Head of Supply Chain
Head of Supply Chain
Location: San Francisco, CA | Hybrid / Onsite
Industry: AI Hardware / Consumer Electronics / DTC eCommerce
Compensation: $160,000-$180,000 + Equity
About the Opportunity
We are partnering with a hyper-growth, venture-backed AI hardware company that is looking to hire its Head of Supply Chain.
This will be the first senior supply chain hire and an opportunity to build the end-to-end supply chain function from the ground up. The company is scaling rapidly across DTC/eCommerce, Amazon, retail, and international channels and needs someone who can create the strategy while remaining close to day-to-day execution.
This is not a role for someone looking to inherit a mature supply chain organization. The right person will be comfortable being both strategic and extremely hands-on, working directly with founders and senior leadership to build the processes, systems, partnerships, and team required for the company's next phase of growth.
What You'll Own
- Build and lead the company's end-to-end supply chain strategy across demand planning, supply planning, inventory, logistics, fulfillment, and 3PL operations.
- Own demand forecasting across products, SKUs, and sales channels.
- Develop inventory strategy, including safety stock, reorder points, days of coverage, inventory turns, and replenishment policies.
- Translate demand forecasts into purchase-order and supply recommendations while balancing availability, working capital, lead times, and inventory risk.
- Manage inventory allocation across DTC, Amazon, retail, and international channels.
- Own relationships and performance management across 3PLs, warehouses, freight providers, and fulfillment partners.
- Develop strategies around inbound freight, last-mile delivery, inventory placement, fulfillment speed, and cost per order.
- Partner with manufacturing and suppliers to improve capacity planning, production timing, lead-time management, and supply continuity.
- Build scalable planning processes and operating cadences, including S&OP, forecasting reviews, inventory-risk reviews, and supplier/3PL performance management.
- Develop the systems, KPIs, dashboards, and analytics required to provide leadership with accurate supply chain visibility.
- Identify and onboard new 3PL, logistics, returns, freight, and supply chain partners as the business expands.
- Eventually build and develop the broader supply chain organization as the company scales.
What They're Looking For
- Experience owning significant portions of the end-to-end supply chain for a physical-product business.
- Strong preference for experience in consumer hardware, consumer electronics, DTC/eCommerce, connected devices, or another high-growth consumer product environment.
- Strong background in demand forecasting and supply planning.
- Experience managing inventory strategy, replenishment, safety stock, reorder points, lead times, and working capital.
- Direct experience with 3PLs, warehouses, freight, logistics, and customer fulfillment.
- Experience working with international manufacturers and/or suppliers.
- Strong analytical capabilities with Excel / Google Sheets and supply chain systems.
- Comfortable working with imperfect data and building systems and processes where none currently exist.
- Commercially minded and able to communicate complex supply chain decisions clearly to founders and senior leadership.
- Able to move seamlessly between strategy and execution.
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