BizOps Associate

Every drone and robot is limited by the energy it can store, every satellite by the sunlight it can catch. Help us rewrite the rules with a beam of light. This is one of the first hires onto the operations team being built by Aquila's Head of Operations. You'll report directly to them, and be one of the first people they bring in as they stand the function up. This is not a single-function ops job. It's a generalist operations seat: the role will flex to whatever the business needs most at a given time, and your Head of Operations will point you at it. Right now that includes export control, demonstration logistics, and marketing our milestones. In three months it might mean tightening our outdoor laser testing and quality-gate process before a system leaves the lab. In six, it might be a completely different problem no one has spotted yet. You'll help find those problems as much as fix the ones already known about. ## What You Might Own: Your first few months will likely centre on the areas below - not because the role is limited to them, but because they're the sharpest problems on the table today: - **Export control and compliance:** Develop a repeatable strategy to ship our tech overseas. We have global customers waiting in line for our product launch and we want to ship it as soon as it’s ready. This means getting into the nitty gritty: DSGL/EAR documentation, coordinating with freight forwarders, and keeping international shipments compliant as we move hardware between Australia, the US, Germany, and Singapore. - **Demonstration logistics:** Plan and run the operational side of field demos (Fort Hood in November, German Bundeswehr trials, and whatever comes next) - equipment manifests, shipping, site prep, teardown. - **Testing and readiness:** Help tighten pre-deployment checklists and quality gates so systems leaving the lab are consistently tested and documented. Outdoor testing of our system requires significant engineering time for planning, setup, takedown, and coordination. You’ll be tapped to make this process more efficient. Beyond that, expect the job to move. Some things you might pick up as they surface: - Supply chain and vendor problems that are quietly costing the engineering team time - Whatever specific gap opens up as we scale toward the 2028 commercial deployment target - A recurring operational headache nobody has had the bandwidth to fix properly The common thread isn't a job function - it's to solve the most urgent problems, and the problems that are not seemingly urgent, but highly impactful. Spotting those before they surface is as much the job as executing on the ones we already know about. ## What You'll Bring: - **You're relentlessly curious.** You ask better questions than most people in the room, and that's how you learn fast from people who know more than you about their own domain. - **You're comfortable working with engineers - genuinely, not just tolerantly.** You'll spend most of your time embedded with a highly technical team. You don't need to be the deepest technical expert, but you need to want to be part of their team, not adjacent to it. - **You love solving problems for other people.** This role gets deployed out to wherever the company needs it. If "that's not my job" is a sentence you reach for, this isn't the role. - **You default to hands-on.** You'd rather spend a week in a warehouse or on a shipping dock sorting something out than write a memo about it. - **You have no ego about scope.** The job might be export paperwork one month and a testing process the next. Both matter equally. ## How We Work: You'll be given real visibility into business context, not just tasks - the reasoning behind a problem matters as much as the problem itself. Expect regular sessions with the rest of the operations team to compare notes on what's quietly becoming a bigger risk across the company, and expect to be moved onto whatever needs you most, then moved again once it's someone else's turn. ## Why This Role Matters: Aquila is small enough that one person in this seat changes what the company can take on. The engineers can only move as fast as the business side lets them - and right now, a lot of what's slowing them down is unowned. This role is a bet that a genuinely curious generalist, given real trust and real context, will find and fix more of those problems than a narrow specialist hired against today's org chart. ## Aquila Perks & Benefits - Everyone is an owner. In addition to excellent base compensation, everyone owns equity in the company, so we all benefit from our hard work and future success. - Generous paid parental leave. We offer eight weeks of parental leave above the government-allocated amount. - Relocation budget & support. Support for interstate or overseas team members and their families (including pets!). - Flexible working hours and location. While we often enjoy shooting lasers around in our fully decked-out laser facilities, if there are days when we can work from anywhere, then we feel free to work from anywhere! - Generous Personal Leave. At Aquila, we recognise that sometimes you need time off to recuperate, look after your mental health, or deal with an emergency. We provide unlimited (within reason) personal leave to empower you to bring your best self to work every day, and you are always paid for days taken off as personal leave. - We care about our people: At Aquila, we don't focus on what our people can do for us; we focus on what we can do for our people. As part of our commitment to our people, we provide an annual $1k budget for side projects, health, gizmos and gadgets you want to develop, skills you want to learn, and ways you want to grow outside work. - Company-wide social events: offsite hiking and/or skiing through beautiful Australian landscapes, annual end-of-year celebrations, and much more! - Great, decked-out office! An inclusive community and culture in a welcoming office with lasers, cutting-edge hardware, snacks, and actual tech you can tinker with (within the bounds of safety). Aquila welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and has around 40% female representation on our team. Join our team and help us build an infinitely scalable energy network that powers a more abundant, limitless, and sustainable future!