Founder and CEO Industrial Shield
You will turn an industrial-safety thesis into a scalable business. You will define the initial mining market and buyer strategy, develop a three-sensor wearable device and dashboard, secure and deliver an initial paid pilot, establish the subscription model, use regulatory trends to create urgency, hire an initial team, raise capital, and position the venture as a category leader.
Responsibilities
- Define the initial mining geography, buyer, and procurement channel
- Develop the three-in-one wearable clip and dashboard into a pilot-ready product
- Convert introductions into a paid pilot with a mining or industrial operator
- Establish and test the per-worker subscription model, insurer co-funding, and partner-led distribution
- Use dust and heat regulation to create procurement urgency
- Hire the initial team, raise capital, and establish the venture as a category leader
Requirements
- Experience as a founder or senior operator building a hardware and software or IoT product from zero to one
- Familiarity with mining or heavy-industry health and safety, or enterprise construction
- Ability to sell preventative products to CFOs or health and safety directors and convert pilots into multi-year per-head contracts
- Ability to reason about sensors, edge computing, and device economics
- Ability to operate amid ambiguity and make decisions with incomplete data
- Credibility with industrial buyers and venture investors
- Willingness to be based in the United Kingdom or Australia
Benefits
- €275k of spin-out capital
- Studio budget
- Hands-on support across product, growth, fundraising, AI and machine learning, design, legal, and hiring
- Full-time venture builder support for the MVP
- Six months of operational support post-launch
- Introductions to investors and corporate partners
- A vetted concept and domain insight