VP - Operations
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Manesar, Gurugram, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- About this role
- As VP of Operations at Armory, you are the operational backbone of the company. You will own how Armory builds, delivers, and scales that turn the founder’s vision into a company that ships real defen
- Production & Manufacturing: Own end-to-end manufacturing operations. Throughput, capacity, yield, on-time delivery and scale our production facility as we grow.
- Supply Chain & Procurement: Build a resilient supply chain and vendor ecosystem, own strategic sourcing and inventory, and make sure we never stall a build for want of materials.
- Quality & Compliance: Stand up and own quality systems and standards (ISO 9001 / AS9100 and defense quality requirements), and ensure every product meets the reliability the field demands.
- Program & Delivery Management: Own delivery against orders, contracts, timelines and manage programs end to end and keep commitments to customers and partners.
- Regulatory, Licensing & Government Interface: Navigate defense licensing, certifications, and regulatory requirements, and manage relationships with government bodies, defense agencies, and auditors.
- Finance & Business Operations: Own operational budgets, drive unit economics and cost control, and partner with the founder on the numbers that run the business.
- People & Organization: Build, structure, and lead operational teams; design the org as it scales; and set the standard for execution and accountability.
- Systems, Process & Infrastructure: Put the ERP, SOPs, metrics, and operational infrastructure in place so the company runs on systems including facilities, EHS, and safety.
- Strategy & Execution: Work directly with the founder to translate strategy into operational reality, and make the hard trade-offs that keep Armory moving fast.
- 12+ years of experience in operations, manufacturing, or supply chain, with significant time in senior leadership.
- Proven track record of building and scaling operations ideally in hardware, manufacturing, or a product company.
- Deep experience across manufacturing, supply chain, and quality, with the ability to own all of it at once.
- Experience owning budgets, cost, and operational P&L.
- A track record of building and leading large cross-functional teams.
- Strong systems-and-process thinking paired with a genuine bias for action where you build structure without slowing things down.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and high-pressure, fast-moving environments.
Nice to have
- Experience in defense, aerospace, or other regulated, high-reliability hardware industries.
- Familiarity with defense licensing, DGQA/certification processes, government/military liaison, and export controls.
- 0-to-1 or early-stage experience standing up operations and manufacturing from scratch.
- Experience scaling a production facility through rapid growth.
- An engineering or technical background that lets you go deep with the product and manufacturing teams.
- A career that makes us go, "This is exactly the operator we need to scale Armory."
Full description
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What is Armory?
What we are building requires hard work, tenacity, ownership, creativity and way more man-hours than an everyday job.
If you are a savant at what you do, love autonomy, have high agency and genuinely want to impact the future of this country, we want you to work with us starting yesterday!
Modern conflicts waged remotely demand a radical rethinking of strategy as adversaries deploy inexpensive drones and technology to inflict maximum damage with minimal risk.
If you prefer routine over the dynamic unpredictability of innovation, Armory isn’t for you. Our fast-paced environment requires genuine curiosity, resilience, a passion for continuous learning, and comfort with rapid change.
Armory is a new-age defence tech startup building next-generation products to strengthen Indian forces in the modern battlefields.
About the founder
Amardeep Singh is an IIT Bombay alumnus & an aerospace engineer by education. He was a founding member of ideaForge - currently India’s biggest drone company & the first drone company to get listed on the Indian stock exchange.
His 16-year entrepreneurial journey is marked by a series of ambitious ventures spanning across diverse tech domains like Drones, Consumer Hardware, B2B SaaS & AI.
Problems we solve
Our country’s defence systems, conceived in a bygone era, have been outpaced by the rapid advancements in technology, revealing critical gaps that we, at Armory, are poised to bridge.
At Armory, we identify and solve the most critical, complex & specific challenges in modern warfare. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and diving deep into specific problems, we create innovative defence technologies and products that protect our nation and allies.
Why you should NOT join us:
If high stakes, tight deadlines, and significant challenges don’t excite you, then our mission to revolutionise defence technology might not align with your career goals. We seek individuals who are ready to push boundaries and are motivated by the urgency of now.
Why you SHOULD join us:
We offer the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects that strengthen national defence, supported by a team of A players.
Join Armory if you’re drawn to solving hard problems and want to create a meaningful & profound impact to the national security.