Career Opportunities
Imagine the moment before the hatch opens — the quiet, the hum of systems, the whole world watching as you step out and become the first human to set foot on a new planet. That’s the thrill we’re offering at HingeCraft Global, only our planet is the future: a world moving from scarcity to abundance. We are assembling the crew to build technology, culture, and systems that will make abundance real — and we want you on that first mission.
This is not a job. It’s a launch. You will join a founding team of designers, builders, scientists, storytellers, and operators charged with rewriting how things are made, moved, and loved — locally, circularly, and at planetary scale. You will help build a civilization-scale operating system that turns neighborhoods into micro-factories, malls into living labs, and logistics into a two-way artery for materials and imagination. You will design products that last, materials that heal the planet, and digital systems that turn everyday users into creators.
We’re looking for people who get light-speed excited about hard problems: the engineers who dream in extrusion and printed joints, the product leaders who see subscriptions as a public service, the materials scientists who can make waste into wonder, the logisticians who map tomorrow’s circular arteries, and the storytellers who make the future irresistible. Bring curiosity, craft, and courage. Bring a relentless focus on outcomes and a tenderness for people and place.
You will have the autonomy of an astronaut, the responsibility of a steward, and the upside of an early pioneer — meaningful equity, a seat at the table, and the chance to shape governance, standards, and the ethics of a new economy. You will fail forward, iterate fast, and celebrate every small victory on the way to civilization-scale proof.
If you’ve ever wanted to be at the intersection of moonshot ambition and practical, beautiful engineering — if you want to help land humanity on Mars-style horizons, but for real-world abundance — we’re saving you a spot on the crew. Board the rocket. Apply to HingeCraft Global. Let’s make history together.
1) Head of Platform — VP / Head of Product & Engineering
Purpose: Build and operate the subscription-driven digital backbone (AI personalization, design library, configuration manufacture flow).
Responsibilities: define product/tech roadmap; lead SaaS/ML engineering teams; integrate platform with micro-factories & partners; own subscription monetization and APIs.
Qualifications: 8+ years SaaS product + engineering leadership, proven experience with ML/AI productization, subscription business models, and platform API strategies; history scaling teams to +50 engineers; hands-on product/UX sensibility.
2) Head of Furnishings / GM — Product, Design & Manufacturing
Purpose: Lead the consumer product arm that defines modular hinge-based products, quality, and go-to-market for furnishings.
Responsibilities: own product roadmap & PLM, certify manufacturability for local nodes, partner with materials & print teams for durability & circularity, lead brand/product launch.
Qualifications: senior leader from consumer hardware/furniture with deep product design/supply chain experience, track record shipping durable products at scale, strong sustainability cred.
3) Director of Materials & Sustainability
Purpose: Architect and scale the materials pipeline (rPET, composites, circular inputs) that feeds manufacturing and print alliances.
Responsibilities: lead materials R&D and vendor certification, develop pharma-style materials pipeline, define recycling/re-feed standards and reporting, optimize for cost/CO₂/per-SKU impacts.
Qualifications: polymer/composites or materials science leader, experience with industrial scale of recycled plastics/composites, strong vendor & quality systems experience, ESG reporting familiarity.
4) Head of Print Alliance / Director of Additive Manufacturing
Purpose: Stand up and certify the distributed 3D-printing network and supplier alliance that supplies printed mechanisms and assemblies.
Responsibilities: set certification & QA for printers/nodes, manage OEM partnerships, drive printer/agent standards, operationalize scale & throughput across certified local nodes.
Qualifications: leader from industrial 3D printing or additive manufacturing with supply-chain partnerships, proven ability to run vendor certification programs and scale printing operations. (See internal Print Alliance strategy & CEO shortlists.)
5) Head of Logistics & Circular Distribution
Purpose: Design & operate the reciprocal, closed-loop logistics model that turns delivery into two-way material flows.
Responsibilities: design mall/flagship logistics hubs, integrate autonomous & conventional fleets, optimize routing for simultaneous delivery & returns, measure circularity KPIs.
Qualifications: senior logistics operator with experience in last-mile, reverse logistics/circularity, logistics tech integration, partnership experience with large-scale fulfillment/robotics firms.
6) Flagship Hub Director — Retail + Living Lab Operations
Purpose: Launch and operate the first Flagship Hub: a retail/experience/living-lab integrating manufacturing, community, materials and services.
Responsibilities: manage site operations, curate partner experiences, drive community/education programming, prove seven-pillar integration for demo.
Qualifications: head of flagship/retail or large experiential site with real-estate + operations experience, strong program/partnership skills, track record launching proof-of-concept living labs.
7) Head of Analytics & AI — VP Data Science / ML Engineering
Purpose: Convert live telemetry and platform data into predictive models, adaptive analytics, and decisioning for manufacturing/ops.
Responsibilities: build telemetry stack, forecasting and scenario models, real-time optimization agents for production/logistics, data governance & privacy.
Qualifications: senior data science leader with production ML at scale, experience with IoT/telemetry, strong product orientation and analytics → operations delivery.
8) Chief of Governance & Public Benefit — Head of Immunity / Legal & Policy
Purpose: Own PBC governance, regulatory strategy, ESG reporting and the “immune system” that enables safe network scale.
Responsibilities: design governance guardrails, lead legal/compliance, define ESG/impact KPIs (emissions per SKU, recycling rates, creator royalties), manage public-benefit reporting.
Qualifications: senior counsel with policy & corporate governance experience, background with PBC/nonprofit/public policy, deep experience with ESG frameworks and multi-jurisdictional compliance.
9) VP Community & Creator Partnerships
Purpose: Seed and grow the creator/producer community that supplies designs, local makers, and advisor networks.
Responsibilities: recruit creators & local makers, build creator marketplace incentives & royalties, run advisor outreach and campus partnering (MIT/Harvard etc.), curate community programs.
Qualifications: community builder with marketplace/operator experience, strong network in design/education/creator ecosystems, experience with creator royalties and community monetization.
10) Head of Narrative & Global Communications — Chief Storyteller
Purpose: Translate complex systems thinking into investor decks, global briefs, and public narratives that accelerate adoption and partner alignment.
Responsibilities: craft narratives for investors/partners, lead PR/media strategy, create investor decks and policy briefs, amplify flagship demos and launch.
Qualifications: senior comms/strategy leader with startup / platform experience, excellent investor & media relations, strong storytelling skills around technology and social impact.
11) Head of People & Talent Acquisition
Purpose: Build the founding team rapidly and sustainably — recruiting across AI, hardware, materials, operations, and community.
Responsibilities: run campus & specialist sourcing strategy, design compensation/equity packages for early hires, build onboarding and culture programs, scale HR ops.
Qualifications: TA leader with deep campus + tech recruiting experience, experience scaling hiring from 0→100, strong employer-branding skills and networks (VC/YC/MIT/Harvard channels).
12) Executive Assistant to Founder / Head-of-Ops Support
Purpose: Be the founder’s operational proxy: filter opportunities, manage global calendars, and drive execution across launches.
Responsibilities: manage founder logistics and stakeholder triage, coordinate cross-functional sprints (ExO sprints), support investor/advisor operations.
Qualifications: EA or chief-of-staff with startup experience, high autonomy, AI-fluency for automation, excellent international scheduling & triage skills. (Typical comp: ~$95–115k + early equity for top markets.)
