Lachlan Mitchell

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Founder at Opal Robotics · D2C food brands · marketing, supply chain

Opal Robotics
Auckland, New Zealand · NZST (UTC+12)
10+ years experience
Melbourne Business School
English
Hiring
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Overview

Building Opal Robotics in Auckland - D2C food brands. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company. Before that: Lazada and Kakao. Most at home with supply chain and marketing.

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Skills
supply chainconsumer brandsSaaSmarketing
HiringHiring for a role
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Opal Robotics is hiring 2 founding engineers in Auckland

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$158k-$227k
Team
Founding team, 12 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with supply chain Production experience with marketing Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp S$121k-S$239k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Auckland, New Zealand · remote OKsaasconsumer brandsmarketing
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Opal Robotics · 10 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Signed 44 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $10 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Consultant
    Feb 2024 - Aug 2025
    Lazada · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $49 million.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 40 deals.
  3. Consultant
    Mar 2022 - Feb 2024
    Kakao · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $145 million.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 17 deals.
  4. Business Analyst
    Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
    Coupang · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Moved 76% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Associate Partner
    Feb 2017 - Dec 2020
    REA Group · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Shipped 12 launches on the web team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Melbourne Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2017 - 2019
  2. UNSW Sydney
    BEng, Economics
    2012 - 2016

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