Deployment Manager

The Role

Own Customer Deployments End-to-End

Lead Site Readiness and Deployment

Be the Customer's Delivery Owner

Coordinate Cross-Functional Execution

Build the UK Deployment Playbook

Essential

Strongly preferred

What success looks like

Why Join Hive?

Qualifications

• Essential
• Strong experience delivering complex projects in industrial, field or customer environments.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of deployments, implementations, commissioning or operational projects.
• Excellent planning, coordination and execution skills.
• Comfortable coordinating technical teams and non-technical customer stakeholders.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on mentality and ability to operate effectively when priorities change quickly.
• Strong safety mindset.
• Willingness to travel extensively across the UK.
• Professional fluency in English and authorization to work in the UK.
• Experience from industrial automation, robotics, autonomous systems, heavy equipment, material handling, warehousing, logistics, mining, construction, manufacturing, field engineering or field service.
• Experience working directly with industrial equipment or operational technology.
• What success looks like
• Hive's first UK customer deployments are delivered safely and successfully.
• Customers have clear ownership and confidence in Hive's execution.
• Deployment risks and dependencies are identified early and actively managed.
• Operations receives a stable, documented and operationally ready service at handover.
• Hive develops a repeatable UK deployment methodology that improves with every customer.
• Why Join Hive?
• Join Hive at a pivotal stage as we expand into the UK and build a new category in Physical AI. You’ll work with cutting-edge autonomy technology and a highly experienced team to bring autonomous industrial machines out of development and into real-world commercial operations.
• As we establish and scale our UK operations, you’ll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibility from day one, help shape how we operate in the UK, and build the playbooks for deploying and operating autonomous machines at scale..
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position may be filled before the application deadline. Early applications are encouraged. Hive values diversity and encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or background.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Own UK customer projects from delivery kickoff through successful operational handover.
• Build and maintain the integrated deployment plan across people, machines, hardware, software, logistics, site readiness, safety and customer dependencies.
• Establish clear milestones, owners, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
• Drive execution and escalate risks before they become delivery problems.
• Ensure deployments are delivered safely, on time and to the expected quality.
• Work directly with customers to prepare sites for deployment and go-live.
• Coordinate infrastructure, connectivity, machines, operating areas, safety requirements and operational procedures.
• Lead on-site deployment activities together with Hive Engineering and Operations.
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, testing, validation and acceptance activities.
• Act as the primary delivery counterpart for the customer.
• Maintain clear communication on progress, risks, decisions and dependencies.
• Coordinate customer stakeholders across operations, engineering, IT, HSE and management.
• Build trust through strong execution, ownership and transparency.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, QA and Operations.
• Translate customer and site requirements into clear internal actions.
• Coordinate technical resources during deployment and drive issues to resolution.
• Balance customer urgency with safety, quality and technical readiness.
• Develop repeatable deployment processes, templates and checklists.
• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve how Hive deploys.
• Help define the local capabilities, suppliers, facilities and resources required as the UK business scales.
• What We're Looking For
• Strong experience delivering complex projects in industrial, field or customer environments.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of deployments, implementations, commissioning or operational projects.
• Excellent planning, coordination and execution skills.
• Comfortable coordinating technical teams and non-technical customer stakeholders.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on mentality and ability to operate effectively when priorities change quickly.
• Strong safety mindset.
• Willingness to travel extensively across the UK.
• Professional fluency in English and authorization to work in the UK.
• Experience from industrial automation, robotics, autonomous systems, heavy equipment, material handling, warehousing, logistics, mining, construction, manufacturing, field engineering or field service.
• Experience working directly with industrial equipment or operational technology.
• Hive's first UK customer deployments are delivered safely and successfully.
• Customers have clear ownership and confidence in Hive's execution.
• Deployment risks and dependencies are identified early and actively managed.
• Operations receives a stable, documented and operationally ready service at handover.
• Hive develops a repeatable UK deployment methodology that improves with every customer.
• Join Hive at a pivotal stage as we expand into the UK and build a new category in Physical AI. You’ll work with cutting-edge autonomy technology and a highly experienced team to bring autonomous industrial machines out of development and into real-world commercial operations.
• As we establish and scale our UK operations, you’ll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibility from day one, help shape how we operate in the UK, and build the playbooks for deploying and operating autonomous machines at scale..
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position may be filled before the application deadline. Early applications are encouraged. Hive values diversity and encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or background.