Mecka AI
Country Launch Lead
$140K–$180K
New York · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 5 to 8+ years; demonstrated success launching at least one international country end-to-end.
About the job
Leads end-to-end launches of new country operations, from market assessment and legal setup through initial commercial and team deployment and handoff to permanent local leadership.
What you'll do
- Coordinate legal, operational, financial, and commercial launch workstreams and transfer stabilized operations to local managers.
- Assess market feasibility and compliance needs, and establish local entities, banking, logistics, facilities, vendors, and workflows.
- Recruit and train founding teams, establish operating cadences and KPIs, and improve the global expansion playbook.
What they ask for
- 5 to 8+ years in operational leadership, expansion operations, corporate strategy, or general management.
- Demonstrated success launching at least one international country end-to-end for a high-growth, operations-intensive company.
- Hands-on experience building local operations from concept to stabilization, including legal setup, financial rails, commercial partners, vendors, and hiring.
- Autonomy, resilience, and willingness to travel to target expansion regions.
Nice to have
- Experience working with external legal firms and government authorities on regulatory hurdles, cross-border data transfer policies, and local labor laws.
Pay
$140K – $180K (base salary)
AI focus
The company builds data infrastructure for robotics and embodied AI, including data capture, labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used to train and validate systems. This role launches country operations supporting that work.
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