Launcher, Europe at Upway
Amsterdam, , Netherlands -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

11 Nov, 25

Salary

60.0

Posted On

12 Aug, 25

Experience

3 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Good communication skills

Industry

Other Industry

Description

DESCRIPTION

Upway is hiring a European launcher among its Expansion team. The Expansion team’s role is to fuel Upway’s fast paced growth by increasing our footprint and growing our processing power to follow double digit growth trajectory. They mainly do this by assessing future capacity needs and matching those by launching new Upcenters and respective teams across Europe in strategically defined locations.
The European launcher builds high performing Upcenters from scratch in record times. This means that he/she oversees warehouse selection, negotiation, entity creation, hiring, process building and general management from 0 to a robust engine that processes +$30M within a 6 month timespan.
Upway Launchers are best-in-class business builders, that develop a 360° skillset in Operations, legal, finance and leadership. They have a unique opportunity to shape the core foundation of our European success story. Their mission is to build greatness out of nothingness.

ABOUT UPWAY

At Upway, we are making electric mobility accessible to everyone. We are looking for high intelligence, high energy and high integrity people to join us on an exciting journey and reshape mobility with us.
Our mission is to make e-bikes the norm, redefining how the world moves. As the global leading platform for certified pre-owned and refurbished e-bikes, we proudly serve customers across eight countries, including France, Germany and the US.
We are an international company and operate from Paris, Antwerp, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and New York. In just three years, we achieved a fast paced growth, ambitious expansion and secured $65M+ from leading investors, including Sequoia, Exor Seed, Korelya Capital & GFC.

Responsibilities
  • Identify, negotiate and lock-in strategic locations in Europe
  • Design & Build warehouse operations
  • Hire, grow and coach a 50 FTE talent team of agents, mechanics, operations specialists and managers.
  • Implement best practice operational processes and performance monitoring systems.
  • Shape, track and adjust operations against financial performance.
  • Champion operational excellence
  • Manage relationships with suppliers, manufacturers and partners
  • Build and optimise a blueprint for future launches
  • Work closely with the regional UpCenter Operations team and leadership for future handover.
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