Board Member - Industrial Technology & Supply Chain : Advisory Board

Graphora; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Graphora seeks senior advisory professionals to guide founders and portfolio companies across logistics, advanced hardware and industrial-tech sectors. This role focuses on identifying opportunities, shaping market strategies and forging connections with customers, partners and investors.

You’ll work primarily remotely, with occasional local meetings as needed. You will help translate industry insights into practical guidance, support strategic decisions and contribute to growth through your

Qualifications

• Significant experience in freight and logistics, semiconductors, advanced materials, AI computing hardware, defense technology or industrial robotics.
• A track record as an executive, founder, senior technical or commercial leader, operator, advisor or investor.
• Understanding of customer buying decisions, technology commercialization or manufacturing and supply-chain partnerships.
• Strong professional relationships with customers, technical or operating outcomes.
• Depth in one industrial specialty is acceptable; broad coverage is not required.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic guidance on Graphora’s growth, market development and opportunities within your specialty.
• Share industry insight and help evaluate companies, markets, technologies and opportunities.
• Support founders and leaders with advice on market entry, product positioning, customer needs and execution.
• Identify and introduce relevant buyers, partners and capital relationships through Graphora’s process.
• Participate in advisory discussions, founder conversations and regional initiatives as agreed.

Skills

Logistics & freight

Semiconductors

Advanced materials

AI computing hardware

Industrial robotics

Job description

Graphora is an AI-native private-capital platform connecting founders and emerging companies with investors, strategic customers, experienced operators and advisors. We help companies access not only capital, but also the expertise, relationships, customer insight and operating support needed to grow.

Our ecosystem brings together private-market opportunities, syndicated and fund programs, company intelligence, strategic relationships, and advisory and operating opportunities. Advisors contribute their professional judgment and networks to help Graphora and the companies in its ecosystem make better-informed decisions and build meaningful partnerships.

About the role

We are seeking supply-chain executives, semiconductor and advanced-hardware leaders, and specialists in materials, AI computing and defense or industrial robotics. This specialty addresses the distinct commercial and operating needs of businesses whose growth depends on physical systems, logistics networks or advanced technology. Advisors connect founders with relevant customers, manufacturing and technical partners, and sector-aligned strategic relationships.

This is a distinct specialty because industrial customers and advanced-hardware companies need more than general software advice. Your experience should help identify the right buyers and partners, explain industry requirements and move a relevant commercial conversation forward.

Responsibilities

Strategy, company evaluation & founder support

• Provide strategic guidance on Graphora’s growth, market development and the opportunities within your specialty.
• Share industry insight and help evaluate companies, markets, emerging technologies and commercial opportunities.
• Support founders and company leaders with practical advice on market entry, product positioning, customer needs and execution.
• Identify and introduce relevant customer decision-makers, commercial partners, industry experts and sector-aligned capital relationships through Graphora’s agreed process.
• Participate in selected advisory discussions, founder conversations, events and regional initiatives appropriate to your expertise and agreed commitment.

Your specialty

• Advise on industrial customer requirements, commercialization, procurement and partnership strategy.
• Introduce suitable shippers, carriers, freight operators and supply-chain leaders for logistics-related opportunities.
• Help identify semiconductor, advanced-materials and manufacturing partners where relevant to the technology.
• Connect AI-computing and advanced-hardware businesses with infrastructure buyers, computing partners and commercialization expertise.
• Contribute appropriate defense-procurement, robotics and industrial operating relationships within an agreed scope.
• Help founders prepare for customer and technical-partner discussions and understand practical adoption requirements.
• Identify relevant industry investors and strategic corporate partners through Graphora’s agreed process, coordinating with the enterprise and infrastructure specialties where useful.

Relationships you can bring

Logistics and supply chain

Shippers, carriers, freight operators, supply-chain executives and organizations responsible for industrial movement and distribution.

Advanced technology

Semiconductor manufacturers, materials specialists, AI-infrastructure buyers, computing partners and advanced-hardware customers.

Industrial and defense systems

Industrial operators, robotics partners, appropriate procurement professionals and sector-focused corporate or investment teams.

Preferred experience

• Significant experience in at least one of freight and logistics, semiconductors, advanced materials, AI computing hardware, defense technology or industrial robotics.
• A record of contribution as an executive, founder, senior technical or commercial leader, operator, advisor or investor.
• Practical understanding of customer buying decisions, technology commercialization or manufacturing and supply-chain partnerships.
• Relevant professional relationships and examples of customer, technical or operating outcomes.
• Depth in one industrial specialty is sufficient; applicants are not expected to cover every area in this track.

Your regional contribution

This application focuses on the Scottsdale, AZ professional ecosystem. Contribute local market knowledge, help identify relevant founders, customers, operating leaders and partners, and support relationships that can benefit companies nationally.

Meaningful professional experience or relationships in this market are valuable. You can indicate openness to other cities without submitting a separate application to every market.

Commitment & compensation

Advisory engagements start at 2–4 hours per month and may increase to 40 hours per month for advisory and board engagements, depending on the agreed scope. Work is primarily remote, with any local meetings or hybrid participation agreed separately. The city identifies the professional market you can support; it does not imply a Graphora office or a fixed in-person schedule.

Role-specific compensation

Compensation varies by role and engagement. Venture scouting, capital formation support, portfolio-company advisory, board and operational engagements have different arrangements. Depending on the separately agreed engagement, compensation may include cash, carried-interest or equity participation; no universal hourly rate, award or participation amount is promised by this listing. Scope, compensation, any vesting and other terms are agreed in writing before the engagement begins.

Other engagement types

Separate Operating Partner engagements with certain portfolio companies may require 10–40 hours per week. Venture scouting, capital formation support, company advisory, board and operating opportunities are separately scoped. Applying here is for the named advisory specialty and does not appoint you to a company board or an operating position.

Work alongside founders, investors, customers and experienced operating leaders to help promising businesses access the relationships and expertise they need. This is an opportunity to contribute to an AI-native private-capital ecosystem, share your experience with emerging companies and build relevant professional relationships.

Graphora welcomes qualified applicants from all backgrounds.