General Manager – California

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Job Title: General Manager – California

Location: California (On-site)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive

Equity: Benchmarked

Role Overview:

You will lead Isembard’s first owned factory in California — building resilient, high-performance manufacturing capacity in a strategically critical environment. This role requires operational discipline, adaptability and strong leadership under dynamic conditions.

You are responsible for revenue, execution and compliance while integrating Isembard factories into the global MasonOS network.

Key Responsibilities:

Launch Isembard’s first California factory
Build and lead a high-trust local team with support from Isembard globally
Build relationships with defence and industrial customers
Identify and convert high-quality franchisees
Maintain strict quality and security standards
Ensure operational continuity and resilience
Deploy MasonOS

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Leadership experience in an operationally intensive environment (business or wider)
Comfort operating in complex or high-risk environments
Strong operational and logistical capability
Fluency in English
High integrity and mission-driven mindset

What We Offer:

Leadership in a strategically critical industrial region
Equity participation
High-trust mandate to build resilient operations
Direct impact on defence and industrial supply chains
Opportunity to shape long-term sovereign manufacturing capability

About Isembard:

Isembard is on a mission to forge industrial acceleration. We enable faster and cheaper products to be made for critical industries by combining advanced machine tools, robotics and our proprietary software, MasonOS. The components we manufacture are used in aerospace, defence, energy and other strategically important sectors.

Our values:

If not now, when
Follow the five maxims
Humour and humility