Strategic Sourcing Lead, Warehouse Robotics

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing strategy and supplier execution across the full robot BOM, including actuators, motors, sensors, compute modules, PCBAs, harnessing, and mechanical assemblies
• Lead the transition from prototype and in-house manufacturing toward contract manufacturing, including CM selection, qualification, onboarding, and operational scaling
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, allocation, and commercial agreements to support aggressive cost, quality, and production targets
• Build and expand strategic supplier relationships to unlock pricing advantages, engineering support, and supply continuity
• Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and compute engineering teams to drive design for manufacturability, supply chain resilience, and cost optimization
• Develop multi-source strategies for critical components and proactively mitigate allocation, geopolitical, and single-source risks
• Own BOM cost targets as the platform scales from pilot builds to large-scale deployment
• Support NPI and production ramp activities with suppliers and manufacturing partners across Asia Pacific and other global regions
• Establish sourcing processes, metrics, and supplier performance management frameworks appropriate for a rapidly scaling robotics organization

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management for hardware products
• Proven track record taking hardware products from prototype through production ramp at scale
• Direct experience with electromechanical components, PCBAs, and high-performance compute systems
• Experience transitioning products from in-house builds to contract manufacturing
• Strong supplier relationships across motors, actuators, sensors, PCBAs, compute, or robotics hardware ecosystems
• Demonstrated success negotiating pricing, lead times, allocation, and commercial agreements
• Experience in robotics, warehouse automation, autonomous systems, drones, industrial automation, or related hardware industries
• Familiarity with NPI, DFM/DFA, and manufacturing scale-up workflows
• Experience sourcing constrained or allocation-sensitive compute platforms (e.g. NVIDIA, Qualcomm, AMD)
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with international travel, primarily across Asia Pacific

Pay

Base Salary Range: $160,000 USD - $250,000 USD