Business Strategy & Operations Lead

Business Strategy & Operations Lead Denver, CO Operations – Business Operations /Full-Time /On-site

Xcimer Energy leverages decades of research on Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) combined with groundbreaking new laser architecture. Our mission is to deploy fusion power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. Xcimer has assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by leading investors, Xcimer is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change.

Join us in powering a better world with inertial fusion! This is a full-time role based at our headquarters in Denver, CO, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer.

As a Strategy & Operations Lead, you will apply your skills to connecting Xcimer's strategic priorities to day-to-day execution by partnering with Program Management and the Chief of Staff to close the gap between decisions made in leadership reviews and what actually gets built, running the analysis that informs program and resource prioritization, and personally driving the rollout, training, and adoption of new operational processes across the company.

You'll often be the connective tissue on initiatives that don't sit cleanly inside any one function, owning ambiguous, cross-functional problems end-to-end, from first framing through implementation, and handing off a clean, sustainable process rather than a one-time fix. We are looking for our operations leaders to apply their technical expertise, problem solving skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact the future of energy!

• Serve as the implementation arm for newly approved operational processes: write clear, usable process documentation, design and run the training and rollout plan, and own the post-implementation adoption review.
• Own operational projects end-to-end — from problem definition through solutioning and implementation to a clean transition of ownership — coordinating finance, procurement, IT, facilities, and HR to deliver company-wide operational projects that don't sit cleanly inside a single engineering program.
• Own headcount planning and demand/supply forecasting for business-operations functions, building the tooling and processes that support efficient resource allocation as Xcimer scales.
• Define and evolve Xcimer's operational knowledge-management and information architecture (e.g., Confluence or similar), driving adoption and content hygiene across departments.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog of identified-but-unresourced operational process gaps across the company and recommend sequencing and resourcing to close them.
• Partner with other departments to map end-to-end business data workflows (e.g., Teamcenter, Boltline, ERP) and drive resolution of cross-team data and process gaps.
• Work with the Chief of Staff to translate decisions and action items from executive offsites and business reviews into resourced initiatives with clear owners, timelines, and follow-through.
• Identify, evaluate, and help mitigate operational risks and single points of failure across business operations functions.
• Partner with Finance to build and maintain the program-level economic models that connect technical and schedule decisions to long-run plant economics, capital requirements, and investment tradeoffs — feeding the assumptions Finance uses in its capital-markets and fundraising models — to support program prioritization and make/buy decisions.
• Partner with the Head of PMO to represent business-operations capacity and constraints (finance, procurement, IT, facilities, data systems) in program planning, ensuring program schedules are built against realistic…