Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Safety Bolt

We're Safety Bolt and given our recent 2.6MEUR fundraise and 13M LOI, we're seeking highly driven, top 1% talent to join our team and scale our monitoring solution to a €b Infrastructure market.

If you're simply looking for a job, this is not for you. We seek highly motivated people who proactively and obsessively strive to solve novel problem all the way to product launch and beyond, fundamentally changing the way we build, maintain and monitor physical structures.

With an ex. McKinsey leadership, we have developed and patented industry leading technology over the last 7 years and recently reached a technical breakthrough, enabling, a oversubscribed seed round with top tier investors (to be announced), selected as Swedens top 33 startups, chosen out of 3400 startups to the NATO DIANA program and received an Letter Of Intent to purchase 47 000 sensors.

Vision: Become the leading structural integrity data provider globally

Target: Volume production & distribution of retrofitted sensor, providing 20y of structural integrity data

Culture: Truth seeing, high agency, pragmatic, entrepreneurial and hypotesis driven.

Seeking: Exceptional; Drive, Intelligence and Integrity. Lead rather than follow.

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The Role

You will be given ownership in the company, and you will take full ownership of end-to-end operations: growing the company at high pace and in high uncertainty. This role is not for passively benefiting from a rapid valuation increase; it is about actively driving that increase yourself. I will give you a broad mandate and responsibility for all operations, with a gradually wider scope that reaches into commercial and strategic territory. You will work closely with me, and you will run Safety Bolt's operations end to end so that I can concentrate on strategic customers, partnerships, and capital. The scope covers the commercial pipeline, finance, hiring, compliance, and the administrative machinery that holds a scaling company together. Some of that work is large and some of it is administrative. You do both, and you build the automation that makes the administrative part shrink every month.

I will not chase you and I will not hand you a task list. You set the agenda; you are not handed one. That takes drive that comes from inside, and it takes maturity: you manage your own ego, and you can say you were wrong without it costing you anything. In practice this role sits close to a co-founder, with a path to extensive leadership of the company. One honest filter: if you mainly want to direct work rather than do it, or you need the plan handed to you, this is not your role.

What success looks like

The first target is concrete: convert the signed Letter of Intent — 47,000 sensors, €13M — into delivered, invoiced revenue. By our own math, delivering that alone supports roughly six times today's valuation. Our internal target is thirty times within four years, and the market underneath it is far larger than that target. I measure this role against those numbers, and I want you to read them the way I do: as the multiplier on your own stake.

What you will do

• Build an AI-first organization with me from the ground up: every recurring process, from pipeline to reporting to admin, gets automated before it gets a headcount
• Take ownership of the day-to-day operations, and take the proactive lead on decisions from your first week
• Convert the signed Letter of Intent for 47,000 sensors into delivered, invoiced revenue
• Build the commercial pipeline end to end: who buys, what we say, what it costs, how long it takes, and what shortens it
• Over time, take ownership of the financial engine: cash plan, monthly close, board and investor reporting, and preparation of the next round
• Recruit and onboard the next wave of hires, and build the operating structure they work inside
• Own compliance and certification readiness together with the CTO, ahead of the first industrial deployments
• Extend your role wherever you see you can add the most value, and shape the company's vision and path with me

Must have

• 2+ years at a top-tier strategy consultancy (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or equivalent, with the analytical toolkit and pace that implies
• Experience from an early-stage startup in an exposed, leading position with real skin in the game. You need to know what full ownership looks like
• Demonstrated ability to operate across many domains at once: commercial, financial, operational, and administrative
• High agency and self-direction: you decide what matters next without being told, and you take it to conclusion
• Practical fluency with AI as a working tool. You use it daily, you have built automations other people depend on, and you can show them

Nice to have

• Founder or co-founder of a company; commercial success is not a requirement
• Background in or commercial exposure to heavy industry: wind energy, mining, marine, oil and gas, or infrastructure
• Experience with hardware businesses, and an understanding of their development requirements and commercial sales cycles
• Experience preparing or running a venture fundraise
• Experience building and leading a team through a period of rapid headcount growth

What you get

Options from the company's option pool. I am not going to put a percentage in a job ad, but I will be direct in person: for the right person, this is a real opportunity to earn very significant ownership in what we are building. A competitive salary on top. And full transparency from day one: you see the numbers, the pipeline, the cap table and the runway, because I do not think you can take real ownership without them.

Education

MSc in, Business, Economics, or equivalent. The academic background matters less here than demonstrated judgement and delivery, but the analytical foundation is expected.

Experience level

8+ years combining top-tier consulting with early-stage startup operating experience. I am looking for someone ready to run a company, not someone learning to.