Production Lead

Role: Production Lead

Salary: $100,000 - 130,000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Manufactured is a venture backed inventory platform. We are building the first inventory exchange for SMBs creating, making, and selling physical products around the world. We serve customers doing $1M - $100M in annual revenues in Fashion, Accessories, Healthcare, Construction Materials, CPG, Food, Electronics, Home Goods, Industrials, and Commodities.

With over 800+ vendors across 25 countries (and growing), we make the inventory cycle a breeze by handling everything from vendor discovery and negotiation to shipping, warehouse coordination, quality control, PO advances, through to collections. With over $150 million in volume powered by Manufactured since we launched in 2019, we deliver a compelling inventory partnership for fast growing SMBs.

We are a post-Product Market Fit, Series A startup that is growing 850% Year on Year. There is tremendous opportunity in our ~45 person team to take ownership, make an impact, and build an extremely rewarding, accomplished career.

We Don’t Care About

• Where you went to college
• What you studied
• If you’ve worked at blue chip companies
  
  

We Do Care About

• What you’ve done
• What you can do
• How you’ll do it
  
  

This Looks Like

• Making success a priority: We value ownership, initiative, and tenacity
• Having a point of view: We hire smart people and want to hear opinions. We’re low ego, and we welcome feedback and new ideas informed by data and intuition
• Being a good person and teammate: We all contribute to a positive, inclusive workplace. Direct communication, kindness, and integrity are non-negotiables
  
  

You’ll be trusted and challenged to do your best work in a fast moving, high performing environment. If this sounds like you, please read on!

We are seeking an experienced, collaborative professional to become our Channel Production Lead. The right candidate has experience with both sourcing and managing production in a small to medium sized business, but also is aware of how large organizations structure process. He or she is entrepreneurial and passionate about their career, ready to join a company that is growing 4x annually, but also able to focus on tactical daily execution in order to get a job done in line with procedures, and on a deadline.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years manufacturing
• You’ve successfully managed production and delivery of multiple products
• You are well networked with vendors and understand how business operates internationally
• You have a proven track record of working with customers, and have multiple examples of success working with different partners
• You operate with the highest ethical standards. You do not take kickbacks from partners. Manufactured has a zero tolerance for unethical business practices and we will prosecute for any unethical or illegal behavior
• Startup experience is nice to have
  
  

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with clients and partners in design, merchandising, and sourcing, ensuring the production needs are properly represented in the successful development of a product
• Collaborate with international teams to validate seasonal lead times and key milestone dates with all suppliers
• Identify key opportunities to optimize fulfillment rates by improving visibility through the production lifecycle and understanding of factory capabilities and logistics lead times
• Understand the structural and functional requirements of direct product categories, including testing, and ensure requirements are clearly communicated to the supplier and closely monitored during the final approval process
• Facilitate and monitor factory quality control process and documentation, and coordinate 3rd party inspections as needed
• Collaborate with department counterparts to help define, align, and build standard operating procedures by function within the department for all teams and regions to follow
• Build and operate Compliance Manuals, Testing Manuals, Production Manuals, Logistics Manuals, set up SOPs, and have Vendors adhere to Customer-specific guidelines.
  
  

Working At Manufactured

We’re a remote first company, based in Los Angeles. Our team is around forty-five people, and growing quickly.

Manufactured is a small, fast growing startup. Which means we deal with ambiguity and require a sense of ownership from all our team members. This is reflected in our core values.

Our Core Values Are

Urgency: Always act like an owner, seek help in case of delays beyond 48 hours, move quickly when you have enough information (usually 70-75%), know when to dive in if there’s a crisis, and hold true to the best possible timelines without compromising on quality, value or process.

Authenticity: Be Authentic, be real, be respectful both, in front of and behind a person’s back. If you are frustrated, you’re frustrated. If you’re stuck, you’re stuck. If you’re worried, you’re worried. Let's support each other in resolving these issues. Be upfront and respectful in your conversation. We are a multi cultural, distributed, global team. Respectful authenticity in communication is critical.

Contextual Ownership: Our business is as much about people and relationships as it is about technology and process. We take time to build relationships and understand the needs of our internal and external partners. Context and empathy helps us understand the “why”. We set goals and drive outcomes based on context and realities, rather than tasks and process alone.

Effectiveness: Did it work? Did it solve the problem? Was it a short term hack? or a long term process solution that benefits everyone? Was it something we can use to grow / move forward or was it a defensive solution. Did we meet our stakeholders’ expectations, did we exceed them? Did our stakeholders all win? Are you using your time correctly? Are you helping your team members use their time well? Are you contributing to the growth of the company?

Critical path thinking: "What is the shortest risk-mitigated route to the Best Potential Outcome?"

About

Our CEO and Founder, Pranay Srinivasan, writes often on LinkedIn about our culture and operating principles. We recommend these articles in particular:

Our core values: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6993599543976099840/

Our operating framework: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pranaysrinivasan_08312022-a-big-part-of-our-work-at-manufactured-activity-6970875309470494720--bfv/