Lead Deployment and Integration Strategist

Watney Robotics • San Francisco, CA

86d

About The Position

Watney develops autonomous robots to enable the growth of critical infrastructure. Having recently raised $21 million in seed funding from Conviction, Abstract and A*, we’re partnering with the world’s largest hyperscalers to accelerate datacenter buildout and breakfix. Join now for a ground-floor seat with outsized ownership and visibility as we scale from prototype to production fleets. Ship real systems, shape the rollout playbook, and leave fingerprints on a category-defining robotics company.

Requirements

• Customer-first operator (5–10 yrs): led high-stakes deployments/programs; measure success by outcomes, not activity.
• Executive presence: set expectations, run crisp updates, influence without authority.
• White-glove delivery: choreograph readiness and cutovers; define acceptance; deliver Day-1 value.
• Orchestration & rigor: plans, RAID, RACIs, calendars, dashboards; keep parallel workstreams on track.
• Calm in chaos: triage, decide, land fixes; turn chaos into closure.
• Eng → Ops fluency: translate between customers, ops, and engineering; concise writing, clean status, tight post-mortems.
• KPI-driven: own uptime, success rate, quality, response times; drive weekly rhythms and continuous improvement.
• Technical fluency (just enough): APIs/auth/networks/data pipelines; light scripting/log reading; Linux/containers/CI; observability.

Responsibilities

• Run deployments end-to-end: site surveys, security/network reviews, integration mapping, staged rollouts, cutovers.
• Build the ops machine: stand up runbooks/SOPs/dashboards; own uptime, task accuracy, MTTR/MTBF, quality; drive RCA and fixes.
• Close the loop: turn field findings into crisp requirements for autonomy/controls/teleops; prioritize changes that move metrics.
• Be the customer face: align operators/IT/execs on SLAs and acceptance; earn trust on-site and on calls.
• Make it repeatable: package playbooks + reusable integrations to scale from first sites → dozens → global.
• Ship integrations that stick: connect robots to DCIM/CMMS (ServiceNow), ticketing, inventory, IAM/SSO, networks/VLANs, observability; define/deliver APIs, schemas, webhooks, and queues (REST/gRPC, JSON, Kafka/MQTT).

Benefits

• Own the outcome: your work decides pilot → production at hyperscale.
• High visibility: direct line to founders and customer leadership.
• Build for scale: turn bespoke deployments into a repeatable, global rollout.
• Real impact: automate critical work in the world’s compute backbone.
• Travel: 50%-90% domestic travel to customer sites during pilot phases.

What This Job Offers