Forward Deployed Operator
Kovari develops frontier technology to transform physical businesses. We partner with established operators to change how they run, and we build and operate businesses of our own through our subsidiaries.
We are a small team of builders, operators, and researchers. We deploy on site, alongside the businesses we serve, and iterate in the field. We have raised over $6M from leading investors.
We are based in San Francisco and work in person.
The Role:
You will own what happens when our robots meet a real business. You run deployments end to end: scoping a site, launching robots into live operations, earning the trust of the people who work alongside them, and turning a pilot into a portfolio-wide rollout.
This is not an account management role. You will be on the floor at 6am when a robot gets stuck, in the GM’s office making the case for expansion, and in the room with our engineers explaining what broke and why.
Travel is a must. Operators are deployed on site for months at a time, embedded with the businesses we serve.
What You’ll Do:
Own customer deployments from site assessment through launch, daily operations, and expansion
Map workflows at each property and design how robots fit into them
Train frontline staff and managers, and build the playbooks that make deployments repeatable
Run day‑to‑day operations: monitor performance, triage issues, and coordinate fixes with engineering
Be the primary point of contact for operators, from line staff to owners and asset managers
Measure and report impact: labor hours saved, service quality, uptime, and ROI
Identify expansion opportunities and drive pilots into multi‑property contracts
Turn field feedback into product priorities, and shape what we build next
Work across our own operating businesses as well as customer sites
What You Bring
Experience in operations, consulting, hospitality, or another role where you owned outcomes on the ground
Comfort with technology. You don’t need to write code, but you troubleshoot hardware, read logs, and learn systems fast
Credibility with operators: you can talk to a housekeeper and an owner in the same afternoon
Strong judgment under ambiguity, with no playbook and real stakes
A clear, structured communicator, both in writing and in the room
Willingness to travel extensively and live on site for many months at a stretch
Bonus: hotel, property management, logistics, or field engineering experience
Bias toward action: show up, figure it out, fix what breaks
Values
Pace of learning trumps everything.
Relentless refinement of our craft.
Low ego, high ownership.
All-in on the mission. We work in person, and this isn’t a 9‑to‑5.