Head of Platform

The posting, as Ironsite Ai wrote it

About Ironsite

Ironsite is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We design our own wearable hardware, deploy it alongside craft workers, and transform a shift's footage into a next-morning report. Our internal team and purpose-built models label the data overnight and deliver actionable insights to superintendents by 5 AM.

We are accelerating the speed, efficiency, and predictability of construction, especially for complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects, including data centers, LNG facilities, sports stadiums, hospitals, and other large-scale developments, by training AI models on egocentric construction footage and labor productivity data. We are built with a pro-worker philosophy at our core: we believe technology should empower the workforce, not replace it. We're working to give craft workers and project leaders better visibility into what's happening on-site, while creating a system where the reality of construction and the chaos of each day are finally available to the people running the project.

Ironsite is deployed across several of the largest active construction projects in the country. To date, we've captured more than 100,000 hours of construction footage across seven states, now process thousands of hours of site activity every day, and maintain a worker opt-out rate below two percent. This is enabled by a workforce-first architecture that anonymizes devices, captures no audio, and never releases raw video.

Ironsite is backed by leading investors (8VC, South Park Commons, Saga Ventures) and prominent operators across technology and construction, including Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Leslie, Scott Wu, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Russell Kaplan, and others, alongside over a dozen construction industry operators who have joined us as partners in building this.

Longer term, we believe Ironsite is the foundation for what construction becomes in the next decade. The systems we're building will be the operating system for how the physical world gets built. We see a future where craft workers are more valued, more visible, and better paid for the skill they bring, and where the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both start with the same foundation.

The Role

We're hiring our first Head of Platform to lead the team building Ironsite's platform, the product surface that turns our data into the intelligence construction teams act on every day.

You'll own the technical direction, execution, and growth of the platform engineering team as we scale from a small IC-heavy group into a full function over the next 18 to 24 months. The team you'll lead owns the dashboards project leaders open at 5 AM, the labor-management tools superintendents run their entire jobsite on, the mobile experience craft workers carry in their pocket, and the integration layer that connects Ironsite to the software the industry already lives in.

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rds are raising the bar across the team. You've made or scoped the first key hires, and the leads underneath you are visibly better because of your mentorship. You're contributing code weekly on real problems. The architectural direction you're driving is visible in what's shipping.

• First 6 months. You're the internal authority on how Ironsite's platform team operates. The team has scaled meaningfully, the technical bar has risen, and Ironsite ships faster and better than we did a year ago. When we scale from thousands of devices to hundreds of thousands, we do it because the team you built, the technical direction you drove, and the culture you established hold up.

Location, Compensation, & Perks

• San Francisco Bay Area (on-site)
• Base salary: $300k-$375k per year, commensurate with experience
• Meaningful founding-team equity.
• Full benefits including health, dental, vision, and 401(k) with 6% match
• Daily catered lunch
• Office in San Francisco, next to Oracle Park and the Caltrain

Final compensation is determined by experience, location, and level.

Why This Role

Every category-defining company had a platform engineering leader who was the reason the product actually worked at scale. Not the person who managed the team from a distance, but the person who was in the code every week, set the technical bar through their own work, made the hard architectural calls, and made sure the team got stronger every quarter.

Ironsite is at that moment. We have the product, the customers, the funding, and a founding team that's already earned the right to scale. What we need now is the Head of Platform who is going to build the team that ships the intelligence layer for the physical world.

If you've led platform teams at high-growth companies, still write and review code every week, and want to build the team that shapes what Ironsite becomes over the next decade, we want to talk.

Compensation
The base pay range for this role is $300,000 – $375,000 per year.