Operating Executive Jobs in Georgia (NOW HIRING)

This is a founding President & Chief Operating Officer role — the senior operating executive accountable for building, leading, and scaling the entire electric vehicle business from the ground up. You will own full P&L responsibility across commercial strategy, operations, manufacturing execution, and go-to-market performance, leading both the operating company and its vehicle brand.

You will report to the Chairman & CEO of BroadPeak Investment Group, who will partner closely with you through the early build — particularly on regulatory, capital, and manufacturer-relationship matters — while you own day-to-day execution. This is a rare opportunity to build and own the trajectory of a company from day one: a leader who delivers will have room to grow with the platform as it scales nationally.

Success in this role is measured by outcomes, not activity. The defining early milestones are concrete:

• Stand up the Georgia assembly operation in Conyers — site readiness, equipment buildout, workforce ramp (including state Quick Start training), SOPs, and quality systems.
• Drive the vehicles through U.S. regulatory certification — FMVSS / LSV self-certification via NHTSA and the broader compliance pathway — in partnership with counsel and the manufacturer.
• Complete the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) and stand up a compliant franchise/dealer program — a hard prerequisite before any franchise sales.
• Build and launch the nationwide network of dealers, distributors, and franchisees, and close the first franchise/fleet cohort.
• Establish unit economics, route-to-margin discipline, and a repeatable production-to-delivery model that scales from pilot volume toward several thousand units per year.

• Full P&L accountability across revenue, margin, cash, and operational performance.
• Manufacturing & assembly — the Conyers operation end to end: facility, workforce, production scaling, quality, and the manufacturer relationship (supply planning, CKD/SKD execution, product alignment).
• Go-to-market & commercial — B2B strategy across all target verticals and key fleet customers; sales, marketing, pricing, and channel activation; building and scaling the dealer/distributor/franchise network.
• Regulatory & certification — compliance across U.S. markets: FMVSS/NHTSA certification, import and customs strategy, and state LSV/registration, dealer, and franchise requirements.
• Brand — stewardship and growth of the vehicle brand as a distinct, private-label-ready identity.
• Team — recruit and develop a lean, high-leverage leadership bench (manufacturing/plant, sales/channel, finance) as volume justifies.
• External leadership — serve as a senior face of the company with customers, partners, regulators, and industry stakeholders.

• Ideal background. You come from the EV, small-vehicle, or low-speed-vehicle world — golf cart / PTV / utility-vehicle, neighborhood EV, or commercial last-mile — and you have lived the assembly, certification, and dealer-network realities of that industry firsthand.
• Two non-negotiables. Demonstrated, hands-on success in (1) scaling a vehicle/equipment assembly or manufacturing operation — CKD/SKD/OEM or contract-manufacturing experience strongly preferred — and (2) building and selling through B2B dealer, distributor, or franchise networks. Depth in one and credible command of the other is expected.
• 10–15+ years of executive leadership in automotive, EV, fleet, equipment, or related manufacturing industries, with direct P&L ownership.
• Commercial fleet command — strong understanding of commercial fleet markets or adjacent verticals (delivery, agriculture, golf, utilities, municipal, the trades).
• Regulatory fluency — working command of certification and import frameworks for vehicles or equipment (FMVSS/NHTSA, customs/tariff, state registration); franchise/FDD literacy is a strong plus.
• Logistics exposure — last-mile, parcel, or freight experience, and any hands-on work with large-scale electric fleet deployments, is directly transferable and highly valued.

• A builder who thrives in early-stage, high-accountability environments and creates structure, systems, and clarity out of ambiguity.
• Strong bias for execution; comfortable making high-impact decisions quickly with imperfect information.
• Entrepreneurial ownership mindset — measured by outcomes, not effort — and energized by taking something from zero to scale.
• Capital-disciplined and equity-motivated: you are drawn to building durable enterprise value, not to a large salary.

This role is built for an owner-operator. Compensation pairs a competitive base salary and milestone-based annual incentive with a meaningful equity stake (profits interest) that vests on time and value-creation hurdles — the primary wealth-creation mechanism in this venture. Qualified candidates may also be offered the opportunity to co-invest alongside the founder. Base salary is deliberately disciplined relative to public-company peers; the real upside is in the equity you help create.

On-site at our corporate office in Sandy Springs, GA, with a regular, hands-on presence at the assembly operation in Conyers, GA. Monday–Friday.