Sola Wood Flowers is hiring a Manufacturing Operations Manager to run operations at our Kolkata production facility.
On a Saturday morning somewhere in America, a bride walks down the aisle holding flowers made by hand on your floor. There is no re-ship date for a wedding. Getting that right, every day, at scale, is what this job is.
Who we are
Sola Wood Flowers makes affordable, eco-friendly wooden flowers. Every piece is handcrafted, and our flowers now show up in more than 6% of American weddings each year. We are building a modernized, vertically integrated platform north of $100M across DTC, owned retail, and wholesale, and India is central to how we grow.
Before you apply
This is not a desk job and it is not a reporting job. You lead from the floor, next to your supervisors, while the work is happening. The pace is real. If you are looking for a low-stress 9-to-5, we would rather tell you now.
Your responsibilities
- Own day-to-day operations of the Kolkata facility: output, quality, people, and process.
- Deliver volume and lead-time targets. Every wedding order ships on time. Fixed date, no do-over.
- Grow your supervisors. The mark of a great operations leader is a floor that performs without them.
- See the bottleneck coming before it costs a ship day.
- Practice lean and kaizen daily. Cut waste, raise throughput, improve unit economics as we scale.
What you bring
- Real experience running manufacturing or production operations, ideally in handcrafted, labor-intensive settings.
- A track record of managing large teams.
- A data-driven working style. Excel/Sheets fluency will come up in the interview.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
- On-site daily in Kolkata.
- Able to provide references.
What you get
Ownership, not a warm seat. Smart people, low drama, and a clearly defined compensation philosophy. You win when we win.
The hiring process
A short intro conversation, then a longer technical interview on production operations. We will not waste your time or ours on a mishire. Your KPIs and targets are agreed together up front, so you always know how you are doing. We run on EOS/Traction (Scaling Up and OKRs adjacent). Average time from first interview to decision: about 8 to 10 days.
Apply now - we read every application :)
