VP, Facilities
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Job Location:
Fremont, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
21 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Rigetti is building the infrastructure that enables practical quantum computing. Our facilities extend beyond traditional offices and include highly technical environments that must operate with exceptional reliability security and regulatory rigor. As the company continues to scale facilities are a critical enabler of our technology operations and growth.
Position Summary
The Vice President of Facilities will provide senior leadership across the companys facilities portfolio balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution. This role is responsible for ensuring that facilities are designed operated and evolved to meet the needs of a highly technical organization while supporting long-term growth capital planning and operational resilience.
The ideal candidate brings strong judgment comfort operating in complex environments and the ability to translate business priorities into clear facilities decisions. They will partner closely with technical and operational leaders external vendors and regulators to ensure facilities reliably support the companys mission. This role serves as a primary facilities advisor to executive leadership providing expert guidance on risk investment and long-term infrastructure decisions.
Facilities Strategy & Planning
- Define and execute a multi-year facilities strategy aligned with business growth technical requirements and operational priorities.
- Evaluate tradeoffs and frame clear decision paths for executive leadership including cost risk timing and long-term implications with the confidence to advocate for the right outcome.
- Establish frameworks and standards that enable consistent severity-based decision-making across sites balancing risk cost and operational impact.
Facilities Operations & Execution
- Provide oversight of mission-critical facilities ensuring reliability safety and operational excellence.
- Balance near-term execution with longer-term planning maintaining continuity while enabling evolution and scale.
- Partner with on-site teams to support detailed operational needs while elevating planning and prioritization.
Capital Projects & Vendor Management
- Own facilities-related capital and operating budgets; lead major projects from planning through delivery.
- Lead and oversee facilities portfolios spanning multiple sites and geographies including responsibility for large-scale capital programs ranging from tens to hundreds of millions of dollars across varying regulatory environments.
- Manage relationships with external contractors and service providers including negotiating scope cost and performance.
- Ensure competitive pricing and accountability across vendors by benchmarking alternatives soliciting competitive bids when appropriate and applying strong business judgment to assess cost scope and risk.
Compliance Safety & Risk Management
- Ensure compliance with environmental health safety security and government regulatory requirements including operating facilities in security-sensitive or government-regulated environments.
- Operate comfortably within regulated environments while maintaining a pragmatic business-oriented approach.
- Identify and mitigate facilities-related risks across the portfolio.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Build and lead a lean high-impact facilities organization over time.
- Serve as a trusted partner to executives and cross-functional leaders helping contextualize facilities decisions within broader business objectives.
- Foster a hands-on ownership-driven culture aligned with the companys values.
Expansion & Scalability
- Lead planning and execution for new sites as well as facility expansions across a multi-site global footprint.
- Develop repeatable approaches templates and playbooks that enable consistent execution as the facilities portfolio scales.
- Serve as a facilities subject-matter expert and trusted advisor for internal teams and select external stakeholders supporting growth siting and deployment considerations while exercising sound judgment around information sensitivity.
Required Qualifications
- 15 years of senior leadership experience in facilities infrastructure or related operational roles within technically complex environments such as data centers semiconductor fabrication high-precision labs or similar environments.
- Proven ability to lead large-scale multi-site capital projects and make high-impact decisions with incomplete information.
- Strong experience managing external vendors and service providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of regulatory safety and compliance requirements relevant to advanced technical facilities.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced evolving organizations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with quantum hardware facility needs such as dilution refrigerators vibration-sensitive environments and ultra-low temperature control.
- Experience supporting or leading facilities across international sites including navigating differing regulatory compliance and operational requirements.
- Demonstrated comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels particularly in lean or evolving organizations with high complexity and broad scope.
$250000 - $300000 a year
Base Salary
Rigetti complies with all local and state regulations in regards to displaying salary ranges. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates relevant work experience skills and geographic location. Rigetti offers a full slate of benefits from competitive salaries equity medical dental and vision for employees as well as a 401(k) plan a paid parental leave program rejuvenation days and avacation policy that aligns with local regulations and industry standards.
As engineering leaders we value diversity and are committed to building a culture of inclusion to attract and engage innovative thinkers. Our technology meant to serve all of humanity cannot succeed if those who built it do not mirror the diversity of the communities we serve. Applications from women minorities and other under-represented groups are encouraged.
About Rigetti
Rigetti Computing is a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing. The company has operated quantum computers over the cloud since 2017 and serves global enterprise government and research clients through its Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services platform. The companys proprietary quantum-classical infrastructure provides ultra-low latency integration with public and private clouds for high-performance practical quantum computing. Rigetti has developed the industrys first multi-chip quantum processor for scalable quantum computing systems. The company designs and manufactures its chips in-house at Fab-1 the industrys first dedicated and integrated quantum device manufacturing facility. Rigetti was founded in 2013 and today employs more than 150 people with offices in the United States U.K. and Australia. Learn more at .
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Rigetti is committed to full compliance with applicable anti-discrimination laws. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We strive to create an inclusive work environment and will not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
Exec
Key Skills
- Employee Evaluation
- Facilities Maintenance
- Maximo
- Facilities Management
- HVAC
- Mechanical Knowledge
- CMMS
- Maintenance Management
- OSHA
- Maintenance
- Cordova
- Supervising Experience
