Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future.
We connect the world’s oceans to provide insights to science, society and industry for a more sustainable planet.
Our network provides unprecedented access to real-time ocean data and makes the Sofar Marine Weather Forecast better than any other. Our data insights contribute to trillions of dollars of economic value generated in and around our planet’s oceans. Our customer segments include: Aquaculture, Coastal Engineering, Environmental Consulting, Governments, Maritime Shipping, Offshore Energy, Ports & Harbors, and Research & Universities.
Sofar is building the first full-stack ocean intelligence platform to help solve some of the world's hardest problems, and contribute to a more sustainable future. From an operational perspective that means that we combine advances in technology with ocean and atmospheric science to create data services and SAAS products for our customers. We are growing rapidly on all fronts, which brings increased operational complexities and challenges. To help accelerate the growth of the company we want to add a Head of Special Operations to our team, to provide operational partnership to the team and collaborate with the CEO to set, align, and execute on the strategic vision for the organization. We are looking for an experienced operations leader who combines a passion for building exceptional companies, with the ability to operate in a fast-moving highly technical environment infused with ocean and atmospheric science. The goal of this role is to take on a broad scope in implementing operational, managerial, and administrative procedures, reporting structures, and operation controls to the company to facilitate efficient growth and contribute to an exceptional workspace for our team.
This is a vital leadership role for the company, and a key partner to the CEO to deliver success. The Head of Special Operations will report directly to the CEO and work onsite from our Pier 28 location in San Francisco.
It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers, and vendors.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.