Company Background:

At our Client, they're more than a company-they're a movement. A movement that's pushing the boundaries of what's possible in electric mobility. From engineering India's most advanced and fastest EV Products to designing The World's Most futuristic EVs, they thrive on innovation, audacity, and the relentless pursuit of performance.

They're a diverse team of trailblazers, engineers, designers, creatives and visionaries-united by a shared obsession: to craft machines that are not only sustainable but exhilarating.

Here, radical design meets intelligent technology, and every line of code or bolt of hardware brings us closer to reshaping the future of mobility.

Their mission is to accelerate the evolution of mobility across the globe - and they're just getting started. Their culture is powered by innovation, integrity, speed, and a relentless drive to be the BEST - Bold, Empowering, Stimulating, and Transformative.

ROLE : Chief Operations Officer (COO)

About the Role:

- The COO will be instrumental in steering the operational helm across organization toward efficiency and innovation. Tasked with many critical responsibilities, the COO's influence spans strategic planning, risk management and the integration of cutting-edge technologies. This role delves into the pivotal aspects of a COO, highlighting their involvement in vendor negotiations, crisis management, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, R&D, overseeing overall operational health of the organization and the forward-looking approaches of strategic business forecasting.

- By unpacking these key areas, we gain a deeper understanding of how COOs contribute to shaping robust, responsive, and competitive manufacturing operations in today's industrially advanced landscape. Team Engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, sourcing, R&D, and others will be key aspects having close cross functional coordination and / with there functional leaders. Should have strong experience within the B2C domain is must.

Reports To The Founder & Co-Founder

Job Objective & Key Interactions:

- Operational Strategy Development and Implementation

- Supply Chain Management and Optimization

- Technology Integration and Automation in Manufacturing Processes

- Cost Control and Budget Management

- Quality Assurance and Products Standards Compliance

- Workforce Management and Employee Development from Operational and Organizational Perspective

- Risk Management and Safety Protocols

- Inventory Management and Logistics Optimization

- Vendor and Supplier

- Crisis Management and Contingency Planning

- Strategic Planning and Long-Term Business Forecasting

- Representing Organization within Industry Forums / Conclaves / setting up Industry associations / Brand Building / Ensuring maximum visibility of the organization and brand both

- Handling Investor's / Board relationships

Skills / Knowledge / Certifications:

- Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills are essential

- Any Professional additional global certifications relevant to the role from well-regarded Institutes of repute / associations or equivalent

- Work experience in large manufacturing, R&D product driven growing organizations

- Prior working experience within in Start-ups or similar environment, will have added advantages.

- Should be willing to work in dynamic and changing environment.

- Good understanding to work on ERP is required.

- Ability to explain numbers with proper analysis and justification

- Ability to managing compliance and other statutory requirements for a legal entity

Education & Experience:

- Professionally qualified having Engineering degree from well-regarded institutes, preferably with Masters or PGD or any other equivalent education

- Minimum 20+ years of experience in managing operations within multiple functions across plant / Manufacturing growing companies.

Program Coordination:

- Coordinate cross-functional alignment among Engineering, Program, and Operations teams for effective execution of the project through SOP.

- Oversee program planning across design, prototyping, testing, and production readiness phases.

- Manage project budgets, timelines, and deliverables, ensuring interdependencies are tracked and resolved proactively.

- Align supply chain and partner readiness for build phases and validation cycles.

- Evaluate team bandwidth and capability gaps; define optimized workflows to improve coordination and accountability.

- Report program progress, risks, and mitigations through structured updates and leadership reviews.

Supply Chain:

- Lead cross-functional coordination among Sourcing, Quality, Engineering, and Production teams to ensure a smooth and scalable production ramp-up

- Develop and execute phased production plans aligned with quality, cost, and delivery targets.

- Identify and mitigate bottlenecks across supply chain, planning, and manufacturing operations.

- Resolve engineering and process issues impacting manufacturability or throughput.

- Assess team resource gaps and recommend structural or workflow improvements to strengthen execution capability.

- Establish clear review mechanisms, performance dashboards, and progress tracking for ramp milestones

- Drive supplier and internal readiness to meet capacity expansion goals.

Non-Negotiable:

(Mandatory skill sets / experience etc) Candidate should have worked either with the Start-Ups or having experience of working / setting up the Green / Brown fields projects or working / worked.

CTC RANGE - Fixed + PLI + ESOPs (Within INR 1 - 2 Crores)

USPs of the company / Leadership Team and the differentiator within the industry

Our client is one of the fastest growing organizations within the Electric Vehicle domain with very strong ambitions to make this as one of the most preferred Global Brand with a proud to say - This is MAKE IN INDIA.