
RIVR · Zürich
RIVR, part of Amazon is a robotics company pioneering Physical AI through real-world doorstep delivery. Founded in 2024 as an ETH Zurich spin-off, RIVR develope...
RIVR, part of Amazon is a robotics company pioneering Physical AI through real-world doorstep delivery. Founded in 2024 as an ETH Zurich spin-off, RIVR developed wheeled-legged robots designed to operate in complex, unstructured environments such as stairs, gates, doors, and uneven urban terrain. We believe that achieving general physical intelligence requires solving real customer problems in the real world, where robots can learn from rich operational data at scale.
Following our acquisition by Amazon in March 2026, we are continuing this mission with greater reach and speed. By combining custom robot hardware, onboard autonomy, and cloud-based coordination, RIVR, part of Amazon is building the next generation of safe, reliable autonomous robots for last-mile delivery
Job Description
Robotics Trade & Supply Chain Compliance (RTSCC) is looking for a trade compliance professional with strong operational leadership capabilities to take full ownership of import/export compliance for RIVR. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on execution-focused Robotics Trade Manager, RIVR to design, implement and monitor trade compliance processes- balancing regulatory rigor with the speed and scale our business demands.
You will be responsible for developing and executing cross-border compliance strategies to meet evolving regulatory requirements. This includes leading the design and implementation of scalable compliance controls, identifying and acting on opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce risk, and driving both tactical and strategic initiatives. As a single-threaded leader, you'll coordinate efforts across teams, balancing the intricacies of global trade regulations with practical, innovative solutions.
Your work will involve regular collaboration with a broad network of partners, including Technology, Procurement, Compliance Operations, Legal, Tax, and Public Policy teams.
The ideal candidate possesses deep functional knowledge of international customs regulations, tariff classifications, and export controls, combined with the project management skills needed to turn complex regulations into frictionless trade workflows.
LOCATION North America EMPLOYMENT TYPE Full time LOCATION TYPE Hybrid/Remote DEPARTMENT Sales WHO WE ARE: We build the intelligence that lets robots sense, reason, and act in the real world—moving beyond the lab and into everyday industrial settings like warehouses and factories. Our technology closes the automation gaps that traditional systems can’t solve. We are on a mission to redefine how physical work gets done, and we’re looking for curious, bold thinkers to help shape the future of robotics with us. OVERVIEW: We are looking for a dynamic Business Development Manager to build and scale our top-of-funnel go-to-market engine across North America. This is not a traditional SDR role. You will be responsible for developing outbound strategy, building repeatable lead generation systems, and creating strong alignment between Marketing and Sales to generate qualified pipeline. In this role, you will identify and engage high-value target accounts, execute account-based marketing strategies, and establish the internal workflows, reporting structures, and qualification standards that make pipeline generation scalable and predictable. Your focus will be generating and qualifying opportunities that transition seamlessly to the Sales team for mid- and bottom-funnel execution. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys building from zero, and wants to shape the foundation of Sereact’s North American growth engine. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: * Top-of-funnel pipeline generation: Build and execute scalable outbound strategies across target verticals including retail, eCommerce, 3PL, distribution, manufacturing, and fulfillment. * Account-based market development: Identify, map, and prioritize strategic enterprise accounts using an ABM-driven approach in close collaboration with Marketing and Sales. * Multi-channel prospecting: Generate qualified opportunities through email, LinkedIn, phone, video, partner ecosystems, referrals, field events, and trade shows. * GTM process design: Build and optimize repeatable workflows for prospecting, qualification, lead routing, CRM discipline, and MQL → SQL → Opportunity handoff. * Marketing alignment: Partner closely with Marketing to improve lead scoring, campaign effectiveness, trade show follow-up, event-driven pipeline generation, and strategic account engagement. * Qualification ownership: Conduct early-stage discovery to qualify inbound and outbound leads based on ICP fit, urgency, business pain, and technical alignment before handing off to the Sales team. * Performance optimization: Track KPIs across sourced pipeline, conversion rates, meeting quality, and revenue influence while continuously improving messaging, targeting, and process efficiency. * Promote collaboration: Work closely with Sales, Solutions Design, Partnerships, and Leadership to ensure seamless customer transitions and consistent pipeline growth. QUALIFICATIONS: Education and Experience * Experience in business development: 5+ years of experience in business development, strategic outbound sales, pipeline generation, or GTM operations within B2B technology, robotics, automation, logistics, or industrial solutions. * Experience in growing companies: You understand the pace, ownership, and structure required in a fast-growing scale-up environment and have helped build processes, not just operate inside them. * Go-to-market expertise: Proven success developing outbound systems, qualification frameworks, and account-based market strategies that generate qualified enterprise pipeline. * Technical understanding: Experience selling or supporting technical products, automation systems, or operational technology is a strong plus and helps drive alignment with internal teams. Skills * Customer focus: Strong communication skills with the ability to create highly effective outreach, engage senior decision-makers, and uncover real customer pain points. * Systems thinking: Highly organized with strong CRM discipline and the ability to build scalable workflows, reporting structures, and operational processes. * Structure and initiative: Comfortable creating clarity from ambiguity, taking ownership, and driving execution independently. * Tool proficiency: Strong experience with CRM and outbound tools such as HubSpot, Clay, Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, Apollo, or similar platforms. * Willingness to travel: Flexibility for customer visits, strategic events, trade shows, and executive meetings across North America as needed. WHAT WE OFFER: * Wellness or gym stipend * A motivated team and an open corporate culture * Flexible work schedule: Remote or hybrid working model designed around high performance and collaboration. * Shape the future: Work for a market leader in AI-powered robotics and help define how North America scales. * Attractive remuneration: Competitive salary plus attractive bonus options tied to pipeline generation and business impact. * Career opportunities: Be part of a dynamic scale-up with clear development prospects in a rapidly growing market. * Direct impact: Build the systems and strategy that define how Sereact grows its commercial engine in North America. Compensation & Benefits: Base salary range: USD $105,000 – $140,000 (actual pay based on skills, experience, and location). Bonus structure in addition for agreed upon KPI attainment. Benefits: * Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents * 401(k) with 100% company match * 20 days paid time off * Parental leave * Paid sick leave * Wellness or gym stipend * Learning and development support * Equity/Bonus Additional Information: * Employment may be contingent upon a background check consistent with applicable law. * We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by law.
