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Chief Operating Officer

  2025-06-24     AUTZU     Santa Rosa,CA  
Description:

Autzu is a mobility-tech company driving the transformation of urban transportation. Our goal is to enable a sustainable, efficient future by building the infrastructure needed for electric and autonomous for-hire vehicles. With innovation at our core, we're reshaping urban mobility and setting new standards for city travel.


We're looking for a COO who is an entrepreneurial, hands-on builder, and leader to grow and manage Autzu's operations in our rebuild & expansion phase. This role is responsible for leading Company wide operations, launching new sites, building out operational teams, manage multinational markets operational needs, setting a growth strategy and executing ruthlessly against it.


To be successful in this role, you should be a thoughtful leader and a confident decision-maker, helping our people develop and be productive while ensuring our profits are on the rise. Ultimately, you'll help our company grow and thrive.


Responsibilities

  • Oversee day-to-day growth operations - from high-level strategy to local level issues
  • Assist in budgeting and optimizing expenses, building out the multi market operations team, and manage partnerships.
  • Design strategy and set goals for growth across our US and Canadian markets
  • Manage and negotiate contracts with vendors and partnerships
  • Set policies and processes to maximize team productivity
  • Work with and help build out our Fleet, Marketing, Customer Success, and Operation teams to create processes to enter, maintain, and expand operations in new cities.
  • Oversee new management hires and training of new employees
  • Evaluate and improve operations and financial performance
  • Direct the employee assessment process
  • Prepare regular reports for upper management and work directly with our CEO and CFO
  • Ensure staff follows company regulations
  • Provide solutions to issues (e.g. profit decline, employee conflicts, loss of business to competitors)


Qualifications

  • Proven experience (5+ years) as a an Operational Leader, CEO/COO
  • BSc/BA in Business or relevant field; MBA, MSc/MA is a plus
  • Have personally launched New Markets and managed vendors, contracts negotiations and multiple markets.
  • Ability to manage high level partnerships, presentations, and development.
  • Knowledge of the Mobility, EV, ride-share type of industry is highly valued
  • Fleet management experience is a Bonus
  • Experience in planning, strategy and budgeting in a startup setting
  • Knowledge of business processes and functions (finance, HR, procurement, operations, etc.)
  • Strong analytical ability
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Outstanding organizational and leadership skills
  • Problem-solving aptitude


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