Associate, Business Operations

About Nimble

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to enable fast, efficient, and sustainable commerce. We’re developing a general-purpose robot AI and a warehouse generalist superhumanoid robot, the first robot in the world capable of performing all core warehouse functions. We recently closed a $106M Series C at a $1B valuation, and we are continuing to grow our world-class team.

Mission: to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.

Vision: invent the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by industry-generalist superhumanoids to deliver faster, more efficient, and more sustainable commerce.

Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), Sebastian Thrun (founder of Google

X, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles) and Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab).

Join us and leave your mark on the future of robotics, AI, and global commerce.

Link:
Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with Fed Ex

Link:
Fed Ex Announces Expansion of Fed Ex Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance

At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.

• Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles.
• Be legendary - Be the very best and do work that inspires.
• Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.
• Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency.

Nimble's Business Operations team is embedded in daily operations, supporting both near-term execution and long-term planning through financial analysis and broader business decision-making and strategy. Team members are expected to analyze data, provide recommendations and lead cross-functional decision-making and implementation of strategies. The Business Operations team is lean and dynamic, supporting all functions at Nimble: engineering and supply chain, manufacturing, fulfillment operations, service, construction, and sales.

• Partner with leaders across Nimble's operational verticals to drive cost reduction, improve operational efficiency, and identify and implement measures to scale
• Define and monitor KPIs to evaluate business performance and identify/execute recommendations to drive business improvement
• Create and drive adoption of operational processes to increase productivity and efficiency
• Define and implement critical software systems to support scale: engineering, supply chain, manufacturing
• Be deeply embedded in operations to drive execution of Nimble's forecast and support business planning to ensure capex investments and labor capacity support company growth targets

• 4+ years of experience in an analytical/operational role
• Evidence of exceptional ability, especially in an ambiguous environment
• Demonstrated success driving tangible impact / influence within a broader organization
• Excellent analytical skills (e.g. Microsoft Office applications, financial modeling, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication, with experience leading timelines with cross-functional partners and communicating effectively to executives
• Creative, intellectually curious, and able to scale steep learning curves quickly
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, partnering with stakeholders to drive business performance

• 1-3 years in management consulting or investment banking
• Operational finance experience in a hard-tech company (e.g. hardware engineering, manufacturing, physical operations)
• Financial modeling

$125,000 - $180,000 a year

The above range is the base salary range. You…