Co-Founder — PowerOpsHQ
Every alarm investigated. Every action validated. Every megawatt protected.
Company: PowerOpsHQ (an A Foundery venture)
Product PowerOps IQ
Location : NY/NJ United States
Type Founder / Co-Founder — full-time
Start date ASAP
Compensation
Salary of $80,000 to $120,000 per year and a defined path to significant ownership. Vesting and related terms are agreed in the Co-Founder agreement.
This position is independent of A Foundery's Founder-in-Residence program.
The Opportunity in One Line
We are looking for a commercial founder to build the customer and revenue engine around a deployment-ready AI-agentic monitoring product that is already monitoring 8 GW of renewable assets across the globe. The technology is built. The remote operations team is in place. Your job is to win customers and grow the business.
About A Foundery
A Foundery is a profit-led venture studio that partners with operators to build cash-positive companies through focused execution. We don't chase valuation — we build businesses that fund themselves.
We provide the backbone so you can concentrate on customers, revenue and growth:
You run the Commercial Company — customers, sales, revenue.
A Foundery runs the Delivery engine — technology, remote operations, finance, legal and HR. Together we build one company.
The Market Problem
Solar and wind asset owners have invested heavily in SCADA, DAS and monitoring platforms. These systems generate thousands of alarms and operating signals — but they do not complete the operational work.
Asset-management teams must still determine:
As renewable portfolios grow, owners typically respond by adding more monitoring personnel. Costs rise with every site while engineers spend valuable time reviewing repetitive alarms, moving between disconnected systems and preparing manual escalation reports.
Existing software provides more screens and notifications. It rarely takes accountability for investigating an event, validating the response and following it through to resolution.
What We Are Building
PowerOpsHQ is an AI-enabled, human-validated remote operations center for solar and wind assets.
Our product, PowerOps IQ, is a fully developed, deployment-ready AI-agentic monitoring system already monitoring 8 GW of power assets worldwide. It connects to the asset owner's existing monitoring environment — no expensive SCADA replacement required.
Specialized AI agents work every event, continuously:
Sentinel Monitors equipment and production signals around the clock
Investigator Correlates related alarms, removes duplicate noise, assembles probable root cause
Impact Estimates production and revenue exposure to prioritize what matters
Dispatch Prepares a field-ready action with affected asset, evidence and next step
Recovery Tracks the event through restoration and updates the operating playbook
A PowerOpsHQ operations engineer validates consequential findings before escalation. The customer's field team receives a prioritized action with the affected asset, supporting evidence and a recommended next step — not another raw alarm.
Technology development and remote monitoring operations are handled by the PowerOpsHQ supporting team. The Co-Founder's responsibility is to win customers and grow the business.
The Value We Sell
PowerOpsHQ is not selling another monitoring platform. We sell a managed operating outcome: fewer unresolved events, faster response and better-performing assets.
For renewable asset owners, that means:
Commercial model: a low fixed monitoring fee plus an agreed variable component tied to measurable service outcomes and production protection. We win when your assets win.
The Unfair Advantage
You don't start from zero. You start with:
The immediate challenge is commercial execution — not developing the technology.
Jobs to Be Done
As Co-Founder, you own the complete customer and revenue function.
✅ Define the wedge — Select the solar or wind asset-owner segment most likely to
adopt PowerOpsHQ first.
✅ Build the pipeline — Create relationships with IPPs, infrastructure funds,
asset managers and O&M providers.
✅ Win the first customers — Lead discovery, demonstrations, proposals,
negotiations and paid pilots.
✅ Own onboarding — Coordinate customer, technology and operations
teams from contract signing through service activation.
✅ Prove the value — Ensure every pilot demonstrates clear operating and
commercial outcomes.
✅ Convert and expand — Turn pilots into recurring contracts and grow across
additional sites and portfolios.
✅ Own customer success — Maintain executive relationships, resolve concerns
and protect retention.
✅ Build the commercial engine — Establish repeatable prospecting, sales,
onboarding, account-management and revenue-reporting processes.
First 90 Days
Month 1 — Focus: Select the segment and primary buyer, define the entry-point workflow, run structured discovery, refine the offer, build a qualified pipeline, and align scope and pricing with delivery.
Month 2 — Sell: Run discovery and solution-design meetings, produce scoped proposals, validate pricing and delivery assumptions, advance opportunities, define value measurement, and secure a paid pilot.
Month 3 — Prove: Onboard at least one paying customer, establish the delivery and governance cadence, document the first repeatable sales-to-delivery process, and build a repeatable approach for the next customer.
The essential 90-day outcome: at least one paying customer onboarded, and a credible, repeatable path to more.
The Offer
Salary Package : A pre-agreed salary of $80,000 to $120,000 per year set against revenue, cash flow, scope and performance.
Longterm ownership: A defined path to significant ownership, subject to agreed milestones and continued contribution. Vesting, transfer and governance terms are settled in the formal Co-Founder agreement.
The structure is deliberate. Modest cash early, real ownership as the revenue arrives.
Your Ideal Experience
We are not looking for a technical Co-founder or software developer.
You are a commercial leader who:
Most importantly, you are motivated to build the commercial company around a ready-to-deploy product and establish PowerOpsHQ as the trusted remote operations partner for renewable asset owners.
Why Now
Renewable portfolios are growing faster than the teams monitoring them. Every new site adds alarms, screens and manual escalation work and owners are running out of ways to scale headcount against it. At the same time, asset owners are done buying more dashboards; they want accountability, prioritized action and protected production, not another notification feed. AI-agentic operations have matured to the point where this is finally deliverable and PowerOps IQ is already doing it across 8 GW. The product is built and proven.
The Co-Founder's job is to reach the market first, win its trust, and establish PowerOpsHQ as the trusted remote operations partner before someone else does.
How to Apply. Apply here →
Learn more:
PowerOpsHQ is a venture built through A Foundery's studio model. We build cash-positive businesses through focused, repeatable execution and real value creation.
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