Senior Vice President

Fictiv•Austin, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

This organization is a new, U.S.-incorporated manufacturing platform built to serve frontier-technology industries — humanoid robotics, aerospace, agricultural technology, and healthcare — where reshoring, national security priorities, and speed-to-production are reshaping how and where hardware gets built. Backed by MISUMI Group, a global leader in manufacturing solutions and precision components, this venture combines precision machining, final assembly/test/packaging (FATP), supply chain orchestration, and engineering services into a single U.S.-based platform. Our founding customers include leading humanoid robotics companies, and is being built from day one to grow with a broader roster of frontier-technology manufacturers as capacity comes online. The Opportunity Our organization is standing up its first physical footprint in Austin, Texas: an initial facility in 2026, followed by a purpose-built campus opening in 2027. Over the following three years, the operation is expected to scale from a single-customer pilot into a multi-customer production platform, with the workforce growing from a founding team into a 200-plus-person operation as volume ramps toward several thousand units a year at full scale. We are hiring the founding SVP to lead this build from the ground up — the first executive on the ground in Austin, responsible for turning an approved capital program into a running, profitable manufacturing operation. Career path: This role is expected to be promoted to President & CEO of the new organization in 2027, as the operation transitions from initial, single-customer production into multi-customer scale-up — contingent on hitting the facility, customer, and team-building milestones below.

Requirements

15+ years in manufacturing operations leadership, with direct P&L ownership of a plant, business unit, or manufacturing company.
A track record of standing up new manufacturing facilities from the ground up — greenfield or brownfield — including commissioning, hiring ramp, and production qualification.
Deep fluency in precision manufacturing: CNC machining, final assembly/test/packaging (FATP), new product introduction (NPI), and design-for-manufacturability (DFM).
Familiarity with U.S. export-control and government-contracting frameworks (ITAR, CMMC) is a strong plus; willingness to build and operate within those frameworks is required.
Comfortable operating with board-level visibility and reporting, including to an international (Japan-based) parent company.
A builder's mindset — energized by a founding role with real ambiguity, not just running an already-established operation.
Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Nice To Haves

Experience serving demanding, fast-iterating hardware customers — robotics, aerospace, defense, or similarly exacting sectors — strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead commissioning of the initial Austin facility and the transition into the larger campus that follows, hitting the milestones tied to the capital plan.
Own the relationship with our founding customer and its production ramp, then lead qualification and onboarding of additional frontier-technology customers as capacity comes online.
Build out precision machining, FATP, and quality systems (FAIR, SPC, DFM) to the standard demanded by frontier-technology customers.
Execute a multi-year staffing ramp from a founding team to a 200+-person workforce, combining direct hiring, a local apprenticeship/technical-college pipeline, and flexible nearshore capacity for peak demand.
Partner with legal and security leadership to stand up the governance, security, and workplace controls required for U.S. government-adjacent manufacturing work, including export-control registration and cybersecurity certification requirements.
Own the new organization's operating P&L and report regularly to the company Board of Directors and MISUMI's Americas Business Hub leadership on cost, schedule, and quality performance.
Build the leadership bench underneath you, recruiting manufacturing and engineering leadership from Austin's robotics and advanced-manufacturing corridor.