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VP, Deployment

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-01 Sydney Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$15,000–A$21,000/mo

About the Company

Imagine having the power to stress-test an entire power grid against a hurricane or thunderstorm before the clouds even gather. That is the reality we are creating at Neara. We use advanced machine learning to create engineering-grade, physics enabled digital twins of electricity grids across four continents, this helps asset owners understand their biggest challenges and bring the most viable solutions to life across millions of kilometres of infrastructure. By simulating extreme weather and structural stress at a network-wide scale, we empower the world's largest utilities to pinpoint risks, optimise investments and build a more resilient global energy future. Our team is a collection of brilliant minds who are fanatical about making a tangible difference in the real world, utilising AI and machine learning to accelerate everything from data classification to complex scenario analysis. We have built a special culture where innovation thrives because everyone owns the mission and we need smart, creative people to help us scale this impact to every corner of the globe. WHAT IT MEANS TO LEAD DEPLOYMENT AT NEARA At Neara, Deployment is the engine that turns a customer's real-world network into an accurate, trusted digital twin: faster, more predictably, and more automatically every quarter. When we do it well, the signal is unmistakable: - Requesting a model build or standard QA is as simple and reliable as calling an API: scoped and delivered to a known standard, every

Responsibilities

  • ● Own the engine: end-to-end deployment across model build, QA and CS-defined deployment processes, contractor partner management, and deployment operations.
  • ● Standardise and automate: make model build and standard processes efficient, predictable, and increasingly automated - turning delivery into a simple, well-defined interface the business can call, progressively standardising solutions that are bespoke today (such as vegetation and pole loading, and over time auto-design), and using AI to lift throughput, allocation accuracy, and forecasting.
  • ● Own the economics and metrics: the delivery P&L (cost per deployment, contractor spend, utilisation, and margin etc), and the KPIs that run it (cycle time, on-time rate, quality etc), with full visibility across deliverable types.
  • ● Hold quality and the playbook: consistent digital-twin quality and velocity, and a delivery playbook (model build, QA, contractor execution) that standardises what good looks like across regions.
  • ● Build and lead global teams: developing regional leaders and ICs across AU, US, EU, and India, who operate autonomously within a single global framework.
  • ● Run the portfolio: prioritisation, capacity allocation across internal teams and contractors, and delivery risk management.

Requirements

  • ● + years leading delivery or implementation functions, with at least 3 years at VP or equivalent level in a global SaaS business.
  • ● Technically credible in complex delivery - your background is in deep-technology or complex enterprise SaaS (engineering-led, data-heavy, or physically modelled products). You engage directly with model build teams, weigh quality and scope tradeoffs, and hold standards without relying on CS to interpret requirements.
  • ● You build standards from how the work actually gets done - diagnosing what to regionalise versus standardise globally - not from a generic best practice playbook. If you've led mainly through process and frameworks rather than technical depth, this likely isn't the right fit.
  • ● Proven track record leading delivery at scale in enterprise SaaS - ideally having built or substantially rebuilt a delivery model (not just operated within one), and enforced playbooks that standardise what good looks like across distributed teams, not just documented them.
  • ● Deep familiarity with US enterprise customer dynamics - comfortable operating in the timezone and cadence of large, complex US project environments
  • ● Strong delivery economics and operational judgment - utilisation, margin, capacity planning, and contractor cost structures; you've owned third-party/vendor performance, not just tracked it, and you run delivery from data, not instinct.
  • ● Familiarity with utility, energy, or heavy infrastructure customers is an advantage - you understand how compliance, operational risk, and procurement cycles shape delivery timelines and expectations.
  • ● Active user of AI tooling in your own workflow, with demonstrated impact on delivery efficiency or forecasting.
  • ● Based in Sydney, Australia - willing to travel internationally, including regular travel to the US
  • ● WHY WORK HERE
  • ● Competitive salary + ESOP. Significant career development and growth opportunities.
  • ● Fully flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern.
  • ● Regular office events
  • ● Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and no-ego work culture.
  • ● Neara values diversity, belonging, and equal employment opportunities. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.