Senior Manager, Automotive Programs

Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) powers the industries of today and tomorrow by connecting the people with big ideas to the manufacturers who can bring them to life. Xometry’s digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity.

Automotive is one of the most demanding and most valuable segments Xometry serves. Programs in this space carry multi-year horizons, unforgiving launch timing, and a quality bar defined by APQP, PPAP, and IATF-aligned customer requirements. Getting them right builds durable, high-volume production relationships. Getting them wrong is visible immediately.

The Senior Manager, Automotive Programs owns Xometry’s automotive program portfolio end to end. This leader is accountable both for growing the automotive book of business within existing accounts and for the disciplined execution of those programs from award through launch, PPAP, and steady-state supply. It is a dual mandate: build the pipeline and deliver on it.

This role leads a team of program managers and works closely with the field-deployed engineering team, the Partner Network, Sales, and Quality. Success requires an automotive-native operator who can hold a customer program review on Monday, drive a supplier 8D on Tuesday, and coach a program manager through a launch risk on Wednesday.

This role reports to the Director, Strategic Program Operations.

• Own performance across Xometry’s portfolio of automotive production programs against cost, quality, delivery, and growth objectives
• Establish program governance, operating cadences, and customer review rhythms appropriate to automotive expectations
• Maintain a consolidated view of automotive program loading, capacity commitments, and launch timing across the partner network
• Lead risk identification, escalation, and mitigation across customer, partner, and internal teams
• Report portfolio health to Xometry leadership and to customer program teams

• Identify and develop new production program opportunities within existing automotive accounts, including OEMs and Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers
• Partner with Sales and the field engineering team to qualify opportunities, shape the technical and commercial approach, and win awards
• Build senior-level relationships with customer purchasing, program management, and supplier quality organizations
• Translate customer sourcing roadmaps into a forward pipeline of Xometry opportunities
• Own a defined growth target for the automotive segment

• Own the APQP process from program award through tooling, validation, PPAP submission, run-at-rate, and customer start of production
• Build and maintain program timelines covering tooling, sampling, tool tryout, validation, PPAP, and SOP milestones
• Partner with Quality to execute PPAP requirements including PSW, control plans, process flow, PFMEA, MSA, and capability studies
• Plan and manage safe-launch and GP12 requirements, customer-controlled shipping where applicable, and 8D corrective actions through closure
• Support Xometry’s quality management system obligations and participate in customer QMS audits and supplier assessments
• Ensure operational readiness for production ramps, program transfers, and engineering change execution

• Work with the Partner Network and field engineering teams to identify and qualify partners capable of meeting automotive quality and volume requirements
• Assess partner production readiness, capacity, and quality systems ahead of program placement
• Drive partner performance against…