Who we are:
At Glydways, we believe that mobility is a basic human right. Low-cost and ubiquitous access to affordable housing, employment, education, commerce and care lead to economic and social prosperity. As such our goal is to provide:
Public transit with the highest capacity, the best user experience, the lowest cost, and the lowest carbon footprint.
Our solution is a system of interconnected, profitable, and carbon footprint neutral transportation networks that uses standardized autonomous vehicles and a closed roadway. Together, they provide a 24/7 on-demand private mobility service without burdening the public with heavy upfront costs or annual system subsidies.
Meet the team:
The Global Supply Chain team drives centralized planning, sourcing, delivery and build for all components, parts, modules, CAPEX, services, software, and tools for prototype, engineering builds, and production. We work closely with vehicle hardware, vehicle software, autonomy, robot infrastructure, design teams and a diverse set of suppliers and partners to design, development, manufacture and deploy Glydcars and Glydways system.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with engineering and design team to gather requirement and needs, develop and implement sourcing strategy.
- Develop suppliers, prepare and conduct RFIs, RFPs and RFQs and ensure timely response from suppliers.
- Review quote and proposal from suppliers, negotiate price, terms and contracts, work with cross functional teams to evaluate and select best fit suppliers.
- Prepare purchase orders, maintain and track order status, items purchased, costs, deliveries, invoice, payment, quality and product performance.
- Facilitate BOM management and inventory management, coordinate with internal and external teams to ensure on time delivery.
- Develop collaborative relationships with suppliers; monitor performance and resolve issues.
- Coordinate and report out on specific supply chain issues as necessary.
- Manage disruptions to ensure the business continuity in real time.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in engineering, supply chain management. MBA is a plus
- 7+ years experiences in supply chain or engineering.
- Strong negotiation skills and good business judgement
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills. Attention to details.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to make quick decisions and solve complex problems with 80% information.
- Willingness to travel within US or internationally up to 20%
Glydways provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
What We Do
Glydways, Inc. is an American transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, CA. The company specializes in the design, manufacture, installation and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium and extremely high capacity needs.
Founded in 2016 by engineer and entrepreneur Mark Seeger, the company was started with the goal of providing affordable mobility for communities across the world. This goal is founded in the belief that access to affordable housing, employment, education and care lead to economic and social prosperity, and the key to this equity is mobility for as many people as possible.
Lead by Gokul Hemmady who serves as CEO, the company’s core objectives are to provide a 24/7 mobility service solution that is environmentally net-negative in terms of greenhouse gas production (GHG), and, inherently profitable. GHG-negative is achieved through the invention and use of power-efficient technologies to reduce the watt-hours-per-person-per-unit-distance traveled, and, photovoltaics embedded into the infrastructure. Economic sustainability is achieved by designing for operational costs that are inherently lower than revenue collected when selling a ride. The key comes from decoupling the unit-costs from the utilization of the system, something that is not possible with existing public/mass transportation systems. By being financially sustainable, Glydways relieves municipalities of the vast annual subsidies required to operate existing solutions, which are inherently unprofitable and thereby a fiscal burden to public budgets. Further, the Glydways business model allows for private capitalization of entire systems.
Glydways provides the highest capacity, at the lowest cost, with the best user experience, and the lowest greenhouse gas footprint of any mobility solution, providing a personal, on-demand, and point-to-point journey with no stops between origin and destination
