Head of Supply Chain

We believe robots should be the next chapter in making physical labor safer and more affordable. But most American factories and warehouses still don’t have a single robot. Tutor Intelligence is changing that.

We build robots that go straight into real factories and warehouses, to do real work, with real impact. Our robots move boxes, pallets and bulk goods, and pick and pack with human-like dexterity, for family-owned manufacturers and some of the largest brands in the world. Every robot learns on the job, and each one we deploy makes the next one more capable, more affordable and faster to put to work.

Founded at MIT and headquartered in Watertown, MA, we do it all in-house: the robotics hardware, the machine learning, and the field deployment and service.

You are our first Head of Supply Chain, reporting to the CTO. Your mandate: the supply base never limits how fast we build and deploy robots.

You’ll build the function from the ground up (the team, the supplier base, the planning engine and the tools) and run it on data and engineering judgment, not spreadsheets. You’ll build strong relationships and partnerships with our suppliers so they grow as we grow, sit at the table from first CAD, and drive cost down initatives.

Sourcing and the Asia supply base

Set commodity strategy across mechanical, electrical and electronic components

Eliminate single sources on critical components. Qualify second sources in Asia and onshore where it makes sense

Develop suppliers into partners that add capacity and grow with us

Select and manage contract manufacturers

Negotiate contracts, pricing and capacity, and drive BOM cost down every quarter

Turn the build plan into a supply plan: MRP, long-lead buys, safety stock and clear-to-build

Own supply chain’s role in the ECO process: cost, lead-time and inventory impact, cut-ins and supplier notifications

Own the supply chain systems and decide what we build, buy or automate next

Inbound freight from Asia and outbound shipping to customers in the US and Canada

Customs, tariffs, landed cost and hazmat compliance

Inside NPI, at the table from first CAD, not handed a frozen BOM

No silos with Engineering, Manufacturing or Quality

Build your own tools to track supplier risk, lead time and cost in real time

You’ll build these with your team and run the supply chain on them.

1. Line-down prevention: the line never stops for a part

One live view from deployment schedule to dock: build plan, BOM, inventory, open POs and supplier capacity

Early warning on shortages, with an owner and recovery plan

Supplier health scoring and automatic expedite, buffer and second-source triggers

2. Cost-down engine: cost goes down every quarter by design

Should-cost models and true landed cost, so we negotiate from facts

A savings pipeline tracked from idea to realized savings

Cost and sourcing risk fed back into design early

What success looks like in year one

90 days: Supply base mapped by commodity, with risk, lead time and capacity for every critical part. Team hired or in flight

6 months: Second sources shipping for our highest-risk components. Supply base ready for our second product line

12 months: No supplier limits a build at target rate. BOM cost on a committed downward path. Supply plan, scorecards and cost tracked live

You’ll inherit a small, hands-on group and build the rest: supplier development and engineering in the US and China, contract manufacturing, electronics sourcing, purchasing, planning and logistics.

We run a lean core and scale with contractors. You decide the shape.

You’ve taken a hardware supply chain from startup to volume production, ideally in robotics or complex electromechanical systems

You know electromechanical commodities, from fabricated and cast parts to electronics, motion and power

You’ve developed suppliers in Asia in person and can tell one that can scale from one that can’t

You’ve managed contract manufacturers and taken real cost out through negotiation and design changes

You’ve led NPI sourcing from early design through ramp

You build and lead teams, and still get your hands dirty