VP of Operations

About this role

# VP of Operations

## Mission

LENS’s mission is to end traffic accidents. LENS prevents accidents and saves lives by detecting hazards to prevent accidents before they happen.

## Platform & Product

LENS Detect scans CCTV feeds on highways to identify hazards, in real-time, before they become accidents. Public Safety agencies, alongside Departments of Transportation, receive alerts on the LENS Detect dashboard about Disabled Vehicles, Stalled Big Rigs, and Pedestrians on Freeway. A dispatcher reviews and validates the detection, and then dispatches an officer to the scene to assist the person in need — resulting in either preventing an accident or saving a life.

CBS LA recently did a three minute TV feature that succinctly captures what LENS is doing with Public Safety Agencies in one of the largest traffic capitols in the world:

[CHP LA Communications Center using AI to prevent accidents before they happen](http://youtube.com/watch?v=KrY2NVJ2eno)

## Role & Responsibilities

As the VP of Operations, you seek transformational change. You do not accept the status quo that accidents are an accepted inevitability, or that *they just happen*. Instead, you believe when the root cause of an accident can be known in advance, the accident can and should be prevented. You work with fellow Preventers that share this core belief, using LENS to prevent accidents and save lives.

Your responsibilities are:

• **Build and lead our business organization.** Develop the business functions that power LENS, including Marketing, Communications, Customer Impact, People, and other functions as the company grows and create an organization capable of compounding its impact over time.
• **Translate company strategy into operational execution.** Partner closely with the leadership team to turn long-term strategy into clear priorities, measurable objectives, and coordinated execution across the company.
• **Design our systems for scale.** Establish the planning processes,...