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Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
Foster CityCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Manufacturing
Posted
May 7, 2026
Salary
$245,000–$294,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Manager – CAPEX & Tooling Procurement

Job description

This role will own the commercial strategy, supplier partnerships, and team leadership across factory capital infrastructure, manufacturing equipment, and production tooling . The scope includes procurement for factory CAPEX, automation systems, assembly equipment, and direct tooling for vehicle sub-assemblies and components .

This leader will play a critical role in enabling Zoox’s manufacturing footprint and future production scale-up, ensuring world-class supplier partnerships, robust commercial governance, and scalable cost structures.

This is a highly cross-functional leadership role that will partner closely with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality & Reliability, Finance,…

Job responsibilities

  • Build and lead the CAPEX & Tooling Procurement organization, including hiring, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team of Strategic Sourcing Managers.
  • Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering leadership to inform factory design, production readiness, and industrialization roadmaps.
  • Establish scalable processes, procurement governance, and operating cadences tailored for a rapidly growing manufacturing organization.
  • Develop and execute the sourcing strategy for factory build-outs, production equipment, automation, and manufacturing infrastructure.
  • Oversee the sourcing and supplier strategy for all factory, production and sub-assembly tooling, including robots, stamping dies, casting tooling, molds, and assembly fixtures.
  • Develop long-term sourcing roadmaps that enable new production launches, capacity expansion, and localization efforts.

Job requirements

  • 10+ years of strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or commercial leadership experience. Ability to operate effectively across engineering, quality, operations, finance, and executive leadership
  • 5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading and developing sourcing teams
  • Significant experience leading CAPEX procurement and tooling sourcing within a manufacturing environment.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting the build-out or launch of a production factory, plant, or major manufacturing line.
  • Strong commercial acumen with expertise in complex contract negotiation and supplier governance. Experience managing large-scale supplier relationships and multi-million dollar capital programs
  • Experience supporting greenfield factory builds or major production expansion programs
  • Strong preference for experience in automotive, EV, autonomous systems, aerospace, industrial manufacturing, other complex hardware production environments
  • Experience building procurement functions, category strategies, and operating processes from the ground up
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