Global Supply Manager

Nimble Nimble•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We’re training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain. We’ve raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue. We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world’s best engineers and operators. If you are obsessed with your craft, enjoy a high-intensity and fast moving high impact environment, are super high agency in getting hard things done and want to be part of building the world’s most legendary robotics company at the most pivotal moment in history, we want to work with you. We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. We will accomplish this by training robot AGI to invent and build the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by generalist superhumanoids. Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles). Let’s be legendary. Why Join Nimble? At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce. Nimble's Core Values: Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles. Be legendary - Be the very best and do work that inspires. Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission. Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in sourcing or procurement for high volume manufacturing
Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent experience
Solid category knowledge across mechanical, electrical (PCB/PCBA), and/or electro-mechanical components and assemblies
Strong negotiation and contract management skills
Proven experience leading cross-functional work-streams with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and NPI teams to drive alignment and execute sourcing strategies
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, potentially on short notice

Nice To Haves

Extensive supply chain or manufacturing operations experience with one or multiple of the following: electronics components, injection molding, stamping, sheet metal fabrication, casting, CNC machining, printed circuit board fabrication, assembly
Prior experience sourcing, evaluating and onboarding new suppliers in new regions
Strong data analysis and visualization skills

Responsibilities

Define and own category strategies for key components and assemblies with a focus on scaling production.
Achieve or exceed cost targets through data-driven should-cost modeling, market and commodity analysis, and strategic negotiations.
Negotiate commercial agreements, including piece price, tooling/NRE, and key contractual terms.
Manage supply chain risk through assessment of capacity, geopolitics, logistics, and supplier technological capability.
Actively partner with the Hardware Engineering team to drive design direction aimed at meeting functionality objectives while reducing landed costs.
Drive supplier readiness across prototype, pilot, and mass production builds to ensure smooth scale-up and launch execution.
Develop and execute planning, logistics and warehousing strategy to optimize costs and minimize supply risk.
Concisely summarize and escalate key supply, cost, and/or quality issues with partner teams and lead development and implementation of corrective action plans.