# 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