Director of Supply and Operations
- Full-time
Company Description
Magic Leap is an eclectic group of visionaries, rocket scientists, wizards, and gurus from the fields of film, robotics, visualization, software, computing, and user experience. We are growing quickly, and this is the time to get on board and play a role in shaping the way people will be interacting with the world tomorrow.
Job Description
This role is responsible for the manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, and internal operations for a high tech company developing a transformational mobile computing platform.
Responsibilities
- Develop a supply chain for an emerging technology from the ground up
- Identify, research, and qualify, supply chain partners for mechanical, electrical, and optical components and assemblies
- Direct external partners to build custom hardware components and subassemblies in accordance with Magic Leap specifications
- Oversee operations to deliver internally developed Magic Leap components at high volume, with exceptional quality, and world class operational performance
- Recruit, hire, and build a Supply Chain and Operations personnel
- Participate in the development of a quality management system to ISO and other worldwide standards as required
- Develop, implement, and track key supply chain and operations performance metrics such as inventory turns, DPHU, process capability, yield, on time delivery
- Negotiate with component, capital equipment, and contract manufacturers (both domestic and overseas) and delivering year of year cost reductions
- Deliver consumer products to market at scale with exceptional quality
- Partner with development engineering to ensure designs are developed with knowledge of internal and external suppliers process capability
- Implement a prototype supply chain that emulates the production line to ensure design and process related issues are identified, root caused, and resolved prior to production ramp
- Participate in the establishment of a service and customer support organization, and work closely with engineering on reliability and other failure mode issues
Qualifications
- Extensive experience working in a Supply Chain and Operations team focused on delivering a complex consumer electronics product to market at scale with exceptional quality
- Experience in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly ramp a complex consumer electronic/electro-optical products to high volumes (i.e. millions of units per year) is a must
- Proven track record for negotiating competitive pricing for components, assemblies, and finished goods
- Experience with supply chains that include mechanical, electrical, and optical components and assemblies; PCB and factory level test, calibration, and product delivery
- Experience in optics fabrication, test, and metrology is a strong plus
- Expertise in implementing and managing operation performance metrics such as inventory turns, on time delivery, DPHU, test time, Cp, CpK
- Proven track record of delivering cost reductions and performance improvements that led to improved margins and increased profitability.
- Familiar with Early Supplier Involvement at the early stages of product development
- Strong business acumen, analytical and decision making abilities
- Strong consultative and influencing skills. Excellent communication skills (oral, written), great listener/ presence and can interact comfortably with both senior leadership and junior associates
- Proven experience managing and influencing effectively in a matrix driven environment
- Must be willing to travel 25-35%
Education
- Bachelors, or Masters Degree, in Engineering or operations management
- MBA preferred
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to Equal Employment Opportunities guidelines.