Whistle Robotics
Commercial Associate
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About Us
Whistle Robotics is making automation accessible to every factory. Our mission is to help small and medium-sized manufacturers increase productivity, extend machine utilisation, and overcome labour shortages.
We do this by building intelligent, task-specific robots that can be deployed quickly and easily, starting with CNC machine tending.
Our team combines deep technical and commercial expertise. Our CEO, Pete, is a repeat founder who previously built and exited a venture-backed manufacturing company, while our CTO, Gio, has spent 15 years building software at the intersection of AI and advanced manufacturing (CloudNC and Autodesk). We are backed by leading investors in AI and robotics.
The Role
As our Commercial Associate, you will work directly with the CEO across the highest-priority commercial challenge today: turning early product traction into a repeatable pipeline of customers.
- Own outbound and pipeline generation. Build and run our outbound motion (email, LinkedIn, phone, and site visits) targeting CNC and precision engineering shops. Test channels, write the scripts, make the calls, and turn what works into a documented, repeatable playbook.
- Own customer proposals end-to-end: Help qualify opportunities, gather customer requirements, build ROI cases, coordinate technical input from engineering, write proposals and keep deals moving from first conversation to trial or signed contract.
- Support early customer implementations: Be on-site with customers, help coordinate trials and deployments, make sure implementations stay on track, capture issues quickly, and ensure customers have a great experience from day one.
- Automate how we work: Identify repetitive manual work, and systematically automate it using AI and workflow tools such as Claude, n8n, spreadsheets, CRM systems and internal agents.
- Operations and supply chain support: Occasional support to tackle operational and supply chain challenges as we scale.
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Who You Are
- You have 1–3 years of experience in a startup, high-growth company, consulting, finance, operations, commercial strategy or another demanding environment where you have learned quickly and taken ownership.
- You are strong with people. You can speak directly with customers, build trust with factory owners and operators, run a meeting independently, and represent the company professionally on-site.
- You are highly commercial and action-oriented. You are comfortable with ambiguity, happy to pick up unfamiliar problems, and able to move from strategy to execution without needing a perfect brief.
- You are confident using AI and automation tools. You already use tools like Claude to make yourself faster and better, or you are excited to learn them quickly.
A Note on "Experience": Research shows that exceptional people from underrepresented groups often only apply to jobs if they meet 100% of the criteria. If you are a brilliant operator who loves building things, but you don't check every single box above, please apply anyway. We value talent, grit, and the ability to learn over a perfect resume.
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Why join us?
- Ground-floor opportunity: Be part of our founding team. You will have a significant equity stake and a direct influence on the company’s trajectory.
- Real-world meaning and impact: We are deploying robots today. Your work will enable small local businesses to adopt Physical AI and drive the reshoring of production.
- World-class team: Work directly with founders who have been there and done it, in both manufacturing and deep-tech AI.
- The lab: A well-equipped workspace in London where you have the tools, resources, and autonomy to build.
Our values
We are a small, high-velocity team. We look for people who resonate with:
- Driven by curiosity: You aren't afraid to dive into a problem outside your core discipline. You approach every problem with humility and a strong desire to learn.
- Focused and incremental: You ship high-quality products fast. You achieve that, not by working extra hours, but by working methodically, incrementally, constantly testing your own assumptions and focusing on the right things. Building a meaningful business is a marathon, not a sprint.
- Extreme ownership: You don't wait for a ticket to be assigned. You see a gap in the product? You design a solution and you implement it.
- Greater than the sum of parts: You amplify everyone around you. We are building something that matters, and we can’t do that alone. We work hard, in person, because the best engineering happens when the team is at the whiteboard (or the workbench) together.
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