Product Realization Leader

We are looking for a highly motivated operations leader who can bring transformational leadership capability and focus to our product realization activities. This high visibility function will focus on developing capabilities to create amazing, unique hardware products – as well as the high performance operations teams needed to deliver them to the world. This role will lead the operations team working in parallel with the development team to turn ideas into products. This position will also play a key role in developing, influencing and aligning our longer-term manufacturing, sourcing, and technology strategies across the operations and product development organizations.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead a cross-functional team within the manufacturing operations team, including sourcing, process engineering, tooling/CMF (process) engineering, quality, and factory management, through the process of realizing physical products from exploration to mass production. This is a role of influential leadership, not direct reporting. If you're a senior manufacturing leader that loves getting products shipped, then this is the job for you!

• Accountable for turning the conceptual design into a real product at scale, at the right cost, with the right quality, on time.
• Communicate weekly on the state of the program, program issues, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Drive collaboration between engineering, product management, Operations and our manufacturing partners.
• Tightly integrate the work between operations and product development and keep the teams aligned at all times.
• Lead a cross-functional team, including sourcing, MFG engineering, quality, and contract manufacturing through the process of realizing physical products from design into mass production.
• Work closely with the MFG eng team to plan and drive all program builds at the sub and final assembly level, develop and manage the operations budget, and communicate status updates to the rest of the organization.
• Motivate, energize, and lead the operations team with optimism while instilling a quality mindset around every detail of every part of the product.
• Identifying gaps in organizational capability and driving systemic change to improve everything that we do
• Manage Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and all the operations retrospectives between CM and HW for NPI products
• Ensure deliverables to our CM partners are met on time and production issues are resolved.
• Develop and manage the manufacturing relationships schedule for all the NPI product and continuous engineering program execution at the factory level.
• Drive quality. You'll establish process controls to ensure we hit our quality and production KPIs.
• Develop and manage the overall operations schedule for product delivery
• Develop and manage the operations budget for NPI products
• Manage the product COGM and work cross-functionally on tradeoffs

Qualifications:

• Strong engineering aptitude and analytical skills, and experience with root cause analysis and technical problem solving tools.
• 5+ years experience leading a development and/or manufacturing team
• Broad leadership experience bringing complex products to high-volume manufacturing
• Technical background with progressive leadership roles in manufacturing operations, new product introduction/development, and/or strategic sourcing is highly desired.
• Understand design and manufacturing processes of hardware accessories and soft goods.
• Strong collaboration skills - ability to effectively influence others in multiple groups and collaborate cross-functionally to achieve specific goals.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or business is desired.
• Must be willing to travel to China, South East Asia, within the US and Mexico up to 50% of the time.
• Familiarity with google collaboration tools.

Preferred Experience:

• Have in- depth knowledge and experience in supply chain management.
• Have experience leading supply chain systems and tools development.
• Experience in Lean product and process development.
• Experience working in JDM and/or ODM model.
• Experience using tools such as DFMEA, PFMEA

Additional Information
Willow takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the successful candidate's location, job-related skills, experience, and qualifications. We regularly review and update our pay ranges and therefore, these ranges may be modified in the future.

Bay Area, Seattle Area : $192,000 - $250,000

Benefits
We offer our full-time employees comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental & vision plans, and other health and wellness plans), 401k plan, flexible time off, stock options, extended parental leave, as well as an annual performance bonus program (based on individual performance and company performance). Take a look at our Careers site to learn more about our benefits.