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Trackonomy · Onsite · San Jose

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At Trackonomy, our employee value proposition champions your growth through varied responsibilities and a commitment to innovation. Join us to evolve professionally in a company that reshapes both industries and individuals.

Connection & Community: You're essential to Trackonomy's mission, and every team member is regarded as a founder.  Collectively, our goal is to make a lasting impact on the world, making every endeavor at Trackonomy a meaningful journey.

Growth & Development: Dive into diverse roles and learn from our seasoned leaders. Your potential and passion define your trajectory here. We value innovation and offer unparalleled opportunities, making your career journey transformative. At Trackonomy, your growth is multifaceted. Collaborate and learn directly from senior leaders across various departments. Here, your potential—fueled by capability, passion, and results—determines the scope of your role.  At Trackonomy, merit and opportunity outweigh mere experience. It's a level playing field, offering unique opportunities not found elsewhere.

Impact: Trackonomy is dedicated to impactful tech solutions that better our world. From fire prevention to enhanced security, our innovations don't just change industries; they save lives. Join us to be part of meaningful change.

 

About Trackonomy 

At Trackonomy, we are pioneering a transformative network of interconnected objects. Our goal is to bring inanimate objects to life, giving them the ability to converse, think, and interact in real-time. Envision a world where our devices seamlessly integrate with every physical entity, facilitating a global conversation among them. Our overarching mission is to craft the operating system for the connected world, one object, and sensor at a time.  Our customers are major players in various verticals such as logistics, industrial, utilities, healthcare, and government. They use our solutions for a wide range of applications like predictive maintenance, workflow optimization, asset protection, safety, security, and environmental monitoring. We are a unicorn, funded by top investors like Kleiner Perkins and 8VC.

Our executive leadership team has experience working together for over two decades, having previously held key roles in the C-suites of renowned companies such as Flextronics, Heptagon, GT-Nexus, and Digital Motors Corporation. Together, we have engineered a revolutionary technology that is yielding extraordinary results. 

Are you ready to be a part of the next chapter in Silicon Valley's hyper-growth IoT success story?

Technical Sourcing Manager - NPI

Onsite – San Jose, CA

We are seeking a Technical Sourcing Manager to lead strategic procurement in a New Product Introduction (NPI) environment. This role requires close collaboration with business units, engineering, production, finance, and legal teams, as well as third parties such as contract manufacturers and suppliers. The position demands strong quantitative and analytical skills, critical thinking, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.

The Technical Sourcing Manager sits at the interface between our engineering teams and the industries that supply our core technologies. In this role, you will develop and execute sourcing strategies and recommend product and material innovations based on evolving technologies and market availability. The position requires an interest in market dynamics, negotiation and pricing, manufacturing processes, and risk mitigation, including short-term spot buys. This role is part of the supply chain management team that drives centralized capacity planning for components used across our products and supports long-term strategic deals.

Business Objectives

  • Support NPI builds and production ramps by ensuring timely, reliable, and cost-effective material availability.
  • Reduce supply and lifecycle risk by identifying alternates, monitoring market changes, and addressing constraints early.
  • Improve total cost through BOM analysis, cost-driver visibility, and disciplined commercial negotiations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Support business units and engineering teams in defining requirements and providing supply and technology solutions that meet product development and production ramp needs.
  • Analyze BOMs, identify cost drivers, benchmark component pricing, and implement procurement strategies to enable timely and cost-effective acquisition of materials and services.
  • Collaborate across the organization to ensure business objectives are met, including synthesizing and communicating findings to senior leaders and surfacing potential supply issues that may impact product strategy.
  • Optimize supply chain performance through effective sourcing strategies and continuous improvement of cost, service, and performance KPIs.
  • Develop an in-depth understanding of value-added manufacturing processes, costs, and market intelligence, and apply this knowledge to influence future product roadmaps and sourcing decisions.
  • Provide program management support and contribute to the development of processes, templates, escalation procedures, and reporting.
  • Partner with internal manufacturing organizations to ensure alignment with external Original Design Manufacturers (ODM) / Contract Manufacturers (CM) on supply, build plans, and readiness.
  • Lead and support improvement initiatives across sourcing and supply chain operations and ODM/CMs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering; other engineering degrees considered with demonstrated deep understanding of electronic components.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in technical sourcing, procurement, or supply chain in an electronics or hardware manufacturing environment, preferably with NPI exposure.
  • Strong understanding of electronic components, BOM structures, PCBA/PCB manufacturing, component lifecycle, alternates, cost drivers, quality risks, and supplier technologies.
  • Demonstrated tenacity, passion, and skill in negotiations and supplier management.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills; able to make sound decisions with incomplete information.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and influence cross-functional relationships.
  • Experience solving complex supply chain issues and driving actions to closure.
  • Direct purchasing experience for electronic components, PCB, and PCBA, and proficiency with planning and inventory parameters (e.g., MOQ, safety stock, CTB).
  • Experience in one or more of the following is a plus: consumer electronics, home appliances, IoT devices, power supplies, motors, PCBAs, ODM/CM


Trackonomy Systems is proud to ensure equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, medical condition, genetic information, marital or registered domestic partnership status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. 

We strive to provide a stellar experience throughout the application process and ensure all applicants will be given proper consideration based solely on merit and Trackonomy’s business needs.

Trackonomy Systems is dedicated to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability while interviewing, please contact hr@trackonomysystems.com.

The salary range for this role is $120,000 to $180,000, plus bonuses and Pre-IPO equity. It is uncommon for anyone to be hired at or near the top range for their role, and final compensation is based on the facts and circumstances of the case. The compensation range is broad because it reflects many factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience, and training directly relevant to the role, business and company needs, cultural fit, level, and location. 

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How this Procurement salary compares

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About Trackonomy

Join the Trackonomy Team!

Want to be part of the next hyper growth story out of Silicon Valley? Our seasoned leadership team has successfully grown the company 100x in four years while securing top VC investors like Kleiner Perkins and 8VC. We have paying customers and are rapidly scaling in the United States and Internationally. Are you looking for a high-energy, fast-paced, team-oriented environment that challenges your talents daily with cutting edge technologies that solves global problems across multiple markets? Join the Trackonomy Team, we offer opportunities to talented professionals covering all engineering disciplines while creating unique opportunities for career growth.

About Trackonomy

Trackonomy aims to make people and organizations more productive through our next generation operating system for the connected world. Our unique diversity of technologies allows us to create building blocks and vertically integrated, configurable platforms that enable our customers to drive digital transformation throughout their organizations. We have a successful track record of leading initiatives at multibillion-dollar businesses in the Logistics, Industrial, Healthcare, Homeland Security spaces and more. Despite being in strategic stealth mode, our solutions have been on ABC, CNBC, CNN, FOX and featured during US senate hearings. In 2019 we joined AirBnB, Google, Palantir and Twitter as a recipient of the prestigious World Economic Forum Pioneer Award! We have raised over $250 million from top investors including Kleiner Perkins and 8VC. Trackonomy is headquartered in San Jose, California in the heart of Silicon Valley.

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