Director of Manufacturing

What we’re doing isn’t easy. But nothing worth doing ever is.

We envision a future powered by robots that work seamlessly with human teams. We build the Artificial Intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people and adapt to dynamic human environments. Join our team of mission-driven, venture-backed roboticists who will translate cutting-edge research into commercial reality. With your talent and passion, we will get there faster.

As the Head of Manufacturing, you will be responsible in delivering quality products supporting the aggressive company goals for growth and profitability. You will lead a dynamic team, managing all manufacturing and supply chain activities through the development, deployment, monitoring and improvement of key process indicators (KPI). In this role, you will work cross-functionally with our key supply chain partners, engineering and operations teams, interfacing with Hardware, Software, Quality, Field Service Engineering, and Product teams to ensure aggressive production ramp-up goals are being met.

Responsibilities:

• Define, plan and deploy all activities required to scale-up production capacity 3 to 5 x current level within 12-18 months including:
  • • Planning and budgeting activities 
    • Staffing and training execution plan
    • Leading, motivating, developing, and promoting company culture
    • Deployment of strategic outsourcing partner(s) combined with possible in house final integration
    • Scale-up build and test methods to ramp production while continuously improving product quality
• Implement MRP infrastructure to drive all material activities including:
  • • Forecast and material planning
    • Procurement
    • Inventory management
    • Vendor relationship and quality control
    • Inbound and outbound logistic
• Expand Manufacturing Engineering capability to:
  • • Increase sub-assembly test coverage 
    • Improve build efficiency
    • Improve product quality (zero out of box failure)
    • Reduce manufacturing cycle-time
    • Develop detailed requirements (DFX: Design for…) for next generation product
• Consolidate supply chain and develop right size, best in class vendor-partners
  • • Negotiate supply agreements for critical “components”
• Roll out cost reduction plan 

Requirements:

• Shall demonstrate relevant experience in scaling up production of high tech products in a fast growth trajectory while maintaining agility of a startup to react to the ever changing market needs.
• Must have experience in material management including sizeable implementation of an MRP system from and home grown manual planning environment.
• Must possess an engineering mindset to lead manufacturing engineering (build and test) activities focused on efficiency and quality through deployment of best practices such as lean manufacturing principles always in a safe environment.
• Should have participated in the development of an outsourcing strategy and executed the deployment of such transition from insourced manufacturing.
• Should be able to articulate successful demonstration in negotiating Supply agreements with strategic vendors
• Has a track record in successfully influencing, and leading R&D organizations towards cost reduction and next generation road-map

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering, or similar discipline
• 10+ years manufacturing complex electromechanical products at scale in the robotics, aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, or medical device industries.
• Able to comfortably and effectively operate in a startup environment while being aware of important industry best practices.
• Communicate effectively using excellent written and verbal skills with all levels of an organization
• Strong organization skills with meticulous attention to detail
• Can-do attitude and emotional intelligence