Country Launch Lead

About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.
We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.

We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.

About the Role

We operate capture operations across international markets and are aggressively expanding our global footprint.

As the Country Launch Lead, you will take full end-to-end operational accountability for taking new geographic markets from zero to fully functional, high-velocity operating units. Your mandate covers the entire deployment lifecycle: executing structured market assessment frameworks, navigating complex local legal, regulatory, and privacy requirements with local and outside counsel, establishing legal entities, banking, and physical logistics infrastructure, managing initial commercial launches and field team deployments, and executing a seamless operational handoff to permanent local leadership once steady-state performance is achieved. In parallel, you will continuously iterate on, codify, and scale our global market expansion playbook.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Launch leadership: Serve as the single point of accountability for new market expansion projects, driving execution across legal, operational, financial, and commercial workstreams to achieve target launch dates and seamlessly transfer stabilized operations to permanent local managers.

• Assessment: Execute comprehensive pre-launch feasibility assessments and legal/regulatory evaluations in partnership with legal counsel, ensuring strict adherence to regional data privacy laws, consent frameworks, import/export regulations, and local employment laws.

• Local setup: Establish initial physical and legal operating infrastructure, including entity registration, corporate bank accounts, local payment gateways, office/warehouse leases, hardware procurement, vendor logistics, and localized compliance workflows.

• Team and cadence: Recruit, onboard, and train founding local team members (country managers, operations leads, field supervisors), instilling core operating cadences, standard operating procedures, and key operational KPI scorecards from day one.

• Playbook: Continuously refine, expand, and modularize the company's global expansion playbook, standardizing budget estimation models, timeline templates, regulatory checklists, and vendor procurement toolkits for subsequent international expansions.

What You Bring:

• Experience: 5 to 8+ years of experience in operational leadership, expansion operations, corporate strategy, or general management, with demonstrated success launching at least one international country end-to-end for a high-growth, operations-intensive company.

• Setup from scratch: Direct hands-on experience building local business operations from concept to stabilization, including managing local legal setup, financial rails, commercial partner acquisition, vendor contracts, and early local hiring.

• Independence: Exceptional problem-solving skills, autonomy, and resilience when operating in unfamiliar international environments under tight constraints, paired with a willingness to travel to target expansion regions

Even Better If You Have:

• Regulatory: Deep background working directly with specialized external legal firms and government authorities to resolve complex regulatory hurdles, cross-border data transfer policies, and local labor laws.

A Note on Applying

Studies show women and candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they meet 100% of the listed qualifications, while others apply after meeting 60%. If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply — we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.

Inclusive Hiring at Mecka

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive candidate experience. Should you require any accommodation whatsoever during the interview process, please inform us without any hesitation. Mecka is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in all phases of recruitment, selection, and employment, in compliance with employment law. We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other protected category. Mecka is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, fostering a culture of inclusivity and maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

Mecka uses artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly to support administrative and efficiency-focused aspects of our recruitment process. This includes activities such as drafting job descriptions, generating interview questions, note-taking and recordings, and supporting sourcing and scheduling workflows. All candidate evaluations, interviews, and hiring decisions are made by members of the Mecka team. While AI tools may assist with screening and assessment, they do not replace human judgment in selection decisions. Our use of AI is intended to streamline routine tasks, improve consistency, and enhance the overall candidate experience. We are committed to upholding principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability in all hiring activities. Mecka regularly reviews its recruitment practices to mitigate bias and to ensure alignment with applicable laws and evolving best practices.