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# Workplace Manager at Skild AI

- **Company:** Skild AI
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/skildai-careers/jobs/5345700008

## Job description

Company Overview

At Skild AI, we are building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. We believe massive scale through data-driven machine learning is the key to unlocking these capabilities for the widespread deployment of robots within society. Our team consists of individuals with varying levels of experience and backgrounds, from new graduates to domain experts. Relevant industry experience is important, but ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude. We are looking for passionate individuals who are eager to explore uncharted waters and contribute to our innovative projects.

Position Overview

Skild AI is looking for a proactive, people-oriented, and highly organized Workplace Experience Manager to own the day-to-day experience of our San Mateo office. This role sits at the intersection of workplace, people operations, employee experience, and office operations.

The Workplace Experience Manager will be a front of house role and serve as the first point of contact for employees, candidates, guests, and vendors. This is not a receptionist role. This is a strategic workplace role. We are looking for someone who can independently run the office day to day, anticipate needs, manage vendors, coordinate across Operations, People, Recruiting, IT, Security, and Facilities and help create a workplace where employees can do their best work.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys being close to the center of office activity, takes pride in creating a high-quality employee and guest experience, and wants to grow into broader workplace ownership as the company scales.

## Responsibilities

- Own daily workplace operations for the San Mateo office, ensuring the office is clean, organized, stocked, functional, welcoming, and guest-ready.
- Serve as the front-of-house owner for employees, candidates, guests, vendors, and partners.
- Manage reception, visitor experience, mail, packages, guest coordination, front desk presentation, and office communications.
- Maintain high standards for conference rooms, shared spaces, cafeterias, kitchens, printer areas, supplies, and employee amenities.
- Own food, beverage, snacks, office supplies, printer supplies, and recurring workplace inventory.
- Manage workplace vendors, including janitorial, catering, snacks and beverages, building management, office supplies, maintenance, and repair vendors.
- Partner with People Operations and Recruiting on onboarding, employee experience, office rituals, celebrations, and moments that matter.
- Coordinate new hire workplace logistics, including desk assignment, office access, welcome materials, first-day readiness, and coordination with IT, Security, and Facilities.
- Partner with Facilities on physical workplace needs, including desk setups, furniture moves, repairs, storage, shipments, and space resets.
- Support seating, desk changes, team moves, space planning, and office organization as the company grows.
- Plan and support onsite events, team lunches, happy hours, all-hands logistics, candidate visits, and internal gatherings.
- Build lightweight workplace processes, checklists, vendor documentation, office standards, and recurring routines.
- Proactively identify and resolve office issues before they impact employees or visitors.
- Support site safety, emergency readiness, and building-related escalations during business hours.

## Preferred Qualifications

- 4+ years of experience in workplace experience, office management, people operations, hospitality, facilities coordination, or a similarly hands-on, people-facing role.
- Proven ability to independently run day-to-day office operations with strong ownership and minimal direction.
- Comfort being front-desk based, highly visible, and close to the center of office activity.
- Strong service orientation and genuine care for creating an excellent employee, candidate, and guest experience.
- Experience managing vendors, office supplies, food and beverage programs, onboarding logistics, events, seating, mail/packages, and workplace requests.
- Excellent judgment, organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- Clear, warm, and professional communication with employees, candidates, vendors, and leadership.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, ambiguity, and last-minute changes in a fast-moving environment.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, and workplace request or ticketing systems such as Jira, Freshservice, ServiceNow, or similar.
- Ability to work onsite five days per week in San Mateo.

## About Skild AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Skild AI builds a general-purpose robotic intelligence (the "Skild Brain") that enables any robot to autonomously perceive, act, and interact across diverse physical environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; latest round Series C closed January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (also offices in San Mateo, San Francisco, and Bengaluru)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in the reviewed sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Physical Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – manufacturing, construction, security/inspection, logistics, and other sectors requiring physical task automation
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Bringing AI into the physical world" by building an omni-bodied brain that can control any robot for any task, learned from scalable, data-driven machine learning

## Products & Services
- **Skild Brain**: The core AI foundation model that works across different robot types and tasks, enabling low‑level skills (grasping, handover, navigation) abstracted via API calls.
- **Mobile Manipulation Platform**: Robots powered by Skild Brain that can navigate, grasp, and manipulate objects in unstructured environments.
- **Security/Inspection Robot Platform**: Robots equipped with Skild Brain for autonomous inspection in hazardous areas, reducing the need for human manual patrols.
- **Autonomous Packing System**: High‑precision dexterous manipulation for repetitive packing tasks.
- **Simulation & Data Tools**: Physics simulation environments and annotation pipelines used to train and validate the model.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$2.215B** (CB Insights) / **$2.21B** (PitchBook), including a **$1.4B Series C** in January 2026
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue, Bezos Expeditions, Sequoia Capital, and 39+ others (per CB Insights)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business (April 2026)
  - Rapid headcount growth: ~50 employees (PitchBook) with **51 open roles** listed on Greenhouse as of mid‑2026
  - Expanded footprint to multiple US cities and Bengaluru, India

## Competitive Advantages
- **Omni‑bodied AI**: A single foundation model works across diverse robot hardware and tasks, avoiding the need for task‑specific training.
- **Scalable data pipeline**: Learns from human videos and real‑world interactions, creating a long‑term data advantage.
- **End‑to‑end integration**: From simulation and data annotation to real‑world deployment, the company controls the full stack.
- **Backing by top‑tier VCs and Bezos Expeditions**, providing capital and strategic access for rapid scaling.

## Strategic Focus
- **Real‑world deployment**: Prioritizing tangible robot applications (packing, inspection, manipulation) to deliver immediate customer value.
- **Data moat**: Continuing to scale data acquisition through human‑video learning and proprietary simulation.
- **Cross‑industry expansion**: Moving from early‑stage deployments into construction, manufacturing, logistics, and security verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Innovation‑driven culture**: Described as a team where “curiosity meets impact,” tackling the frontier of physical AI.
- **Diverse openings**: 50+ roles across engineering (CV/ML, manipulation, embedded, simulation, infrastructure), research, product, operations, and marketing.
- **Global presence**: Offices in Pittsburgh, San Mateo, San Francisco (US) and Bengaluru (India); some roles allow remote work, though many are location‑specific.
- **Engineering‑forward**: Emphasis on data‑driven machine learning, robotics, and large‑scale systems, with opportunities to work on the core AI model and deployment.
- **Perks**: Not detailed, but typical for venture‑backed robotics startups include competitive equity, modern hardware, and a mission‑oriented environment.

## Sources
1. [skild.ai](https://www.skild.ai/)
2. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/skildai-careers)
3. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/skild-ai)
4. [PitchBook](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/608340-52)

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