What You\'ll DoPrimary Responsibilities:• Support the development and execution of SimpliSafe\'s hardware sourcing strategy, ensuring alignment with the company\'s product roadmap, supply chain objectives, and long-term manufacturing strategy.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with Contract Manufacturing (CM) and Joint Development Manufacturing (JDM) partners, ensuring performance targets for cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness are met.
• Monitor supplier performance using established metrics and scorecards, drive corrective actions, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Quality, Operations, and Manufacturing teams to resolve supplier-related issues and support product lifecycle management activities.
• Support new product introductions (NPI) by coordinating with manufacturing partners and internal stakeholders to ensure products launch on schedule, meet quality expectations, and achieve cost targets.
• Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities for existing products through supplier negotiations, process improvements, and value engineering initiatives.
• Lead commercial negotiations, including product pricing, tooling investments, non-recurring engineering (NRE) expenses, and other manufacturing-related costs.
• Support supplier selection, qualification, and RFx activities in partnership with SimpliSafe\'s Asia sourcing and operations teams.
• Work with the Legal team to support contract review, compliance, and negotiation with suppliers
• Monitor supplier capacity, material availability, and operational risks, escalating issues and supporting mitigation plans to ensure supply continuity.
What You\'ll BringDesired Skills and Experience:• 3+ years in managing outsourced manufacturing and development of consumer electronics
• Extensive project management and partner relationship management experience
• Enjoy working in a highly collaborative environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical with a high degree of attention to detail
• Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to build relationships
• Experience in contracts and contract negotiations, and contract strategy development and execution
• Demonstrated experience managing by influence, both with internal and external partners
• Experience improving supply chain and supplier performance, including the use of cost models and performance metrics in the contract manufacturing industry
• Experience working with Asian manufacturers and traveling to manufacturing sites. Ability to travel internationally 15%
• Bachelor\'s Degree in ME, EE, IE, Business, or Supply Chain Management
Nice-to-haves:• Master\'s degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial Engineering or MBA
• Language skills with the ability to speak/read Mandarin/Chinese
• Strong understanding of geo-political and global trade influences within Asia
What Values You\'ll Share- Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
- Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
- No Ego - Maintaining a \"no job too small\" attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style.
- One Team - Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
- Lift As We Climb - Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed.
- Lean & Nimble - Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.
What We Offer- A mission- and values-driven culture and a safe, inclusive environment where you can build, grow and thrive
- A comprehensive total rewards package that supports your wellness and provides security for SimpliSafers and their families (For more information on our total rewards please click here)
- Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home.
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that bring people together, give opportunities to network, mentor and develop, and advocate for change.
The target annual base pay range for this role is $81,000 to $118,000
This target annual base pay range represents our good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this role. We use a market-based compensation approach to set our target annual base pay ranges and make adjustments annually. We carefully tailor individual compensation packages, including base pay, taking into consideration employees\' job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and other relevant business factors.
Beyond base pay, we offer a Total Rewards package that may include participation in our annual bonus program, equity, and other forms of compensation, in addition to a full range of medical, retirement, and lifestyle benefits. More details can be found here.
We\'re committed to fair and equitable pay practices, as well as pay transparency. We regularly review our programs to ensure they remain competitive and aligned with our values.
