Senior Mechanical Sourcing Manager – NPI & Ramp

ŌURA; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,550 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

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Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

ŌURA is seeking a Senior Sourcing Manager to lead strategic sourcing and supplier management for mechanical components across hardware programs. This role partners with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Legal to build sourcing strategies enabling high-volume production readiness.

This hybrid position requires 3 days per week in our San Francisco office and offers competitive pay, equity, and benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in consumer electronics or supply chain with mechanical sourcing.
• Experience sourcing mechanical components like CNC, stamping, molding.
• Ability to lead complex programs with tight timelines.
• Proven negotiation skills across cost, tooling, contracts.
• Experience supporting NPI builds through ramp to mass production.
• Strong cost modeling and data-driven supplier evaluation.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical sourcing for NPI and sustaining programs.
• Conduct supplier selection, RFx, and award recommendations.
• Negotiate pricing, tooling, terms, and lead times.
• Collaborate with Engineering on design requirements and DFM.
• Lead supplier onboarding, audits, and readiness reviews.
• Manage supplier performance via KPIs and QBRs/MBRs.
• Build should-cost models and benchmarking for negotiations.
• Develop continuity plans including dual sourcing and geographic risk.
• Support prototype builds, ramp, and mass production.
• Improve sourcing processes with scalable templates and governance.

Skills

Mechanical sourcing

Negotiation

Data-driven evaluation

Stakeholder management

DFM collaboration

Supplier onboarding

Cost modeling

Travel readiness

Job description

ŌURA is seeking a Senior Sourcing Manager to lead strategic sourcing and supplier management for mechanical components across hardware programs. This role partners with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Legal to build sourcing strategies enabling high-volume production readiness.

This hybrid position requires 3 days per week in our San Francisco office and offers competitive pay, equity, and benefits.