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About the Role

As Deployment Manager, you will own the end-to-end delivery of customer deployments in the UK, from delivery kickoff through commissioning, validation, go-live and operational handover. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role with significant time spent at industrial sites. You will also help define how Hive deploys at scale across the country.

Responsibilities

Own UK customer projects from delivery kickoff through successful operational handover.
Build and maintain the integrated deployment plan across people, machines, hardware, software, logistics, site readiness, safety and customer dependencies.
Establish clear milestones, owners, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
Drive execution and escalate risks before they become delivery problems.
Ensure deployments are delivered safely, on time and to the expected quality.
Work directly with customers to prepare sites for deployment and go-live.
Coordinate infrastructure, connectivity, machines, operating areas, safety requirements and operational procedures.
Lead on-site deployment activities together with Hive Engineering and Operations.
Coordinate installation, commissioning, testing, validation and acceptance activities.
Act as the primary delivery counterpart for the customer.
Maintain clear communication on progress, risks, decisions and dependencies.
Coordinate customer stakeholders across operations, engineering, IT, HSE and management.
Build trust through strong execution, ownership and transparency.
Work closely with Engineering, Product, QA and Operations.
Translate customer and site requirements into clear internal actions.
Coordinate technical resources during deployment and drive issues to resolution.
Balance customer urgency with safety, quality and technical readiness.
Develop repeatable deployment processes, templates and checklists.
Capture lessons learned and continuously improve how Hive deploys.
Help define the local capabilities, suppliers, facilities and resources required as the UK business scales.

Requirements

Strong experience delivering complex projects in industrial, field or customer environments.
Proven end-to-end ownership of deployments, implementations, commissioning or operational projects.
Excellent planning, coordination and execution skills.
Comfortable coordinating technical teams and non-technical customer stakeholders.
Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management.
Hands-on mentality and ability to operate effectively when priorities change quickly.
Strong safety mindset.
Willingness to travel extensively across the UK.
Professional fluency in English and authorization to work in the UK.
Experience from industrial automation, robotics, autonomous systems, heavy equipment, material handling, warehousing, logistics, mining, construction, manufacturing, field engineering or field service.
Experience working directly with industrial equipment or operational technology.

Skills

Planning
Coordination
Execution
Customer-facing communication
Stakeholder management
Safety mindset

Location

Work Type

Onsite
Field

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

Hive is building the defining physical AI platform of the next decade.
Industrial labor is one of the most acute bottlenecks in the global economy.
The company's answer is a machine-agnostic intelligence platform that lets any machine, on any site, perceive, decide, and act autonomously.
Hive's platform is already live across multiple sites and customers in Europe, spanning logistics and warehousing, industrial manufacturing, and large-scale chemical production, with a US expansion underway.
The vision is one operator managing hundreds of machines simultaneously, with productive machine-hour cost dropping by 80x, unlocking the next productivity revolution in physical work.
The mission is to make productivity limitless.
Join Hive at a pivotal stage as we expand into the UK and build a new category in Physical AI.
You’ll work with cutting-edge autonomy technology and a highly experienced team to bring autonomous industrial machines out of development and into real-world commercial operations.
As we establish and scale our UK operations, you’ll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibility from day one, help shape how we operate in the UK, and build the playbooks for deploying and operating autonomous machines at scale.

Equal Opportunity

Hive values diversity and encourages qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or background.