Head of Hardware Production and Supply Chain Operations

MEET YUBICO 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. Why Join Our Mission? At Yubico, we are guided by a shared belief that your work matters. We operate under a cultural philosophy of Speed with Integrity, pushing the boundaries of technology to secure the AI frontier—protecting both human and agentic AI interactions—and leading the transition to post-quantum cryptography. In everything we do, we live by our core values: * Battle Friction: We constantly look for new ways to simplify our products, our work, and the user experience. * Inspire Higher: We think big, champion the open internet, and strive to do the right thing even when it is difficult. * One Team: We are open, responsive, and collaborative, overcoming challenges and celebrating our successes together. Aligned with our commitment to open standards, we foster a thriving builder ecosystem through the Yubico Developer Program, offering free open-source repositories, libraries, and SDKs to help developers rapidly integrate strong hardware authentication into any application. Through close collaborations with technical partners like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as newer frontiers like OpenAI, we continue to shape a safer digital world while donating security keys to protect vulnerable communities, journalists, and humanitarian groups worldwide through our Secure it Forward program. AT YUBICO, WE OFFER: Yubico Values: We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. In support of this, our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups that foster inclusion, help build community and connection across Yubico. Additionally, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations in need all over the world (you can read more about our work here). Social Connection: Relationships and connectedness matter, and we love spending time with our team! Our virtual workspace keeps us connected day-to-day whether it's through Yubico celebrating wins or our buzzing Slack communities. Check out our Life at Yubico Page on LinkedIn and our awards here.   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. TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES: 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.   2. Manufacturing, Automation and In-House Production (40% Focus) * 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. 3. NPI and Cross-Functional Integration * 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   #LI-IR1   We are an equal opportunity employer, we value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. 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SAEKI - MANUFACTURING AT SOFTWARE SPEED Europe's defense industrial base cannot respond at the speed modern conflict requires. Legacy suppliers operate on month-long timelines. Tribal knowledge is retiring. Supply chains are fragile. SAEKI is building the operating system for autonomous factories — the infrastructure that lets Europe manufacture mission-critical components at software speed. You'll be the person who builds the financial backbone underneath all of it. As we scale across two countries, raise capital, and stand up production, you are the one who makes sure we always know where we stand, where the money goes, and how far the runway reaches. THE ROLE As Finance Manager, you own operating finance across both of SAEKI's entities — our HQ in Zurich (Switzerland) and Factory ONE in Munich (Germany). You run FP&A and strategic planning, build the models leadership steers by, and work hand-in-hand with the Chief of Staff on our upcoming debt raise. This is not a close-the-books-and-report-up role. You are building the function: the planning process, the cash and liquidity discipline, the reporting that turns raw numbers into decisions. One week you're modeling scenarios for the financing round, the next you're setting up intercompany flows between CH and DE, the next you're sitting with production to understand unit economics on the factory floor. You work closely with the Chief of Staff, and partner with everyone — external accountants and auditors, banks and investors, and the operations team in Munich. You bring rigor and pace in equal measure, and you grow into broader ownership of the finance organization as the company scales. Based at our HQ in Zurich. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * 2–8 years in finance — this can be a Big 4 audit or transaction services background, with or without a first in-house move. If you're coming straight from Big 4 and ready to build, we want to hear from you; if you've already done a stint in-house at a growth-stage company, even better. We'll scope the role to your experience. * FP&A Horsepower: You build models that hold up. You can take a messy, fast-changing business and turn it into a clear plan — budgets, forecasts, scenarios, cash flow — and explain the story behind the numbers to people who aren't in finance. * Multi-Entity and Cross-Border Fluency: Swiss GAAP FER / IFRS and German HGB, intercompany flows, and VAT across CH and DE. You don't need to have mastered all of it — but you pick up new frameworks fast and aren't fazed by operating across jurisdictions. * Capital and Liquidity Instinct: You understand financing and capital structure. Exposure to a debt raise, venture debt, or fundraising is a plus — and if you haven't done one yet, you'll be hands-on with ours. * Ownership Mentality: You don't wait for process — you build it. When you spot a gap, you fill it. You're as happy in the spreadsheet as you are setting up the system that replaces it. * Language: Fluent in German and English. German is essential for dealing with Swiss and German authorities, contracts, banks, and administrative processes. WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR * Pure reporting controllers who want a stable monthly cycle and a fixed scope. This role is about building and steering, not maintaining what already exists. * Big-company specialists who've only ever owned one slice of finance with a large team around them. Here you own the whole picture, often as a team of one to start. * People who need heavy management. You report to the Chief of Staff and work closely with the CEO — both move fast and expect you to drive your domain with minimal hand-holding. * Candidates optimizing for title over impact. The scope and the ownership are real and growing. The org chart will catch up to what you build. WHAT WE OFFER * Mission: Rebuild the industrial sovereignty of the West. Your work directly enables the production of mission-critical hardware for defense and space. * Total Ownership: You own SAEKI's finance function end to end — the problems, the solutions, and the authority to execute. This is the seat to grow into Head of Finance. * Strategic Seat: You work alongside the Chief of Staff and CEO on financing, planning, and the decisions that shape the company. Finance here is a business partner, not a back office. * The Team: "Special Forces" model. Everyone senior, everyone ships. No politics, no bureaucracy. Direct feedback, high standards. * Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity. * Location: Zurich HQ. APPLY * Resume: Focus on what you've built and owned — models, processes, raises — not just where you've worked. * Cover letter: Why this mission? Why now? Tell us about a time you brought financial clarity to a messy, fast-moving situation.