Logistics Lead

Role: Logistics Lead

Salary: $75,000 - $120,000 + equity + benefits 

Location: Remote with travel as required 

Manufactured is a venture backed inventory platform. We are building the first inventory exchange for SMBs creating, making, and selling physical products around the world. We serve customers doing $1M - $100M in annual revenues in Fashion, Accessories, Healthcare, Construction Materials, CPG, Food, Electronics, Home Goods, Industrials, and Commodities. 

With over 1200+ vendors across 25 countries (and growing), we make the inventory cycle a breeze by handling everything from vendor discovery and negotiation to shipping, warehouse coordination, quality control, PO advances, through to collections. With over $150 million in volume powered by Manufactured since we launched in 2019, we deliver a compelling inventory partnership for fast growing SMBs. 

We are a post-Product Market Fit, Series A startup that is growing 850% Year on Year. There is tremendous opportunity in our ~45 person team to take ownership, make an impact, and build an extremely rewarding, accomplished career. 

We don’t care about: 

• Where you went to college
• What you studied
• If you’ve worked at blue chip companies 

We do care about: 

• What you’ve done
• What you can do
• How you’ll do it 

This looks like: 

• Making success a priority: We value ownership, initiative, and tenacity 
• Having a point of view: We hire smart people and want to hear opinions. We’re low ego, and we welcome feedback and new ideas informed by data and intuition 
• Being a good person and teammate: We all contribute to a positive, inclusive workplace. Direct communication, kindness, and integrity are non-negotiables 

You’ll be trusted and challenged to do your best work in a fast moving, high performing environment. If this sounds like you, please read on! 

As our Logistics Lead you’ll ensure seamless international and domestic logistics operations, and partner with our technical teams to build new logistics software and dashboards. 

As our Logistics Lead you’ll ensure seamless international and domestic logistics operations, and partner with our technical teams to build new logistics software and dashboards. 

Qualifications: 

• You have a minimum of 7 years experience in logistics
• You must have proven experience in all transportation modes in both domestic and international logistics
• You are technically adept. You must have prior experience integrating technology solutions into logistics workflows 
• Proven experience creating and blending both technical and manual logistics processes 
• You’re adaptable and are as comfortable in a boardroom as you are in a warehouse 
• You excel in fast-paced and entrepreneurial environments. We value proven startup logistics experience more than industry certifications 
• Prior experience building products with Product and Engineering teams is nice to have, but not required 
• 1-2 years experience managing 3PL's domestically and internationally

The role: 

• Orchestrate the movement of goods within the Manufactured ecosystem. Ensure that products move efficiently from factories through to their final destination; this will often involve international and domestic operations 
• Work across multiple time zones and cross-functionally to ensure freight is moving efficiently
• Use both manual processes and technology to build repeatable systems that merge international logistics with domestic and local operations
• Manage and monitor inventory using our API and new systems
• Oversee local distribution centers including warehousing, pick and pack operations, and local fulfillment 
• Partner with our technical team to build a customer facing logistics dashboard and command center to monitor inventory and create new logistics movements
• Accurately price logistics solutions and deliverables for our customers 
• Eventually, hire and lead a team of logistics specialists
• Exemplify scrappy, entrepreneurial leadership. We’re “building the airplane as we fly it” and you should act like an owner and be excited to build in an early stage environment

Working at Manufactured:  

We’re a remote first company, based in Los Angeles. Our team is around fifty people, and growing quickly. 

Manufactured is a small, fast growing startup. Which means we deal with ambiguity and require a sense of ownership from all our team members. This is reflected in our core values. 

Our core values are: 

Urgency: Always act like an owner, seek help in case of delays beyond 48 hours, move quickly when you have enough information (usually 70-75%), know when to dive in if there’s a crisis, and hold true to the best possible timelines without compromising on quality, value or process.

Authenticity: Be Authentic, be real, be respectful both, in front of and behind a person’s back. If you are frustrated, you’re frustrated. If you’re stuck, you’re stuck. If you’re worried, you’re worried. Let's support each other in resolving these issues. Be upfront and respectful in your conversation. We are a multi cultural, distributed, global team. Respectful authenticity in communication is critical.

Contextual Ownership: Our business is as much about people and relationships as it is about technology and process. We take time to build relationships and understand the needs of our internal and external partners. Context and empathy helps us understand the “why”. We set goals and drive outcomes based on context and realities, rather than tasks and process alone.

Effectiveness: Did it work? Did it solve the problem? Was it a short term hack? or a long term process solution that benefits everyone? Was it something we can use to grow / move forward or was it a defensive solution. Did we meet our stakeholders’ expectations, did we exceed them? Did our stakeholders all win? Are you using your time correctly? Are you helping your team members use their time well? Are you contributing to the growth of the company?

Critical path thinking: "What is the shortest risk-mitigated route to the Best Potential Outcome?"

Our CEO and Founder, Pranay Srinivasan, writes often on LinkedIn about our culture and operating principles. We recommend these articles in particular: 

Our Core Values

Our operating framework: OBAS