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# Senior Staff Deployment Strategist, Operations at ALSO

- **Company:** ALSO
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ridealso/758152ed-951a-4579-a9db-15839f25001d

## Job description

About ALSO.

We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.

ALSO is becoming a manufacturer, with serialized vehicles moving from production lines to customers. The systems to manage that transition largely don’t exist yet.

You’ll build ALSO’s operating system for making and moving vehicles—from CM production to the customer’s door—creating a single source of truth for planning, quality, inventory, delivery, and decision-making. Today, much of this runs on spreadsheets and tribal knowledge; you’ll turn it into scalable systems and close the loop so decisions happen within them.

As the Senior Staff Deployment Strategist, Operations, you’ll help take ALSO from startup to a mature, class-leading operator. You’ll report to our Director of Enterprise Data and work closely with supply chain, manufacturing, quality, finance, and commercial teams. There are no direct reports today; you’ll lead through architecture, code, and influence.

## What You Will Do

- Build end-to-end visibility from factory to customer: WIP, first-pass yield, as-built genealogy from module to vehicle, inventory down to supplier-held stock, and shipment status.
- Build the planning engine across both supply chains, what we buy from our CMs and what we assemble ourselves: material planning at SKU-by-day, available-to-promise, and the build and fulfillment queues.
- Run the supplier loop: PO confirmations, promise dates, RFQs, design changes, the forecast we release to tiers 1 through 3, and component pricing with effectivity.
- Run the physical moves: booking, importation and track-and-trace from CM to 3PL to customer, plus the visibility feed out of our CMs’ own systems.
- Close the quality loop: incoming and inline quality, deviations and trends, warranty tracing, and a defect traced to a supplier chargeback that lands in the financial system.
- Settle buy-versus-build by shipping: stand up a thin, disposable app for quality, transport and warehouse visibility, run the process instrumented, and let evidence pick the platform we buy later.
- Engineer the process before you automate it: instrument how the work actually runs, including the exceptions nobody wrote down, delete the steps that exist only because two systems could not talk, then automate what survives. Paving the cowpath faster is not the job.
- Ship with coding agents in days rather than quarters.
- Embed with the team that owns a process, automate it with them, and leave them able to change it themselves. Success is the owner shipping their own improvements, not filing tickets for you.

## What You Will Bring

- 8+ years building operations, manufacturing or supply chain software from zero to production, owning the data model and decision logic. Technical degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Daily LLM-native development with coding agents such as Claude, and a real method for proving model output correct: contracts, tests, evals and review.
- A track record of rapid iteration: working software in users’ hands in days, then improved from how it actually gets used.
- Deep SaaS platform expertise: integrating QMS, TMS, WMS or ERP into one data platform, and the judgment to know when a package earns its place and when it is the slow path.
- Python, SQL and API fluency, plus enough physical-operations sense to turn conflicting data into one honest picture.
- Comfort earning an unfamiliar team's trust, and moving to the next constraint once the automation is live.
- Willingness to travel internationally to our contract manufacturers in Taiwan when the work calls for it.

This role includes regular on-site presence in Palo Alto, time on the warehouse floor, and occasional international travel. The salary for this position ranges from $170,000 to $225,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.

## Perks and Benefits

- Robust health coverage. Excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options.
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
- Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) match.

Why ALSO.

We’re passionate about helping the world find a better way to get there—wherever it is you’re headed.

We’re located in the heart of Silicon Valley and have brought together a world-class team from some of the biggest brands in the technology, automotive, cycling, outdoor recreation and retail spaces.

Together we’re working hands-on to imagine, design and build an entirely new solution to a global set of transportation challenges.

## About ALSO

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ALSO is an electric mobility company designing and building small, vertically integrated electric vehicles for moving people and goods, originally incubated within Rivian.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, Unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed; the company was formed as a stealth team within Rivian before spinning out as an independent entity.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Manufacturing / Electric Mobility
- **Target customers**: B2C (urban consumers) and B2B (logistics, delivery, and transportation partners)
- **Mission**: To build the world’s best small vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous, with a focus on sustainability and rethinking transportation from first principles.

