Strategic Operations Operations

We are looking for someone entrepreneurial, technically minded and excited by the challenge of making a small deep-tech company operate with far more leverage than its size would suggest.

Zero Point Motion is building semiconductor sensors for physical AI, with a bigger ambition around owning more of the data and intelligence layer over time. That means we need a non-traditional operations role sitting somewhere between technology, company building and execution.

Make the company operate better and move faster. The first priority is using AI, automation and better systems to create leverage across a small team. The second is people, performance and quality, helping us maintain a very high bar as the team grows.

The third is working closely with the founder as a strategic operator across the parts of the company that do not sit neatly inside one function.

This is the biggest priority. We want Zero Point Motion to operate as an AI-native company beyond just for technical work. You will look across the business for repetitive work, poor information flow, unnecessary manual effort and processes that have not kept pace with the company, then work out how to improve them.

That could mean:

• building agents, automations and lightweight internal tools

• connecting systems so information does not have to be repeatedly copied or chased

• automating parts of recruitment, reporting, research, relationship management and company administration

• rapidly testing new AI tools and deciding which genuinely improve how we operate

You should be experienced in using AI, APIs, low-code tools and lightweight coding confidently enough to build and test things yourself. We want someone who already keeps up with AI and emerging technology because they are genuinely interested in it.

We have a very high bar for our technology. We want the same standard reflected in how the company operates. You will lead our Talent & Workplace Coordinator and Office Manager, helping turn this into a strong operational layer around the wider team.

You will:

• maintain a high bar for recruitment and continually improve how we find, assess and close exceptional people

• help us get more from a small team before assuming the answer is simply more headcount

• make ownership and expectations clearer to strengthen accountability

• build sensible gates so mistakes are caught before they create work elsewhere

• improve how meetings, handovers and internal communication work

• follow problems through to resolution rather than stopping at analysis or recommendations

We care a lot about people and want them to succeed, but we are also building a high-performance company. A major part of this role is helping translate the founder's quality threshold throughout the organisation.

You will work closely with the founder and gain unusually broad exposure to how the company is being built. Some problems will arrive clearly defined but many will not. You might need to investigate why an important project keeps stalling, turn a loosely defined founder priority into clear actions and owners, prepare options around a strategic decision, or take something that currently falls between functions and drive it through to completion.

The work will change as the company changes. Examples might include:

• helping prepare for an investor, customer or Board discussion

• researching a strategic partner or market before an important decision

• making sure external relationships and follow-ups do not disappear between conversations

• helping communicate why our technology matters when there is a clear strategic reason to do so

• identifying a useful grant or non-dilutive funding opportunity and helping coordinate a strong response

• looking ahead at what the company is likely to need next and starting to build it before it becomes urgent

You do not need to arrive as an expert in investors, customers, grants or communications. What matters is that you are commercially aware, learn quickly and are comfortable getting deep enough into an unfamiliar area to make yourself useful.

Over time, you should understand the technology, people and business well enough to anticipate what the company needs next rather than simply responding to what has already happened.

There is no single conventional background for this role. What matters much more is evidence of how you think and what you have actually done.

Required Background:

• At least 2 years…