Jobs at Slate (slate.auto)

Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise technology programs, including planning, risk management, integrations, process documentation, change management, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting. The role partners with business and technical teams, supports technology roadmaps, standardizes PMO practices, facilitates governance, and manages system implementations from requirements through hypercare in a fast-paced automotive startup environment.

Leads automotive material planning for service parts and accessories, managing analysts, inventory levels, safety stocks, purchase orders, supplier relationships, and expediting activities. Partners with SI&OP, purchasing, warehouses, 3PLs, and suppliers to maintain fulfillment while reducing inventory and supply chain risk. Drives continuous improvement, optimizes planning parameters, and supports lean, JIT, product launch, and engineering change processes.

Provides desktop, mobile, hardware, software, and remote user support across a corporate facility and remote workforce. Responsibilities include troubleshooting devices and network connectivity, administering Microsoft 365 and Azure AD, managing user accounts and licenses, maintaining IT assets, installing software and updates, documenting incidents, supporting compliance, and improving service desk processes.

Supports corporate FP&A and G&A business partners through forecasting, budgeting, headcount planning, KPI reporting, variance analysis, and financial decision support. The role contributes to annual planning, monthly forecast cycles, close support, and improvements to planning tools and processes, including Workday Adaptive Planning. It requires translating financial data into actionable insights and building trusted relationships with department leaders.

Supports corporate FP&A through Workday Adaptive Planning by developing dashboards, variance reports, forecasts, and consolidated reporting. Maintains planning structures, assumptions, hierarchies, and versions; manages forecast inputs for expenses, margins, headcount, and capital expenditures. Partners with Finance and cross-functional teams to define requirements, improve financial systems, support ERP integrations, ensure data quality, and contribute to monthly and quarterly reporting packages.

Coordinates inbound and outbound logistics for automotive manufacturing, including supplier and carrier management, shipment tracking, expediting, customs documentation, dispatching, warehouse support, freight auditing, and logistics KPI reporting. Analyzes transportation data to reduce costs, supports TMS data integrity, forecasting, budgeting, and continuous improvement initiatives. Ensures compliance with customs, safety, hazmat, EDI, ASN, and customer-specific logistics requirements.

Lead frontend architecture and implementation for Slate's digital customer experience. Drive design, code, testing, and delivery across web and mobile, mentor engineers, collaborate with UX/product, and make long-term technical trade-offs to ensure reliability and scalability.

Manage supplier tooling programs across stamped metal, castings, extrusions, and soft trim from tool award through production runoff and PPAP approval. Track tooling milestones, conduct trials and first article inspections, evaluate dimensional and capability data, drive corrective actions, maintain tooling assets, implement engineering changes, verify capacity, and protect tooling budgets and timing. Mentor supplier quality engineers and hold vendors accountable for production-ready tooling.

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of Slate’s automotive accessories portfolio, from customer research and business case development through launch, performance management, and sunset. Lead cross-functional execution across design, engineering, supply chain, finance, legal, brand, and commercial teams. Manage licensing and reseller agreements, make product trade-offs, conduct market studies, present recommendations to leadership, and support supplier and office-site activities.

Senior Corporate Accountant responsible for journal entries, account reconciliations, financial statements, month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, audits, internal controls, ERP implementation, budgeting support, and public company readiness. The role also develops accounting procedures, drives process improvements, and collaborates with FP&A and other stakeholders in a manufacturing environment.

Coordinates inbound and outbound logistics for automotive manufacturing, including supplier and carrier management, expedited freight, shipment tracking, customs documentation, dispatching, warehouse coordination, KPI reporting, transportation cost analysis, TMS data integrity, and continuous improvement. Requires knowledge of domestic and international freight, customs compliance, Incoterms 2020, EDI, ASNs, and logistics documentation.

Designs and improves the legal department’s operating model, including intake, triage, marketing review, contract management, knowledge management, and e-billing. Leads legal technology selection and implementation, develops playbooks and self-service resources, builds performance dashboards, supports budgeting and strategic planning, and coordinates cross-functional initiatives with Finance, IT, Marketing, executives, vendors, and outside counsel.

Develop and release electrical ADAS requirements for battery-electric vehicles, manage Tier 1 suppliers, and maintain control-module releases in PLM. Review hardware designs, create test plans, lead DFMEA reviews, support HIL/SIL validation, troubleshoot system issues, train technicians, and apply cybersecurity and Lean Engineering practices.

Develops requirements, test plans, diagnostics, and controls for electrical switches, actuators, and sensors in battery-electric vehicles. Manages Tier 1 suppliers, releases components through PLM, leads DFMEA reviews, validates hardware designs, applies cybersecurity and lean engineering practices, and diagnoses complex issues using structured quality methods. Requires experience with low- and high-voltage vehicle systems, harness development, communication protocols, and PPAP documentation.

Leads Slate’s GenAI strategy, architecture, and production deployment across vehicle engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, software, and go-to-market operations. Owns enterprise-scale GenAI platforms, agentic systems, data and context layers, model serving, evaluation, guardrails, and observability. Applies physical AI to robotics, computer vision, predictive maintenance, and factory feedback loops. Recruits and develops a high-performing technical team while remaining hands-on with coding, architecture, stakeholder engagement, and technical standards.

Lead the design, procurement, validation, commissioning, and improvement of automotive General Assembly equipment, fixtures, and tooling. Support NPI through tooling strategies, layouts, PFMEAs, control plans, and launch readiness. Analyze equipment performance, resolve root causes, improve safety, quality, throughput, uptime, and cost, and maintain technical documentation. Partner with suppliers and cross-functional teams while training technicians, operators, and engineers.

Own procure-to-pay process improvement across accounts payable, purchasing, receiving, suppliers, and plant operations. Conduct root-cause analyses, manage corrective actions, author SOPs, improve invoice matching and exception workflows, support SAP implementation hypercare, evaluate automation, report performance metrics, strengthen payment controls, and support month-end close activities.

Leads the design and development of vehicle body closures, including doors, hoods, liftgates, and related mechanisms, from concept through production launch. Owns functional, cost, quality, mass, timing, manufacturability, and regulatory objectives. Collaborates with internal teams, suppliers, and external engineering partners while supporting design reviews, issue resolution, production readiness, and continuous improvement. Requires mechanical engineering expertise, automotive body closure experience, manufacturing knowledge, and familiarity with NHTSA and FMVSS requirements.

Own the strategy and roadmap for vehicle delivery across fleet and retail customers. Define product requirements, manage partner integrations, gather customer and industry insights, and collaborate with engineering, design, operations, commercial, and leadership teams. Drive agile product development, continuous improvement, and delivery of complex, operationally intensive products, including AI-powered features, in a fast-paced startup environment.

Lead General Assembly operations in a high-volume electric vehicle manufacturing environment. Oversee production, maintenance, quality, engineering, personnel, safety, cost, delivery, and continuous improvement objectives. Manage expenditures, audits, workforce engagement, launch activities, process improvements, and waste elimination. Coordinate with maintenance and engineering teams, monitor production attainment, coach employees, and promote quality, safety, teamwork, and operational excellence.