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Strategic Sourcing Manager, Core Technologies – Humanoid Robotics

Meta· Program Management
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Redmond, WA$168k - $234kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead Core Technologies in humanoid robotics, focusing on identifying, selecting, and developing long-term partnerships for new and sophisticated technologies across cross-functional teams, aligning external partner strategy to product roadmaps and delivering high-quality components and modules at the right time, speed, and cost.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct global market landscape analyses for new technologies, modules, and use-cases; partner with PMs, engineering leads, and other cross-functional stakeholders to recommend the right partner decision matrix serving Reality Labs' long-term technology needs
  • Actively engage in and influence new technology exploration; collaborate with cross-functional partners to create a long-term Technology Roadmap aligned with Product Roadmaps, and advise executive leadership on partner/supplier strategy
  • Own technology transfer into suppliers and elevate suppliers' technology capabilities
  • Work with Hardware Engineering and Tech Ops teams to enable the right development frameworks at select partners, kick-starting manufacturing and process technology solutions aligned with long-term needs
  • Develop and drive technology partner engagement strategy ensuring suppliers can meet Meta's current and future technical and business requirements
  • Drive strategic supply chain direction and innovation via the Value Innovation Forum with product design and technology operations
  • Utilize expertise in component manufacturing processes to assess supplier capabilities, resolve capacity constraints, and validate cost dependencies
  • Support and influence Industrial Design and Hardware Engineering teams in new technology scoping efforts with potential materials, process, and equipment partners
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to drive the supplier selection process (own RFx) and component qualification under strict engineering and commercial best practices
  • Actively participate in solving technical and operational challenges alongside cross-functional partners to keep product launch schedules on track
  • Perform Value Engineering: alternate source qualification, alternate materials/process evaluation, quality assessment, and cost reduction initiatives at the material and manufacturing level
  • Serve as an expert in commodity technology, cost, and supply with strong command of value engineering and technical cost reduction concepts at both product and category levels
  • Drive Early Supplier Involvement initiatives to ensure suppliers proactively contribute to new product designs and future product roadmaps
  • Drive product cost optimization and negotiate competitive pricing while considering total cost of ownership, including product cost, CapEx, logistics, inventory, and cost of quality
  • Apply cost engineering principles to deliver detailed and competitive should-cost and budget (OpEx/CapEx) projections that can withstand rigorous scrutiny and challenge
  • Formulate contingency plans to de-risk technical challenges, long lead times, single-source dependencies, and supply risks
  • Drive supplier and site readiness activities for NTI and NPI programs leading to successful product launches at required volumes, spanning operational, commercial, and legal domains
  • Maintain accountability for securing components and/or services that provide competitive advantage in both technology and cost for Meta

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or extensive experience in related field
  • 10+ years of experience in consumer electronics or technology industry, with experience scaling technologies from concept stage through mass production
  • Experience articulating points of view to executive management while executing on plans when directed
  • Experience working embedded with Hardware and Systems Engineering throughout the product development process
  • Experience building relationships with Engineering, Product Management, and other cross-functional partners; ability to drive discussions on technical specification optimization and feature vs. value trade-offs
  • Experience building and influencing relationships at suppliers' executive level with a holistic view of supplier core capabilities, enabling future collaboration in new and uncharted technology domains
  • Data-driven problem-solving skills to address multi-dimensional problems with high uncertainty across multiple functional teams
  • Experience in supplier evaluation/selection, should-cost modeling, contract negotiation, and supply base management
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%
  • Factory management and operations experience

Skills

Required:Global market landscape analysisTechnology roadmappingRFx and supplier qualificationValue engineeringCost optimization and total cost of ownership

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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