Founder & CEO (IoT)

Location: Hybrid role based in Perth or Melbourne, Australia; willingness to operate on the ground in the UK or Australia is required.

Company

hirify.global builds and funds startups with entrepreneurs and corporate partners, providing capital, operational expertise, venture-building support, and access to industry networks.

What you will do

• Define the initial mining geography, buyer segment, procurement channel, and construction-market expansion strategy.
• Work with sensor and manufacturing partners to take the three-in-one wearable clip and dashboard from concept to pilot-ready product.
• Convert warm introductions into a paying pilot with a major mining or industrial operator.
• Develop the per-worker subscription model and evaluate insurer co-funding and partner-led distribution.
• Use tightening dust and heat regulations to create procurement urgency.
• Hire the initial team, raise capital, and establish the company as a category leader in wearable industrial safety.

Requirements

• Founder or senior operator who has built a hardware-and-software or IoT product from zero to one.
• Deep familiarity with mining, heavy-industry health and safety, occupational health, or enterprise construction buyers.
• Strong enterprise commercial skills, including selling preventative products to CFOs or health and safety directors and converting pilots into multi-year contracts.
• Product and technical fluency in sensors, edge computing, device economics, and connected products.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, making high-impact decisions, and shaping the product and buyer strategy with incomplete data.
• Willingness to work on the ground in the UK or Australia, with credibility among industrial buyers and venture investors.

Nice to have

• Experience in industrial, mining, safety technology, or occupational-health markets.
• Experience commercializing connected hardware through enterprise or partner-led sales.

Culture & Benefits

• €275,000 of spin-out capital, plus a founder stipend and studio budget.
• Hands-on support across product, growth, fundraising, AI/ML, design, legal, and hiring.
• Full-time venture builders to support the MVP and initial product launch.
• Six months of operational support after launch.
• Access to investors, corporate partners, industrial networks, a vetted concept, and domain insight.