Sourcing and Manufacturing Specialist

Company

In 2019, we started building profitable startups from scratch. We brought together top engineering minds from places like Princeton and MIT to drive the highest success rate in the industry and turn company building into a science.

During that time, we’ve built ten high-growth companies, driving $200M+ in revenue. Along the way, we’ve developed an engineering approach to entrepreneurship rooted in algorithms and advanced mathematics.

Now, we’re working to automate company building to the point that we can press a button to launch profitable companies—ventures that can reinvest their own resources to become enterprises that help millions, or even billions, of people.

As our Sourcing & Manufacturing Specialist , you will own product sourcing, supplier relationships, procurement, and manufacturing execution for the fast-growing DTC e-commerce brands across our portfolio.

You are not joining a single company. You are joining a venture studio that builds companies from scratch, and you will be the person who finds the right manufacturers, negotiates the right terms, and makes sure products are manufactured to spec, on time, and at the right cost. One week you may be sourcing a new SKU for an established home-cleaning brand that has already sold over a million units.

The next, you may be qualifying manufacturers for a product line that doesn’t yet exist.

Your work compounds. The suppliers you vet, the relationships you build, and the playbooks you create become infrastructure the entire portfolio can leverage. As a hands-on individual contributor and the sourcing subject matter expert across our companies, you will partner closely with the Supply Chain Lead, fractional CEOs, Operations Engineers, and product teams.

This is a full-time independent contractor role.

• Source products and suppliers end-to-end for portfolio companies—identifying, vetting, and qualifying manufacturers (with an emphasis on China, plus the USA and other regions) to hit cost, quality, and lead-time targets

• Own manufacturer relationships day-to-day, coordinating production schedules, quality standards, lead times, and issue resolution as the primary point of contact with factories

• Distinguish factories from trading companies and negotiate directly at the source, protecting margin and ensuring you’re buying from the right link in the chain

• Drive new SKU launches from a sourcing perspective—product development and feasibility, sample management and consolidation, packaging sourcing, and costing analysis from first quote to production-ready

• Run supplier negotiations and payment terms (deposits, balances, milestones), securing favorable pricing and terms while managing risk

• Run quality control and QA in coordination with inspection partners—setting standards, catching defects before they ship, and protecting the customer experience and the brand

• Coordinate product safety and regulatory compliance testing in partnership with our Compliance team (arranging third-party lab testing, certifications, and documentation) so that products are verified as market-ready before launch

• Manage international freight, logistics, and import coordination—partnering with 3PLs and freight forwarders on LCL/FCL and air freight, customs clearance, and on-time delivery to warehouses

• Drive margin improvement through packaging optimization, vendor negotiation, re-sourcing, and cost-down initiatives at the sourcing and manufacturing layer

• Build a vetted supplier network and reusable sourcing playbooks so manufacturing capability compounds across the portfolio rather than being rebuilt for each company

• Leverage AI, automation, and modern tooling to increase the speed and accuracy of sourcing, quoting, and supplier management

• Collaborate…