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title: 'Director, Northeast Field Operations at Vessel Technologies'
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# Director, Northeast Field Operations at Vessel Technologies

- **Company:** Vessel Technologies
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-12-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel/48c535dc-e6f8-4307-95f9-12fbfbc0dac7

## Job description

## About Vessel

Vessel is a New York City-based technology company on a mission to overcome the housing crisis and give every person the opportunity for an extraordinary life. We believe the solution isn’t simply to build housing faster or cheaper. It’s to fundamentally reinvent the building itself. By bringing together advanced design, engineering, manufacturing, and technology, we’ve created Calypso—a revolutionary new apartment building designed to deliver an exceptional living experience at a fraction of the cost and in dramatically less time than conventional construction. Backed by institutional leaders including Lennar, we’re turning an entirely new approach to housing into reality. And we’re just getting started.

## The Role

You own everything on site for Calypso projects in the Northeast, from mobilization to certificate of occupancy: schedule, budget, safety, quality and the inspector relationship. You'll build our in-house construction management function from scratch.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead the Northeast field team. You inherit a working team, raise its standard, and hire where we need depth.
- Deliver every project. From mobilization to certificate of occupancy, you own schedule, budget, safety and quality, including cranes, deliveries, subcontractors and inspections.
- Be the building department's first call. You build the relationships and resolve code issues on site.
- Make the product easier to build. You give our plant and engineers direct field feedback on what installs cleanly and what doesn't, and it goes into the next design revision.
- Build the tools that run the field. You work with our engineering and software people to develop new technology (tracking, scheduling, QC, installation guidance) that makes crews faster and sites more predictable. You say what the field needs, you test it on live projects, and you drive adoption.
- Write the playbook. You turn each project's lessons into checklists, install sequences and quality gates that any crew in any region can run.
- Own the numbers. You hold the field budget and forecast, and you flag variances early.
- Run safety and QC. You build and enforce programs that make a safe site and a clean inspection the norm.

## What You Bring

- 12+ years in ground-up multifamily construction, including senior superintendent or PM time on many mid-size (roughly 20–150 unit) projects
- A record of on-time, on-budget delivery you can quantify
- Deep knowledge of means and methods, MEP/envelope coordination, inspections and Northeast codes (NY/NJ/CT a plus)
- Experience hiring and managing field teams and subcontractors
- Comfort building better tools when they fall short
- Direct, written communication

At Vessel, we’re not interested in doing things the way they’ve always been done. We’re building an entirely new way to create housing—and that requires rethinking everything, including how buildings are delivered in the field. We’re looking for someone with the imagination to challenge convention, the intellect to solve complex problems, and the tenacity to turn ambitious ideas into reality. This isn’t an opportunity to manage construction as usual. It’s an opportunity to help reinvent an industry—and make extraordinary housing attainable for millions of people. If that sounds like the kind of challenge you’ve been looking for, we’d love to meet you.

## About Vessel Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vessel Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes revolutionary multifamily apartment buildings engineered to lower construction costs, reduce risk, and deliver sustainable, technology-enhanced homes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup/VC-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Neil Rubler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Real Estate, Construction Technology (PropTech/ConTech), Multifamily Housing
- **Target customers**: B2B – Landowners, developers, and operators who want to build multifamily housing (market rate, workforce, student, senior, and affordable/income-restricted). Also serves municipalities and community partners.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To offer each person an equal opportunity for an extraordinary life by providing access to homes that are exciting, sustainable, and attainably priced.” (vesseltechnologies.com)

## Products & Services
- **[Calypso]**: A midrise multifamily building system using a panelized, factory-manufactured system that ships flat and is assembled on site. Includes structural system (steel), interior/exterior walls, cabinetry, full interior fit-out, elevators, stairwells, sprinklers, lighting, and building-control systems (Vessel Intelligence). Delivered as a complete, ready-to-occupy building. Features nine-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, in-unit washer/dryers, and is 100% electric and solar-compatible. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total units – has completed 2 buildings (36 units) in the Northeast, has 4 buildings (278 units) under construction, and a pipeline of ~1,600 units predominantly in the Northeast and Florida. Oldest building has been operating for over three years with strong resident retention and renewal rates. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; Built In notes the company offers equity and performance bonuses, suggesting VC or institutional backing.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding from initial Northeast projects into Florida; factory-manufactured panel system enables rapid build (6 months per building); targeting sites as small as 0.5 acres that are uneconomical for conventional development.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Factory-built panel system** reduces construction time to ~6 months, eliminates change orders, and provides fixed per-unit pricing ($140,000–$155,000 per unit) – a significant moat against traditional construction with its delays and cost overruns.
- **Universal Design (“Yoga”)** philosophy ensures spaces work for people of all ages, sizes, and abilities (from children to seniors to wheelchair users).
- **Sustainability edge**: 100% electric, solar-compatible, triple-glazed windows, R-21 insulation, designed for net-zero operations; Energy Star compliant. Older building has performed well for 3+ years.
- **Vessel Intelligence**: Integrated smart building controls (HVAC, lighting, sound) with APIs for operator security systems, providing differentiation in resident experience.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities are scaling production through factory manufacturing and expanding geographic footprint (Northeast and Florida markets). Targeting smaller, infill sites (as small as 0.5 acres) that traditional developers avoid.
- Focus on entitlement partnerships with landowners and communities, offering feasibility studies and fixed-price contracts to de-risk development.
- Emphasizing sustainability and energy efficiency as core product features, aligning with regulatory trends toward electrification and net-zero buildings.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture** with a clear social impact goal: addressing the housing crisis for over 50 million American families.
- **Hybrid workspace** – headquarters in New York, NY, with on-site work in Connecticut as well (Trade Partner Operations Manager role is on-site in CT). (builtin.com)
- **Compensation & equity**: Offers company equity, performance bonuses, 401(K), and disability insurance. (builtin.com)
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Has a dedicated diversity and inclusion staff and a documented equal pay policy. (builtin.com)
- **Perks**: Health insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), technology-forward work environment.
- **Culture described as**: “We hustle hard, innovate boldly, and settle for nothing less than extraordinary… We're looking for visionaries who are relentless in their craft, hungry to build what’s next.” (vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Working on a physical product that combines construction, manufacturing, systems engineering, and smart building technology – ideal for those who want to build tangible, impactful infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [Vessel Technologies – About](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/)
2. [Vessel Technologies – FAQ](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
3. [Vessel Technologies – Careers](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
4. [Vessel Technologies – Lever Jobs](https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel)
5. [Built In – Vessel Technologies Profile](https://builtin.com/company/vessel-technologies-inc)

## Other roles at Vessel Technologies

- [Senior Accountant](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-accountant-vessel-technologies-new-york-bg3ypvpd3fdt) — New York, NY
- [Head of Operations](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-operations-vessel-technologies-new-york-fvw19az79ygm) — New York, NY