## Products & Services
Based on publicly available information, ALSO has not yet announced specific product names beyond the “TM” and “TM-” references on its website. The company is developing a vertically integrated technology platform that spans motors, batteries, electronics, and software. Its product lineup includes small EVs for both consumer and commercial use, with a flagship vehicle set to launch in early 2026.

- **[Flagship Small EV (unnamed)]**: A vertically integrated, small electric vehicle for urban and commercial use. It combines in-house powertrain, battery, electronics, and autonomy software. Launch expected in early 2026, initially in the U.S. and Europe. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/news)
- **Commercial Platform**: ALSO works with logistics, delivery, and transportation partners to deliver custom solutions at scale. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/company)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1–2.5B (unicorn status) as of March 2026 (latest valuation per Dealroom). [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/companies/ridealso-com/)
- **Total Funding**: $505M across four rounds.
  - Corporate Round (Feb 2025) – 1 investor
  - Series B (Mar 2025) – $105M led by Eclipse
  - Venture Round (Aug 2025) – $200M led by Greenoaks
  - Series C (Mar 2026) – $200M led by Greenoaks, with participation from other investors
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eclipse Ventures, Greenoaks. ALSO works with commercial partners in logistics and transportation sectors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 290.9% year-over-year to 205 employees (LinkedIn, as of mid-2026). The company is actively hiring 48 open positions across engineering, product, and operations. It operates in five countries (U.S., Taiwan, U.K., South Africa, China). Strong talent inflow from Rivian (56 employees), Tesla, Apple, and Cruise. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ridealso)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Technology**: In-house development of motors, batteries, electronics, and software enables a tightly optimized, high-performance EV platform.
- **Rivian Pedigree**: Originally incubated within Rivian, benefiting from automotive rigor and advanced software/autonomy expertise.
- **Focus on Small EVs**: Addresses a rapidly growing market segment where 80% of car trips are under 15 miles, with urban population projected to reach 7 billion by 2050.
- **Strong Financial Backing**: $505M in funding from top-tier investors, providing ample runway for product launch and scaling.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Launch**: Introduce the flagship small EV in early 2026, first in the U.S. and Europe, then globally.
- **Commercial Expansion**: Deepen partnerships with logistics, delivery, and transportation companies to scale custom vehicle solutions.
- **Technology Platform**: Continue to advance in-house autonomy, sensing, and connectivity features to differentiate the user experience.
- **Talent Growth**: Rapidly hiring across engineering, design, and operations to support product development and future scaling.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Employees are described as “builders, technologists, designers, and dreamers” focused on creating sustainable, delightful mobility.
- **High-Growth Environment**: Headcount has tripled year-over-year, offering early employees significant impact and career acceleration.
- **Top-Tier Team**: Colleagues come from Rivian, Tesla, Apple, Cruise, and other elite companies, fostering a culture of craft and excellence.
- **Technical Depth**: Opportunities to work on cutting-edge EV hardware, software, autonomy, and battery systems. Open roles include Senior Software Engineer (ML), Motor Controls Engineer, Battery Design Engineer, and Staff Reliability Engineer.
- **Office Locations**: Hubs in Palo Alto (vehicle engineering, software, design), Seattle (customer experience & commerce), and Taichung, Taiwan (supply chain & logistics). The work policy is not explicitly stated but likely hybrid or office-first given the hardware focus.
- **Perks**: Not publicly detailed, but as a well-funded unicorn, competitive compensation and equity packages are standard.

## Sources
1. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/company)
2. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/pages/news)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ridealso)
4. [dealroom.co](https://dealroom.co/companies/ridealso-com/)
5. [ridealso.com](https://ridealso.com/)

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