Director, Procurement and Manufacturing

Yubico is a global leader in identity security and creator of

the YubiKey, the original hardware-backed passkey. We are publicly traded on Nasdaq Stockholm; our global footprint includes

headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Silicon Valley, California; and Singapore.

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The

Role:​

This role owns the strategic balance between commercial procurement excellence and advanced manufacturing

oversight across Yubico's hardware supply chain. Given our specialized product nature, the primary mission is to optimize the

balance between cost, time, and quality while ensuring impeccable relationship governance, absolute supply chain stability, and

robust risk mitigation through the development of viable backup plans.

The focus split is 60/40 in favor of Procurement

over Engineering. The ideal candidate will be a sharp commercial negotiator capable of managing complex commodity indexing (e.g.,

precious metal prices affecting electronics) and multi-year capacity reservations with our most vital partners. Simultaneously,

they will lead an experienced engineering team to secure our proprietary in-house programming infrastructure, protect co-developed

IP, and navigate New Product Introductions (NPI) from a supply standpoint.

The role reports to VP - Supply Chain Operations

and is located at Yubico’s head office in Stockholm.

1.

Procurement, Strategic Sourcing and Relationship Governance (60% Focus)​

• Strategic Partner

Governance:​ Manage and mature relationships with our core co-manufacturing partners, navigating complex commercial

conversations and aligning supplier expectations with evolving business needs.

• Commercial Governance and

Process Ownership:​ Act as the internal owner of all hardware procurement processes. In close collaboration with Legal,

lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of Master Services Agreements (MSAs), Quality Assurance Agreements (QAAs), and

commercial contracts to ensure Yubico's corporate interests and assets are fully protected.

• Capacity and Contract Modeling:​ Secure complex, multi-year capacity reservations with our most critical

vendors while hedging against volatile underlying commodity and electronic material prices.

• Supply Chain

Resiliency:​ Where applicable, transition the supply chain from single-source dependencies to a resilient, dual-sourced

ecosystem with viable backup plans, without disrupting historical partner dynamics.

• Packaging Portfolio

Management:​ Oversee and manage our packaging supplier portfolio, addressing reliability issues and establishing rigorous

performance standards to ensure consistent supply.

• Team Mentorship:​ Coach and elevate the team

to professionalize day-to-day purchasing, track spend transparency, and manage contract compliance.

• In-House Programming

Infrastructure:​ Support the development, scaling, and operational uptime of Yubico’s proprietary in-house production and

programming/flashing stations.

• Structured Engineering Leadership:​ Provide structured management

to a highly experienced team of mechanical and automation engineers, channeling their expertise into well-documented

processes.

• IP Protection in Co-Development:​ Establish strict operational and legal boundaries

for the automation lines, fixtures, and parts our engineering team co-designs with suppliers, ensuring Yubico’s proprietary

innovations are contractually protected.

• Quality Safeguards:​ Oversee the Supplier Quality

domain to enforce strict cosmetic and technical standards, ensuring only the top tier of manufacturers operate in our

ecosystem.

• Product Launch

Readiness:​ Serve as the operational anchor for new product launches. Drive proactive, flawless communication ahead of

launches to ensure all suppliers, sub-suppliers, and internal teams are aligned on NPI milestones.

• One

Supply Chain Umbrella:​ Partner intimately with Planning, Logistics, and Fulfillment to ensure procurement strategies,

lead times, and capacity reservations map perfectly against rolling demand forecasts.

Basic Qualifications:​

• Experience:​ 10+ years of hardware/industrial supply

chain experience, heavily weighted toward electronics procurement, supplier relationship management, and contract structural

design.

• The Versatile Career Background:​ Ideally exhibits a proven blend of experience—having

cut their teeth within highly disciplined, mature industrial organizations to learn world-class operational structure, combined

with clear success inside agile, fast-moving scale-ups that move at pace.

• The "Hybrid"

Skillset:​ A seasoned commercial leader who is entirely comfortable negotiating multi-million dollar capacity commitments,

but possesses enough technical depth to lead automation and mechanical domains.

• NPI Proven Track

Record:​ Deep, hands-on experience guiding complex electronic products through difficult New Product Introduction (NPI)

phases under tight deadlines.

• Diplomatic Commercial Acumen:​ Proven ability to handle difficult,

high-stakes supplier conversations with diplomacy, protecting the relationship while securing Yubico’s operational and financial

interests.

• Operational Rigor:​ A builder who can walk into an ecosystem running on

low-documentation and implement clean, scalable processes, acting as a trusted, professional partner to our innovative design and

engineering teams

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