Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Lightspeed.
About the role
This is Helsing's first supply chain hire in the United States. You will set up how we buy — and then do the buying yourself. Expect to spend your first year as a player-coach: designing the supplier strategy, the sourcing playbook and the compliance posture in the morning, and placing purchase orders, chasing commit dates and clearing the shortage list in the afternoon. We are deliberately not hiring a pure strategist or a pure buyer. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Support NPI. Partner with Systems Engineering on BOMs, ECOs, alternates and end-of-life parts. Quote new designs early, source prototype material fast, and drive designs toward parts we can actually get at volume
- Manage Risk. Map geopolitical, allocation and lead-time exposure across the BOM. Maintain buffer and last-time-buy strategies for long-lead and sole-source items so a single shortage never stops a build
- Grow the Function. Document what you build, then hire and mentor the buyers and planners who come after you as U.S. volume scales
- 7–12 years in supply chain, procurement, strategic sourcing or planning within a hardware manufacturing environment (semiconductor, high-tech, advanced manufacturing, robotics, or aerospace/defense)
- You have personally owned POs, supplier commit dates and shortage resolution within the last few years — and you are eager to do it again without a team beneath you
- Demonstrated ownership of supplier selection, qualification and commercial negotiation, not just execution against someone else's sourcing decisions
More about this role
Helsing develops artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies. We are growing our US operations, cultivating an ambitio u s and committed team of mission-driven professionals to apply their skills to solve challenging problems.
This is Helsing's first supply chain hire in the United States. You will set up how we buy — and then do the buying yourself. Expect to spend your first year as a player-coach: designing the supplier strategy, the sourcing playbook and the compliance posture in the morning, and placing purchase orders, chasing commit dates and clearing the shortage list in the afternoon. We are deliberately not hiring a pure strategist or a pure buyer. The person who succeeds here can hold both altitudes: they know what "right" looks like for a defense supply chain — NDAA, ITAR/EAR, DFARS flow-downs, counterfeit-part avoidance — and they are equally comfortable on the phone with a distributor at 7pm to pull a lead time in by three weeks. You will work daily with Production, Systems Engineering and our Head of Logistics, and you will be the single point of accountability for whether material is where it needs to be. There is no team...
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