Supply Chain Lead

What you’ll do

• Own the supply chain end to end: sourcing, procurement, supplier management, inventory, materials planning, and logistics.
• Define and execute the supply chain strategy as Icarus scales across the full lifecycle — from low-rate prototype builds to high-rate production.
• Build the supply chain organization: structure, roles, hiring, and the operating cadence to run it as the team grows.
• Build and manage a network of high-performing suppliers for flight hardware across avionics, electronics, structures and composites, solar, energy storage, mechanical, and RF.
• Attack long-lead and single-source risk before it becomes a flight blocker. Build buffer, qualify second sources, and stay ahead of demand.
• Drive make-vs-buy and vertical integration decisions together with engineering and manufacturing.
• Stand up the systems, KPIs, and end-to-end visibility (ERP/MRP, receiving, incoming inspection) that let the company see and control its material flow.
• Negotiate pricing, terms, and lead times with suppliers, and own PO and vendor management.
• Own supply chain export-control and compliance posture for a defense aerospace company: country-of-origin and domestic sourcing requirements, counterfeit-part avoidance, and supplier quality.

What we’re looking for

• You are an elite operator. You get parts in the door and you get things done.
• You are organized, intense, low-ego, and allergic to bureaucracy.
• You can operate at 60,000 feet and on the factory floor in the same day.
• You have deep experience in supply chain, sourcing, or procurement for complex hardware, and you have owned a supply base and beaten lead times on hard-to-source parts.
• You have taken a product from development or prototype into production and scaled the supply chain to match.
• You are hands-on with ERP/MRP and the systems and KPIs that give a company end-to-end material visibility.
• You can build not just a supply chain, but a supply chain team and operating cadence, without slowing the company down.
• You have extremely high ownership. When a part is late, you fix it. When a supplier is a risk, you replace them. When something is moving too slowly, you accelerate it.
• You do not need hand-holding. You find the problem, create the plan, and drive it to completion.
• You are comfortable working directly with the CEO and senior technical leaders, and making decisions with incomplete information.

Why Icarus

• A lot of equity
• Top market salary and bonuses
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Factory in El Segundo
• Real ownership, real hardware, real flight
• Small team, massive responsibility (but growing very fast)
• High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture
• Dream desk setup
• Daily lunch
• Unlimited celsius

Hiring process

• Intro call
• Working session with CEO
• Meet the team in-person
• Reference checks

US salary range

$140,000 - $230,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.

Hightly competitive equity grants are considered part of Icarus' total compensation package.