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 of about 100 engineers and technicians, with backgrounds 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 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 enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office.

About You and This Role

We’re scaling up the number of construction projects (“deployments”) and the robots and humans involved, and are looking for extremely versatile team members who want to own all aspects of delivering these projects. This role is a unique blend of 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 analyzing your deployment’s P&L and coming up with a plan to improve margins through better processes and changes to our product.

You’ll have an extraordinary amount of autonomy in this role, making it an excellent fit if you’ve been a startup founder before or are actively seeking a very entrepreneurial position.

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 considering 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 general contractors and other stakeholders; and representing the company and sharing our story. You’re comfortable speaking with everyone from scaffold builders to CEOs of major contractors and our engineers, all in 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.
• Fluency in Dutch is required due to the local nature of the construction industry.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort speaking with a broad range of personas.
• Willingness to get your hands (literally) dirty to get the job done.
• Strong bias-to-action and a “getting-shit-done” mentality, with the required tenacity and speed. The emphasis of this role is execution, not analysis.
• Comfort 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, and it might 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, 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.

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.