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title: 'Vice President, Operations at Lumotive'
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# Vice President, Operations at Lumotive

- **Company:** Lumotive
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$235k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/lumotive/930d9ee2-e7b9-4f04-bed3-6029b212f05c

## Job description

Job Description: Lumotive is seeking an experienced, hands-on VP of Operations to lead, optimize, and scale operational functions across semiconductor manufacturing and the supply chain.

This role will serve as a strategic partner to management and oversee fabrication, assembly, test, quality, planning, and logistics, with responsibility for driving operational excellence. The VP of Operations will ensure alignment across manufacturing capabilities, technology roadmaps, customer demand, and corporate strategy, while improving efficiency, yield, and cost performance.

The preferred location for this role is Milpitas, California; candidates based in Redmond, Washington will also be considered. This position reports directly to the CEO.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee daily operations for wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, and packaging.
- Drive continuous improvements in yield, cycle time, equipment utilization, and manufacturing efficiency.
- Lead expansion, capacity planning, and technology transitions (e.g., new nodes, new packaging technologies).
- Manage end-to-end supply chain including procurement, vendor management, inventory, and logistics.
- Build strategic supplier relationships to ensure materials availability and cost-effectiveness.
- Mitigate supply risks and develop dual-sourcing strategies.
- Lead quality systems across manufacturing, supplier management, and customer qualification.
- Ensure compliance with ISO, IATF, and industry-specific standards.
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for yield issues or field failures.
- Partner with R&D, Product Engineering, Sales/Marketing, and Finance to support product launches and customer commitments.
- Translate technology roadmaps into operational requirements within budgetary requirements.
- Support new product introduction (NPI) to high-volume manufacturing (HVM).
- Develop long-term operational strategy aligned with company goals.
- Mentor and develop a high-performing operations team

Qualifications:

- Extensive experience (15+ years) spanning manufacturing, supply chain, and operations leadership at a global scale within the fabless semiconductor industry.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
- Proven record of operational transformation improving cost, quality, and delivery simultaneously.
- Proven experience managing high-volume manufacturing environments.
- Operational economics, supplier readiness, and data-driven manufacturing systems expertise, senior executive level communications.
- Executive presence, clarity in communication, and comfort operating at both strategy and execution levels.
- Experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional initiatives that align multiple organizations to deliver coordinated operational results.
- Experience scaling manufacturing networks or managing large-site transformations.
- Proven collaboration to enable aligned execution.

## About Lumotive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lumotive develops programmable optical semiconductors using its patented Light Control Metasurface (LCM) technology to enable solid-state beam steering for lidar, optical switching, and communications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held; $131M total funding, most recent Series B in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Redmond, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Gleb Akselrod (CTO and Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Semiconductor Manufacturing / Programmable Optics
- **Target customers**: B2B – lidar module makers, robotics integrators, automotive ADAS suppliers, defense contractors, AI hyperscaler data centers, and optical network operators.
- **Mission or purpose**: “Delivering the world’s first digital platform for light — and redefining what’s possible in the optical age.”

## Products & Services
- **Light Control Metasurface (LCM) Beamforming Chip**: A software‑defined, flat CMOS‑based “general purpose optic” that can be programmed to steer, split, or focus light without moving parts. Used in solid‑state lidar for 3D sensing, optical circuit switching for AI data centers, and free‑space optical communications.
- **LCM‑Enabled 3D Sensing Solutions**: High‑performance, compact solid‑state lidar sensors deployed in smart infrastructure, robotics, and mobility systems through module makers and integrators.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $131M; annual revenue estimated at $2.5M (based on headcount‑to‑revenue proxy)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series B (Feb 2025) included 11 investors; earlier rounds involved corporate and venture investors (names not publicly listed). Partners include leading module makers and solution integrators in lidar and optical networking.
- **Growth Signals**: 66 employees (+28.6% YoY); 12 active job postings (+20% monthly, +300% quarterly); recent $45M Series B (Feb 2025) and $14M follow‑on (July 2025); expanding into AI data center optical switching; offices in Redmond (HQ), Vancouver, Palo Alto, Bellevue, and employees across 5 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary LCM technology** with 160+ patents, enabling digital, reconfigurable optics without mechanical parts.
- **Once‑in‑a‑generation innovation**: a flat CMOS‑based “general purpose optic” that replaces bulky mechanical optical components, analogous to the shift from analog to digital in electronics.
- **Broad application range** (lidar, optical switching, communications) reduces single‑market risk and opens multiple high‑growth verticals.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling production and operations to meet demand from AI data centers (optical circuit switching), autonomous robotics, and automotive ADAS.
- Hiring a Vice President of Operations to drive excellence across fabrication, assembly, test, quality, supply chain, and logistics.
- Continuing to advance LCM chip performance and integration for next‑gen 3D sensing and high‑speed communications.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Intense intellectual environment” with high ownership, visibility, and responsibility; described as “no place to hide” but rewarding for top performers. Values: Always Innovate, Seek Excellence, Focus on Customers.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office presence expected (offices in Redmond, Vancouver, Palo Alto, Bellevue); remote flexibility not explicitly stated.
- **Team**: 57% technical staff; collaboration with “ridiculously smart people” from Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, and other top tech firms.
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling company with recent funding and expanding headcount; opportunity to shape a breakthrough technology category.

## Sources
1. [lumotive.com](https://lumotive.com/)
2. [lumotive.com/about](https://lumotive.com/about/)
3. [lumotive.com/culture](https://lumotive.com/culture/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/lumotive](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lumotive)
5. [jobs.lever.co/lumotive](https://jobs.lever.co/lumotive)

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