Senior Launch Manager, Ever - Costa Mesa

Senior Launch Manager About Ever Ever is a direct-to-consumer dealership built entirely around used electric vehicles. We buy, recondition, and sell EVs through a fully integrated retail and reconditioning operation, making it dramatically easier for people to buy a quality, fully inspected electric car. Headquartered in San Francisco with operations across California, Ever is backed by leading investors and is scaling its footprint to bring trusted, transparent EV ownership to more customers.

The Role As Senior Launch Manager, you own how Ever opens its next generation of operating sites. You take a location from an empty building to a fully running customer or reconditioning and service center — designing the layout and operational flows, sequencing the build-out, leading the launch team, and delivering an operational site on date and on budget. Reporting to the VP of Operations and based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles, you lead a team of front-end and back-end Launch Managers and functional specialists, and you partner with the Program Managers and functional leaders who support each launch.

You bring strategy, budgets, and launch plans to senior leadership for decision and funding. This is a high-ownership, field-heavy role (roughly 75% travel) for someone who loves turning plans into open doors. What You’ll Own Site design process flow — Design end-to-end operational layouts and process flows for new customer, reconditioning, and service centers — space planning, workstations, vehicle staging, and throughput paths — partnering with Operations, Recon, and Facilities to get the design right before a lease is signed.

Launch schedule gate governance — Build and own the master launch schedule for each site with clearly defined phase gates, milestones, and deliverables; drive the critical path and hold cross-functional owners to dated commitments. Punch list site setup — Create and manage the full setup punch list for each location — equipment and tooling orders, vendor and general-contractor coordination, IT and systems provisioning, signage, lifts, and FF E — through to a fully outfitted, inspection-ready facility. Go-live operational readiness — Stand up sites with full operational capability from day one: staffing in place, SOPs live, systems tested, and a documented go-live readiness checklist signed off before launch.

On-time, on-budget delivery — Hit committed launch dates and budget targets; surface schedule and cost risk early with mitigation plans, and escalate blockers before they move a date. Team leadership — Build, coach, and lead a launch team of 5–6 — front-end Launch Managers who stand up Sales and F I, and back-end Launch Managers who stand up Recon and Service — supported by 2–3 functional-expert specialists who report into those managers to establish processes and train newly hired employees at each site. Cross-functional partnership — Partner with the Program Managers and functional leaders across Operations, Facilities, IT, and People who support each launch; set the plan, standards, and sequence they execute against while owning the overall outcome.

Requirements

, and status updates to senior leadership for decision and funding. Repeatable launch playbook — Capture each launch into a repeatable playbook so every subsequent site opens faster, more predictably, and more consistently as the network scales. What Good Looks Like Sites launched — Open 6–10 new customer, reconditioning, and service sites over the next 18 months.

On time, on budget — Every site delivered on or ahead of schedule, at or under budget. Fast ramp to capability — Each site reaches its target operational capability and throughput within 60–90 days of go-live.