Shop Manager

Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 4,000 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.

Job Description

Y Combinator is seeking a Shop Manager who will help manage our YC Hardware Lab. Over 20% of YC startups are now hardware startups, and you’ll help support these founders. The shop lead will support founders by managing a space, purchasing and maintaining equipment, reviewing prototypes, and providing founder feedback.

The ideal candidate will have built products from prototype to scale. They will have worked with key prototyping machines like CNCs, 3D printers, PCBs and more. They will have extensive experience maintaining equipment.

Enjoy the many perks of working for a successful company – competitive salary and excellent benefits including fully-paid health care benefits and unlimited vacation – while working on a small, fast-moving and high-impact team.

In your first month, you might:

• Provide input, purchase, and setup equipment
• Provide tutorials on how to use equipment
• Create the lab’s safety policy
• Support founders in using the equipment

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and run operations of the hardware lab from purchase to maintenance
• Manage all lab policies
• Schedule lab equipment
• Advise hardware startups
• Connect founders with vendors

Skills

• You have built hardware products before
• You have worked in a lab where hardware products have been built
• You know how to run and maintain hardware prototyping equipment like CNCs, 3D printers

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience building hardware
• Have built hardware from prototype to manufacturing
• Have mentored or managed other builders
• You have managed a hardware space before

Location: YC is headquartered in the SF Bay Area with employees working from home or from our offices in San Francisco and Mountain View, CA. Candidates must live in the SF Bay Area or be willing to relocate.