Providing the Essential Building Blocks for Robotics: Our Portfolio Company Freedom Robotics Is Hiring
In 2021, North America ordered a record 29,000 robots during the first nine months of the year alone. This boom in the robotics industry highlights a monumental shift in how companies are approaching automation in complex environments such as manufacturing, warehouses, construction, and others especially in light of the pandemic. However, in order to reach the full potential of a digital workforce, various players in the industry are seeking ways to develop software management tools that enable the wider adoption and utilization of robotic fleets. That’s where our portfolio company, Freedom Robotics, comes in.
Based in San Francisco, Freedom Robotics offers a powerful, easy-to-use robotics platform for managing, monitoring, and controlling fleets of robots. Freedom’s platform provides a host of integrations with other developer tools, platforms, and services that teams already use — eliminating the need to develop layers of the stack from scratch.
If Freedom Robotics’ mission to enable companies to build, operate, support, and scale robotic fleets resonates with you, check out these exciting opportunities available on the Toyota Ventures jobs board: Backend Platform Lead and Enterprise Account Executive.
Backend Platform Lead (San Francisco, CA)
Freedom Robotics is seeking hands-on cloud developers to lead in designing and scaling Freedom’s functionality. In this role, you would be responsible for designing, planning, developing, maintaining, and scaling Freedom Robotics’ platform systems and services. You will lead the technical design process and participate in operational design/code review, as well as actively monitor and improve telemetry across the company’s deployments and cloud infrastructure. Other responsibilities include contributing to the development and enhancements of Freedom Robotics’ CI/CD pipeline infrastructure/tools; driving incidents to resolution by coordinating with tech, product, and robotics teams; as well as ensuring platform compliance with best practices on security and data privacy.
Strong candidates will possess skill sets in software engineering and an understanding of key software architecture principles as well as cloud deployment and development for AWS (Multi-cloud experience is a strong plus). You should also understand how to work with on-premise deployments including UNIX systems, bash scripting, and containers such as Docker. Familiarity with monitoring tools for mission-critical applications both cloud and on-premise is a must as well as extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments such as AWS and its native services, e.g. RDS, EMR, Redshift, MSK, SNS, SQS. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject is a plus but not required.
Enterprise Account Executive (San Francisco, CA)
In this role, you will be responsible for spearheading Freedom’s go-to-market strategy, growth, and adoption.You will also lead the company’s customer acquisition and revenue generation focused on large enterprise customers. As an enterprise account executive, you will manage full sales cycles from lead to final conversations, and support customers as a trusted advisor on customer-centric solutions. Other responsibilities will include managing accurate sales forecasting, planning, and budgeting processes; working cross functionally with other teams to navigate sales cycles; and building a top-performing team.
In order to be considered for this role, candidates must have over three years of experience in a similar role at a SaaS provider, with a stellar performance record to match. Candidates that come to this role with an entrepreneurial mindset and are capable and excited about generating their own pipeline are preferred. In addition, those that have strong written and verbal communications skills, as well as a deep understanding of sales cycles, metrics, and experience closing complex enterprise accounts, will set themselves apart. Other requirements include knowledge and experience in engaging both C-level executives and on-the-ground engineers, and a solid understanding how to work with both.
Learn more about a career at Freedom Robotics and explore other job opportunities on the Toyota Ventures jobs board. A number of our portfolio companies are also recruiting right now, so be sure to sign up for the Toyota Ventures Talent Network.
