Strategic Projects Associate (San Francisco, CA)

We believe robots are the biggest lever we have to making the physical world a better, more affordable place. But robots are a rounding error in our society: nearly nine out of ten American factories and warehouses don’t even have a single robot, and robots have yet to make their way into our homes or places of business.

Tutor Intelligence is changing that.

Tutor is a robotics research and deployment company, building generally capable robot hardware and artificial intelligence to enable robots to go where no robots have gone before. Sonny is a semi-humanoid robot with frontier dexterity approaching the human form. Cassie does back-breaking work, moving boxes, pallets, and bulk goods for businesses from family-owned manufacturers to some of the largest brands in the world. Tutor robots are manufactured at scale and operate as a network, combining the whole fleet’s learned experience to train ever more capable robot artificial intelligence.

Founded at MIT and headquartered in Watertown, MA, our team is full stack: we design and manufacture robot hardware, train our own models, work directly with the smallest and largest end-customers, and maintain our fleet across the United States. We’re a team of researchers, engineers, technicians, operators, and sellers who love building things and solving hard problems.

Our mission is grand: robots everywhere, for the common good, raising the standard of living across North America, and then the world.

Why Tutor?

Whether you’re designing robots, closing deals, running deployments, or creating the processes that help us scale, your work doesn’t sit on a shelf. It shows up on real production floors, making physical work safer and more affordable.

Our team of 160+ is driven by curiosity and a genuine love of building. Everyone here takes real ownership, learns fast, and holds a high bar while having each other’s backs. If you love hard problems and creating things that didn’t exist before, you’ll fit right in.

Responsibilities

• Drive very early-stage exploratory sales and dealmaking processes, including outreach, framing, and follow-up.
• Coordinate with customers, partners, investors, vendors, and domain experts to move conversations and projects forward.
• Gather technical input from engineering teams and translate it into clear external communication and realistic opportunity framing.
• Maintain momentum across multiple threads through structured communication, scheduling, and consistent follow-through.
• Produce a high volume of clear written communication, including emails, briefs, one-pagers, and meeting recaps.
• Identify creative angles and approaches to advance new product concepts, partnerships, or commercial opportunities.
• Support leadership on high-impact special projects that span commercial, product, and strategic domains.

Requirements

• 1–4 years in a fast-paced environment (consulting, VC, IB, startup, PM, strategy, or similar).
• Technical background or comfort: engineering degree/minor, technical coursework, or experience working closely with technical teams.
• Strong client-facing instincts: able to sell, persuade, negotiate, and build relationships with external stakeholders.
• Exceptionally organized, capable of managing many concurrent threads without losing track.
• Excellent written communication: concise, precise, high-volume email and message writing.
• Creative and entrepreneurial mindset; ability to ideate, frame opportunities, and navigate ambiguity.
• High ownership and reliability; comfortable taking vague ideas and structuring them into concrete next steps.