Director of Mining Technology Operations
4 days ago
About the Role:
We are seeking a Director of Mining Technology Operations to lead our Rio Tinto Mining Tech Program. This role will be responsible for the operational delivery of our accelerator program, ensuring exceptional outcomes for our startups and partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operate a four-month cohort-based program supporting 12 pre-seed and seed stage startups per year
- Work closely with our partner Rio Tinto to establish relationships, problem statements, and facilitate commercial opportunities
- Build relationships with international founders, angels, VCs, and universities in the climate, deep tech, and mining tech sectors
- Support startups in the portfolio, connecting them to our operations team for specialist support
- Identify and unlock the unfair competitive advantage that our corporate partners can provide for each startup
- Prepare startups to work with our partner, Rio Tinto, evaluating piloting opportunities and enabling paths for commercial contracting
About You:
We are looking for someone with outstanding people skills, hustle, resilience, deep empathy with founders, and a high curiosity for technology and tech startups. You should have extensive experience building and scaling complex hardware or climate solutions, and selling those solutions into large-scale industrial customers. You will work directly with founders throughout the accelerator program, closely supporting them on building out their product, finding routes to commercialisation, defining their fundraising strategy, and supporting them to raise their next round of funding.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary and management company equity
- Pension and Private Healthcare
- 25 holidays (plus any statutory holidays)
- Hybrid environment: flexible working in a fast-paced environment
- Gender-neutral family leave policy
- Quarterly mental health days
- Travel to London HQ for bi-annual company-wide away days
About Founders Factory:
We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive environment where people can authentically be themselves and are free to challenge, take risks, and think creatively. We recruit, develop, compensate, and promote our team members based on merit, actively seeking out diversity of thought and experiences.
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