Genesis AI
Head of Supply Chain (Robot Production)
Bay Area · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 10 or more years in supply chain, sourcing, or manufacturing operations for complex hardware, including time in a mature organization and a company building its operations.
About the job
Leads and builds the global supply chain organization and production network for a general-purpose robot, taking it from prototype builds to volume production.
What you'll do
- Set supply chain strategy for sourcing, manufacturing footprint, domestic content, and production scaling; manage contract manufacturers and supplier relationships.
- Own cost, supply base, capacity, quality, and risk plans, including cost-down, supplier qualification, and production transfers between regions.
- Build the supply chain team and operating systems, and work with engineering, finance, and leadership on design, planning, and performance.
What they ask for
- Led supply chain for a complex electromechanical product from initial builds through scaled production, and built a supply base from scratch or moved it to a new geography.
- Built and led a supply chain organization; negotiated with contract manufacturers and tier-one suppliers at executive level.
- Sourced across regions, including Asia and North America, and moved production between them; demonstrated BOM cost reduction from pilot to volume.
- Can read drawings and GD&T and has working knowledge of actuators, gearboxes, motors, PCBAs, BOMs, change control, should-cost, and MRP.
Nice to have
- Experience in robotics, electric vehicles, aerospace, consumer electronics, or medical devices.
- Engineering degree.
Tools
GD&T, BOMs, MRP, ERP, supplier portal
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