Senior Vice President

ProducePay; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

MISUMI Americas is standing up its first U.S. manufacturing platform in Austin for frontier-technology customers, including humanoid robotics and aerospace.

We seek a founding Senior Vice President to lead facility stand-up, scale-up, and governance, reporting to MISUMI’s Americas leadership. The SVP will own P&L, drive a multi-year workforce ramp to 200+ staff, ensure export-control compliance (ITAR/CMMC), and build a high-performance culture with a founder’s mindset.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in manufacturing operations leadership with direct P&L ownership.
• Proven ability to stand up new manufacturing facilities (greenfield or brownfield).
• Deep fluency in precision manufacturing: CNC machining, FATP, NPI, and DFM.
• Experience serving demanding hardware customers — robotics, aerospace, defense, or similar sectors.
• Familiarity with U.S. export-control and government-contracting frameworks (ITAR, CMMC).
• Comfortable reporting to a board and to an international parent company.
• Builder's mindset with ambiguity and a hands-on founding role.

Responsibilities

• Lead commissioning of Austin facility and transition to a larger campus.
• Own the founding customer relationship and ramp production while adding capacity.
• Build out precision machining, FATP, and quality systems (FAIR, SPC, DFM).
• Execute a multi-year staffing ramp to 200+ personnel, with local partnerships.
• Establish governance, security, and workplace controls for government-adjacent work.
• Own the new organization's operating P&L and report to the Board and leadership.
• Recruit senior manufacturing and engineering leaders to build the team.

Skills

P&L ownership

Facility start-up

Greenfield start-up

CNC machining

DFM/NPI

ITAR compliance

Board reporting

Hardware customers

Leadership

Job description

About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

Senior Vice President (SVP)

Austin, Texas · Remote-Eligible (75% On-Site) · Founding Executive Role

About Our New Venture

This organization is a new, U.S.-incorporated manufacturing platform built to serve frontier-technology industries — humanoid robotics, aerospace, agricultural technology, and healthcare — where reshoring, national security priorities, and speed-to-production are reshaping how and where hardware gets built. Backed by MISUMI Group, a global leader in manufacturing solutions and precision components, this venture combines precision machining, final assembly/test/packaging (FATP), supply chain orchestration, and engineering services into a single U.S.-based platform.

Our founding customers include leading humanoid robotics companies, and is being built from day one to grow with a broader roster of frontier-technology manufacturers as capacity comes online.

The Opportunity

Our organization is standing up its first physical footprint in Austin, Texas: an initial facility in 2026, followed by a purpose-built campus opening in 2027. Over the following three years, the operation is expected to scale from a single-customer pilot into a multi-customer production platform, with the workforce growing from a founding team into a 200-plus-person operation as volume ramps toward several thousand units a year at full scale.

We are hiring the founding SVP to lead this build from the ground up — the first executive on the ground in Austin, responsible for turning an approved capital program into a running, profitable manufacturing operation.

Career path: This role is expected to be promoted to President & CEO of the new organization in 2027, as the operation transitions from initial, single-customer production into multi-customer scale-up — contingent on hitting the facility, customer, and team-building milestones below.

What You’ll Own

• Facility stand-up & scale-up: Lead commissioning of the initial Austin facility and the transition into the larger campus that follows, hitting the milestones tied to the capital plan.
• Customer delivery: Own the relationship with our founding customer and its production ramp, then lead qualification and onboarding of additional frontier-technology customers as capacity comes online.
• Operations & quality: Build out precision machining, FATP, and quality systems (FAIR, SPC, DFM) to the standard demanded by frontier-technology customers.
• Workforce build: Execute a multi-year staffing ramp from a founding team to a 200+-person workforce, combining direct hiring, a local apprenticeship/technical-college pipeline, and flexible nearshore capacity for peak demand.
• Governance & compliance: Partner with legal and security leadership to stand up the governance, security, and workplace controls required for U.S. government-adjacent manufacturing work, including export-control registration and cybersecurity certification requirements.
• P&L and reporting: Own the new organization's operating P&L and report regularly to the company Board of Directors and MISUMI's Americas Business Hub leadership on cost, schedule, and quality performance.
• Team & culture: Build the leadership bench underneath you, recruiting manufacturing and engineering leadership from Austin's robotics and advanced-manufacturing corridor.

What You Bring

• 15+ years in manufacturing operations leadership, with direct P&L ownership of a plant, business unit, or manufacturing company.
• A track record of standing up new manufacturing facilities from the ground up — greenfield or brownfield — including commissioning, hiring ramp, and production qualification.
• Deep fluency in precision manufacturing: CNC machining, final assembly/test/packaging (FATP), new product introduction (NPI), and design-for-manufacturability (DFM).
• Experience serving demanding, fast-iterating hardware customers — robotics, aerospace, defense, or similarly exacting sectors — strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with U.S. export-control and government-contracting frameworks (ITAR, CMMC) is a strong plus; willingness to build and operate within those frameworks is required.
• Comfortable operating with board-level visibility and reporting, including to an international (Japan-based) parent company.
• A builder's mindset — energized by a founding role with real ambiguity, not just running an already-established operation.

Additional Requirement

Because the organization's work is expected to support U.S. government- and defense-adjacent manufacturing programs under ITAR and related export-control frameworks, candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Location & Reporting

• Location: Remote-eligible. The SVP is not required to permanently relocate to Austin, provided they can maintain an on-site presence at the new facility for approximately 75% of working time — reflecting the hands‑on demands of facility commissioning, workforce build‑out, and production leadership.
• Travel: Up to 50% travel overall, covering on-site time in Austin plus trips to MISUMI's Americas Business Hub, customer sites, and Board meetings.
• Reports to: The organization's Board of Directors, with a close working relationship with MISUMI's Americas Business Hub leadership.
• Dotted-line reporting: The organization's Go-to-Market / Business Development leadership, to keep customer pipeline, commercial strategy, and new‑customer qualification tightly aligned with facility capacity and delivery.

Salary Range:
$260,000 - $320,000 base salary per year, plus a variable compensation potential of between $260,000 - $320,000

We’re actively seeking teammates who:

• Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
• Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
• Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
• Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
• Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.