Manager of Workplace Operations

Are you a proactive and resourceful professional passionate about creating a seamless working environment for a growing team? Do you have a knack for managing vendor relationships with a hands-on approach, ensuring quick and effective solutions?

We are in search of a Manager of Workplace Operations, someone with strong experience in facility and vendor management. This role is crucial for stabilizing our current setups and developing efficient processes to make repairs and upgrades swift and painless for the entire team.

As a member of our team, you'll be the single point of contact between Cobot and our IT and facilities suppliers/contractors. You'll collaborate with our teams in Santa Clara and Seattle to execute necessary repairs and upgrades, with a sense of urgency to keep things moving smoothly.

Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction. We are working to realize a world where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around.

This role is located at our Santa Clara, CA headquarters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure Robust IT Infrastructure: Serve as liaison with local IT to troubleshoot and identify paths for enhancing the IT infrastructure.

• Ensure Physical Security: Own setting up and maintaining physical security of our buildings and our employees in those buildings.

• Vendor Management: Manage IT, facilities, and security vendors and service providers, ensuring high-quality and cost-effective services.

• Budget Management: Develop and manage the facilities budgets, and serve as a key contributor to the IT budget, acting as a voice of the customer.

• Hands-On Problem Solving: Step in to address urgent employee-impacting IT or facility issues.

• Visitor Experience: Own the visitor procedures and guest experience, in addition to influencing the employee experience at Cobot facilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in facilities management with some amount of IT vendor management experience.

• Proficiency in managing suppliers.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

• Experience in budget management and vendor coordination.

• Highly motivated teammate with excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic start-up environment as part of a small team.

• Willing to travel as needed (likely no more than twice quarterly).

• Must have and maintain US work authorization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.

• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.

• Technical expertise in both IT and facilities management.

• Strong project management skills and the ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously.

The base salary range for this position is $120,000-$150,000 plus equity and comprehensive benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and experience level. The range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position in Santa Clara, CA. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Cobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.

To all recruitment agencies: Cobot does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our employees. Cobot is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.