Director, Commodity Management & NPI

WEKA (1 month ago)

HybridFull TimeDirector$265,903 - $348,772 (estimated)Supply Chain

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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Required Skills

Supplier Strategy
Commodity Management
NPI Management
Supplier Partnerships
Roadmap Alignment
Cost Modeling
KPI Development
Project Management
Cross Functional
Communication

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Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Related Field

About WEKA

weka.io

WEKA (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.