Chief Operating Officer

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 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