About Harbinger
Harbinger Motors Inc. is a Southern Californiabased electric vehicle manufacturer on a mission to transform the automotive and transportation industries bringing to market EVs developed from the ground up to address the needs of the Medium Duty vehicle industry. This broad and to date poorly addressed market segment includes class 4 to 7 commercial delivery vehicles RVs and utility vehicles among others. Leveraging a foundation of proprietary inhouse developed vehicle technologies Harbingers firstofitskind EV platform will bring enhancements in vehicle performance durability and operator comfort. And importantly Harbingers vehicles will be priced for zero acquisition premium relative to traditional gas and dieselbased competitors removing one of the most tenacious barriers to EV adoption.
Harbingers team with operations in Southern California and Michigan includes industry veterans with expertise in powertrain battery chassis and software development along with leaders in advanced manufacturing corporate development operations and finance. Our team members come from leading innovators both in and out of the automotive industry including Tesla Rivian Canoo Ford Anduril and SpaceX.
Founded in 2021 Harbinger is a venturebacked startup on a rapid growth trajectory looking for candidates that thrive on tackling complex challenges and who share in our passion to bring clean transportation alternatives to a segment of the market starving for innovation.
Harbinger is an electric vehicle startup dedicated to sustainability and a cleaner future. Were looking for an IT Operations Manager to lead a team in a fastpaced hyper growth environment. This person will oversee the daily management and strategic direction of our IT systems ensuring excellent service reliability and security.
Responsibilities
IT Operations & Systems Administration
- Lead and mentor a team of IT support specialists
- Develop IT policies and best practices to scale with company growth.
- Deep collaboration with all departments to ensure seamless IT operations.
- Manage vendor relationships and procurement for hardware/software.
- Responsible for monitoring and ensuring compliance with SLAs by overseeing the IT ticket queue
- Manage and oversee a 24x7x365 oncall rotation
- Oversee endpoint device and asset management (desktops laptops peripherals etc)
- Manage onprem and SaaS software and systems
- Administer identity & access management (IAM) and security policies.
- Ensure smooth onboarding and offboarding of employees.
- Provide network support (WiFi VPN troubleshooting connectivity issues)
- Oversee our collaboration tools conferencing services and associated hardware. (Zoom Slack AV equipment etc)
Requirements
- 5 years of IT experience with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Strong knowledge IT service management methodologies such as ITIL
- Strong expertise in supporting Windows Mac Linux iOS and Android.
- Handson experience with SaaS administration and IAM solutions.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals (firewalls VPNs WiFi).
- Excellent problemsolving communication and leadership skills.
- Experience in a highgrowth startup environment is a plus.
Equal Opportunity
Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin ancestry sex sexual orientation gender gender expression gender identity genetic information or characteristics physical or mental disability marital/domestic partner status age military/veteran status medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.
Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process please email us at
Candidate Data Privacy
Harbinger may collect use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (Candidate Personal Data). This data includes contact demographic communications educational professional employment social media/website network/device recruiting system usage/interaction security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process including assessing you and your application and conducting employment background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties including individuals on our HR legal and finance teams and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbingers service providers including providers of background checks staffing services and cloud services.
Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data including to or in the United States Canada the United Kingdom and the European Union and in the cloud and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.