Director Supply Chain and Hardware Operations
Sereact is a Stuttgart-based physical-AI robotics company whose Cortex software enables autonomous warehouse and manufacturing operations across robot platforms.
Funding history
About Sereact
Sereact GmbH develops embodied-AI software for industrial robotics. Its Cortex system provides vision-language-action intelligence for tasks including robotic picking, returns handling, sorting, and warehouse inspection; the company also offers products such as Sereact Lens and its operational data platform.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the path from released hardware designs to quality-assured units shipped to customers. You will establish outsourced manufacturing, supplier management, quality controls, planning, inventory, logistics, cost programs, and operating processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years in supply chain, manufacturing, or hardware operations
- Several years in a leadership role
- Experience scaling complex electromechanical products into production
- Experience building outsourced manufacturing, supplier quality, logistics, and inventory functions
- Supplier selection, negotiation, and quality-management experience
- Manufacturing quality, NPI, and industrialization experience
- Supply-and-demand planning and inventory-management experience
- Fluent English
- Willingness to travel to suppliers and customer sites
Responsibilities
- Move product assembly to contract manufacturers and EMS partners
- Transfer frozen designs into repeatable volume production
- Run a pilot gripper build outside the facility
- Select, negotiate with, and manage suppliers
- Build redundancy for critical components and suppliers
- Own incoming inspection, supplier quality, first-article inspection, PPM targets, and manufacturing RMA processes
- Build S&OP, forecasting, and buffer-stock practices
- Own shipping and import and export across the EU and US
- Own hardware unit cost and reduce COGS
- Establish supply-chain KPIs and review cadence
Benefits
- Equity
- Flexible PTO