsheet with a clear operational plan, or present a P&L and model various scenarios and drivers. You’re a strong project manager.
Why Monumental?
Joining Monumental means being at the forefront of a movement aimed at making significant strides in the construction industry. Here, your work has the potential to impact not just the company but the future of how we build. If you're driven by innovation, eager to tackle complex challenges, and ready to make a tangible difference, we want to hear from you.
For open applications (where you don’t see an exact role match), please reach out to us at: iwanttojoin@monumental.co - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you’ve worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio.
Unfortunately we do not currently support internships.
If you don’t meet all the qualifications here but are excited about Monumental and feel you’d still be able to help us solve difficult problems, do get in touch. We welcome generalists who focus on outcomes and are eager to learn on the job.