ABOUT US STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments. We’re focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems - not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe - today. YOUR MISSION You will own the product roadmap for a set of capability teams working at the heart of STARK's autonomous systems programme, translating complex engineering realities into a coherent, prioritised path to operational impact. Sitting within the UxV Control organisation and reporting to the Head of Product Management, you will be the connective tissue between technical delivery teams and the wider programme, ensuring that what gets built, gets built in the right order, to the right standard, and for the right reasons. This is a role for someone who understands the physics and engineering behind what they're shaping, not just the process around it. RESPONSIBILITIES * Own and maintain the product roadmap across your capability teams, balancing technical dependencies, programme milestones, and stakeholder priorities * Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and PI planning cycles in close partnership with engineering leads * Translate operational requirements and customer inputs into well-defined epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria * Act as the primary interface between your capability teams and cross-functional stakeholders, including systems engineering, integration, and programme management * Drive trade-off decisions across scope, schedule, and technical risk, escalating clearly when alignment is needed above team level * Monitor and communicate team delivery health, surfacing blockers early and working with engineering leads to resolve them * Represent your capability domain in programme-level reviews, contributing to integrated roadmap planning across UxV Control * Contribute to definition of done and quality standards for software and firmware deliverables in a safety- and mission-critical context QUALIFICATIONS * 6+ years of experience in a technical product, systems, or engineering role, with a minimum of 3 years in a Product Manager or Product Owner capacity * Strong working knowledge of autonomous systems, flight dynamics, or guidance and control, sufficient to interrogate technical decisions and earn credibility with engineering teams * Proven experience managing product backlogs and roadmaps in an agile or scaled-agile environment (SAFe, LeSS, or equivalent) * Demonstrated ability to work across hardware and software delivery teams, ideally in a deeply interdependent systems context following the V-model * Comfortable operating in an environment where requirements evolve, ambiguity is normal, and pace is high * Fluent in English; German is a plus but not required NICE TO HAVE * Background in aerospace, defence, or robotics — either industry or academic * Familiarity with certification or verification frameworks relevant to autonomous or safety-critical systems (e.g. DO-178C, ARP4754) * Experience working in a dual-use or export-controlled technology environment * Exposure to model-based systems engineering (MBSE) or SysML at the requirements level If you're interested in building the future of European defence with us and you see yourself reflected in the description above, please send us your CV in English. We’re looking forward to meeting you.
ABOUT US STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionising the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop, and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective — providing operators with a decisive edge in contested environments. We are focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems — not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe, today YOUR MISSION You will own the product roadmap for one of the hardest and most consequential capabilities in our autonomy stack: how our platforms know where they are when GPS isn't available or can't be trusted. You won't be writing the estimation filters yourself, but you'll be translating deep technical complexity into a roadmap that ships, and making sure engineering effort lands on the problems that matter most. Success looks like a localization capability that improves predictably, release over release, with clear priorities that the technical team trusts. RESPONSIBILITIES * Own and drive the product roadmap for localization and navigation * Translate platform-level requirements and operational needs into clear, prioritized technical requirements for engineering * Partner closely with engineering leadership to balance roadmap ambition against technical feasibility, risk, and timeline * Define and track success metrics for localization performance (accuracy, robustness, drift, time-to-reacquisition) in product terms * Run the prioritization process: gather input from engineering, systems, and field/operations stakeholders, then make the call * Represent the localization roadmap to the Head of Product and cross-functional leadership, including trade-off decisions and risk * Maintain close visibility into technical constraints and emerging approaches without owning the technical architecture directly * Write clear product requirement docs, acceptance criteria, and release narratives that engineering can build against * Track competitive and technological landscape developments relevant to GNSS-independent navigation QUALIFICATIONS * 5+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated ownership of a technically complex roadmap * Strong technical fluency in localization, state estimation, or autonomy software — gained through close partnership with engineering (not necessarily as a hands-on engineer) * Proven ability to translate ambiguous, technically dense problems into clear product requirements and prioritized roadmaps * Track record of working directly with GNC, perception, or autonomy engineering teams to ship complex technical capability * Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting roadmap and trade-off decisions to senior leadership * Excellent written communication: PRDs, requirements docs, and roadmap narratives that engineers can act on without a follow-up meeting * Fluent English; German is a plus NICE TO HAVE * Background in robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or defence-adjacent product management * Familiarity with SLAM, or sensor fusion concepts at a working (non-implementation) level * Experience working on products where performance must hold under adversarial or degraded operating conditions * Prior experience in a startup or fast-scaling engineering organization * Technical degree (engineering, robotics, physics, or similar) even without a hands-on engineering career If you're interested in building the future of European Defence with us, and you see yourself reflected on the description above, please send us your CV in English. We´re looking forward to meeting you!