Support Nominal’s growth across corporate development, fundraising, investor relations, M&A, partnerships, FP&A, budgeting, go-to-market infrastructure, market research, organizational processes, compliance, communications, and talent initiatives. The role requires a versatile operator who can work cross-functionally, solve novel problems, manage changing priorities, and build scalable systems across the business.
About Nominal
Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world's most advanced hardware systems, from spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to next-generation defense programs. Our platform gives hardware engineering teams a single place to ingest data, analyze performance, automate test execution, and collaborate across every phase of development, so they can move faster without sacrificing safety or precision. We're a fast-moving team that owns problems end-to-end, works across disciplines, and thrives at the intersection of hardware and software.
We serve top-tier commercial and defense customers, from autonomy leaders like Anduril and Shield AI to next-generation aerospace teams like Hermeus and REGENT, and performance engineering teams like Pratt Miller Motorsports, alongside mission partners within the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force on programs where failure isn’t an option. We’re backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed. Our team draws from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies, united by a common mission: giving hardware engineers the tools to build the future with speed, safety, and confidence.
We're looking for a versatile operator to help build out Nominal's Business Operations function during a period of high growth. You'll have exposure to nearly every part of the business. This is a role for someone who thrives on variety, moves fast, and is energized by doing whatever it takes to help a company scale. The work will touch strategic planning, performance management, corporate development, investor relations, strategic partnerships, and more.
💼 What you'll do
- Run the business: Support operational rhythms, planning cadences, communications mediums, and more to ensure Nominal's strategy is translated into operational tactics and effectively cascaded throughout the org.
- Conduct financial planning and analysis: Support FP&A, budgeting, and capital allocation.
- Drive corporate development: Contribute meaningfully to fundraising, investor relations, M&A, and partnerships.
- Build scalable go-to-market infrastructure: Develop pricing & packaging, assist with marketing campaigns, and build other collateral to support scalable sales processes and monetization.
- Support new market entrance: Perform targeted research on new products, verticals, or geographies. Articulate value propositions and manage logistics for new initiatives.
- Build analytical rigor: Develop metrics and systems that enable Nominal's leadership to have data at their fingertips, improving the quality of decisions based on real-time, automated insights.
- Strengthen how we operate: Establish and maintain organizational processes and help build a best-in-class culture as the team scales. Work cross-functionally to build alignment across the business to solve novel problems.
- Pitch in wherever needed: Talent, compliance, communications – you'll do whatever it takes to accelerate the pace and raise the quality bar at Nominal.
🎯 We’re looking for someone with
- 5+ years of career experience, including in internal strategy, operations, & finance roles; (ideally) professional services background (management consulting, investment banking), or other fast-paced environments
- Comfort operating across functions and context-switching between different types of work; dynamic responsibilities excite you
- High EQ and the ability to work with a variety of personalities, functions, and seniority levels; you know how to generate buy-in without relying on hierarchy
- Strong analytical skills, with a bias toward thinking in quantitative results
- Problem solver with end-to-end ownership, from issue framing to resolution
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Clear communicator, both written and verbal
- Willingness to do whatever needs doing, quickly; low ego and bias to action
🚀 Skills that supercharge us
- Familiarity with hardware industries
- Technical fluency or an engineering background is a plus
✨ Benefits/Perks
- 🏥 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance (for you and your family)
- 🏖️ Unlimited paid vacation
- 👶 12 weeks parental leave
- 🌱 Fertility and family planning ($15,000 lifetime)
- 🍽️ Lunch provided daily
- 💪 Wellness stipend ($100/month)
- 🛠️ $500/year hardware sensor stipend
- 🚀 Learning and development stipend
- 💼 401(k)
- 📈 Employee-friendly equity terms
- 🏢 In-office 5 days per week
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
CompensationThe base pay range for this role is $125,000 – $250,000 per year.
Nominal New York, New York, USA Office
New York, NY, United States
Nominal New York, New York, USA Office
New York, NY, United States
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