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title: 'Commercial Launch & Deployment Manager at Mill'
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# Commercial Launch & Deployment Manager at Mill

- **Company:** Mill
- **Location:** San Bruno, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-06-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mill/jobs/4702781005

## Job description

Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial—the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills.

## The Role

Are you someone who thrives in an environment where physical hardware meets high-stakes operational challenges? Have you executed complex new product introductions (NPI) or scaled infrastructure solutions across commercial business footprints?  Have you coordinated activities across multiple customers simultaneously?

As the Commercial Launch & Deployment Manager, you will serve as the tactical execution lead for Mill’s commercial launch and expansion. You will work closely with our Head of Deployments and the Operations team to transition our business from initial commercial pilots to full-scale enterprise operations. This is a fast-paced operational orchestration role designed for an exceptional, detail-oriented leader.

## Key Responsibilities

1. Site Readiness & Launch Program Management

- Help to develop, iterate and support the "Mill Commercial Site Readiness Checklist" and launch playbooks across heterogeneous commercial kitchen, grocery and other food service configurations
- Build and maintain the integrated master launch schedule for all customers bridging Hardware Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, Field Operations, and Partner Success teams.
- Lead daily/weekly cross-functional syncs to mitigate risks and work through bottlenecks, tracking critical paths to ensure hitting committed deployment schedules.

1. Vendor Management & Third-Party Orchestration

- Manage third-party vendors needed for successful deployments.
- Act as the escalation lead for field issues during active deployments, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are rigorously maintained through installation phases.
- Audit vendor performance, ensuring work conforms to Mill's standards, technical specs, and partner-specific security or access requirements.

1. Partner Success & Sustaining Operations Hand-off

- Partner deeply with the commercial account team to translate complex technical workflows into simplified, high-adoption standard operating procedures (SOPs) for grocery kitchen staff.
- Co-develop and deploy training curricula, localized quick-reference documentation, and train-the-trainer frameworks optimized for high-turnover service environments.

## Who You Are

- Hardware Deployment Experience: You have a proven track record of shipping or deploying physical hardware products. Backgrounds in enterprise IoT, commercial charging/energy infrastructure, commercial appliances, or industrial supply chain hardware deployments are highly valued.
- An Operations Mindset: You possess a tactical, "measure twice, cut once" philosophy. You are comfortable interfacing with a lot of people daily and dealing with logistics, general contractors, loading docks, and facilities managers.
- Cross-Functional Liaison: You know how to translate technical constraints to corporate leaders and floor managers alike with clarity, empathy, and absolute professionalism.
- AI-enabled Approach: You err on the side of diving into optimizing workflows through applying AI to help scale at increasing speed and efficiency.

## Qualifications & Requirements

- 4+ years of program management, field operations, or hardware launch experience, with at least 2 years specifically dedicated to B2B, commercial infrastructure, or enterprise hardware environments.
- Technical literacy; comfortable diving into hardware specifications, electrical/space constraints, facility architectural diagrams, and network connectivity profiles.
- Willingness to travel nationally up to 50% during peak site-deployment and validation cycles.
- Experience operating within health, safety, food-handling, or building compliance frameworks (OSHA, NSF, UL, etc.) is a distinct advantage.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $150k to $170k, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs. At Mill, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role.

## About Mill

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mill makes it easy to keep food out of landfills with innovative, odorless food recycling solutions for homes, workplaces, and cities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Bruno, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (founded by a team from Nest Labs / Google, though specific names are not widely publicized)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Environmental Services / Consumer Hardware & Software
- Target customers: B2C (homeowners), B2B (grocery and food service partners via Mill Commercial)
- Mission: To eliminate waste for good, starting with the food that ends up in landfills. The goal is to turn kitchen scraps into food for chickens, keeping food in the food system and out of landfills.

## Products & Services
- **Mill Food Recycler (Home)**: An odorless, effortless food recycling bin for the home. It uses intelligent tech to dehydrate and reduce food volume by 80% overnight. Users do not need to press a button; the device senses how much is added. The resulting grounds are shipped to Mill's small-farm partners for use as chicken feed. Type: Consumer Hardware + Service (subscription).
- **Mill Commercial**: A new solution for grocery stores and food service businesses to manage food waste at scale, leveraging the same core technology. Type: B2B Hardware + Service.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $170.8M across 6 rounds [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mill)
- **Key Metric**: 21,000,000+ pounds of food kept out of landfills [mill.com](https://www.mill.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Prelude Ventures (led Series C), Climate Pledge Fund (Amazon), and others [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mill)
- **Growth Signals**: 110 total employees [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mill) (LinkedIn reports 548, likely including contractors/partners) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mill); 14 active job postings as of mid-2026; launch of Mill Commercial; headcount growth of +0.4% monthly [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mill)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware + Software Moat**: The combination of a custom hardware appliance, embedded firmware, and a computer vision AI engine creates a difficult-to-replicate system.
- **Network Effect**: The more users Mill has, the more food waste is diverted, strengthening their supply chain of grounds for chicken feed and their partnerships with farms.
- **Brand & Design**: A strong focus on industrial design and user experience (odorless, effortless, beautiful) differentiates it from compost pails and garbage disposals.
- **Climate Impact**: Directly addresses methane emissions from landfills (methane is 80x more potent than CO2), giving it a strong mission-driven narrative.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Home Business**: Expanding the subscriber base for the home food recycler.
- **Launching Mill Commercial**: Entering the B2B market with grocery and food service partners to capture waste upstream.
- **International Expansion**: Likely future focus, given the global scale of food waste.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are directly working on climate change, keeping food out of landfills.
- **Hybrid Work**: Hybrid work environment (typical time on-site: 2 days a week) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mill).
- **Culture**: Described as a mix of hardware, software, and AI engineering with a startup feel. Offers company equity, 401(K), generous parental leave, free snacks, and company-sponsored family events [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mill).
- **Engineering Focus**: Heavy investment in hardware engineering (San Bruno) and software/AI (Computer Vision). Roles include Hardware Test Engineer, Senior Firmware Engineer, AI Engineer (Computer Vision), and Product Design Engineer [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/Mill).
- **Employee Rating**: 3.4/5.0 on LinkedIn (23 reviews), with Culture rated 3.7 and Compensation rated 3.6 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mill).

## Sources
1. [mill.com](https://www.mill.com/)
2. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/Mill)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mill)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mill)

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