Director, Commodity Management & NPI
WEKA
About this role
The Director of Commodity Management & NPI will lead supplier strategy, cost structure, and hardware readiness across key components such as SSDs, memory, and networking. This role provides strategic oversight of the NPI pipeline and partners cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations to manage timelines, risk, and execution. The director will shape supplier partnerships, influence hardware innovation, and ensure new products launch smoothly and cost-effectively.
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About WEKA
weka.ioWEKA (Weka.io) is a data platform that delivers a high-performance, distributed parallel file and object storage system (WekaFS) designed for AI, ML and other data‑intensive workloads. Its POSIX‑compliant, NVMe‑optimized filesystem offers S3‑compatible object access, global namespace and scale‑out performance across on‑prem and cloud environments, with integrations for GPU and Kubernetes workflows. Enterprises in genomics, media/rendering, finance, autonomous systems and other high‑performance use cases use WEKA to accelerate training, inference, analytics and pipelines. The company emphasizes low latency/high IOPS, simplicity, enterprise data protection (snapshots, replication) and multi‑cloud deployment and support.
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About WEKA
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$266k – $349k
per year