Responsibilities:
- Oversee daily operations for wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, and packaging.
- Drive continuous improvements in yield, cycle time, equipment utilization, and manufacturing efficiency.
- Lead expansion, capacity planning, and technology transitions (e.g., new nodes, new packaging technologies).
- Manage end-to-end supply chain including procurement, vendor management, inventory, and logistics.
- Build strategic supplier relationships to ensure materials availability and cost-effectiveness.
- Mitigate supply risks and develop dual-sourcing strategies.
- Lead quality systems across manufacturing, supplier management, and customer qualification.
- Ensure compliance with ISO, IATF, and industry-specific standards.
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for yield issues or field failures.
- Partner with R&D, Product Engineering, Sales/Marketing, and Finance to support product launches and customer commitments.
- Translate technology roadmaps into operational requirements within budgetary requirements.
- Support new product introduction (NPI) to high-volume manufacturing (HVM).
- Develop long-term operational strategy aligned with company goals.
- Mentor and develop a high-performing operations team
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience (15+ years) spanning manufacturing, supply chain, and operations leadership at a global scale within the fabless semiconductor industry.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
- Proven record of operational transformation improving cost, quality, and delivery simultaneously.
- Proven experience managing high-volume manufacturing environments.
- Operational economics, supplier readiness, and data-driven manufacturing systems expertise, senior executive level communications.
- Executive presence, clarity in communication, and comfort operating at both strategy and execution levels.
- Experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional initiatives that align multiple organizations to deliver coordinated operational results.
- Experience scaling manufacturing networks or managing large-site transformations.
- Proven collaboration to enable aligned execution.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience spanning manufacturing, supply chain, and operations leadership
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
- Proven record of operational transformation
- Experience managing high-volume manufacturing environments
- Expertise in operational economics and data-driven manufacturing systems
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives
- Experience scaling manufacturing networks or managing large-site transformations
- Proven collaboration skills for aligned execution
What We Do
Lumotive’s transformative optical semiconductors are enabling “Lidar 2.0” for consumer electronics, industrial automation, robotics, and automotive applications. The company’s Meta-Lidar™ Reference Platform utilizes revolutionary beam-steering technology based on patented Light Control Metasurfaces™ and implemented in standard semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliver an unprecedented combination of best-in-class performance, cost, reliability and size. Lumotive’s LCMs enable the industry’s first software-defined lidar with advanced perception capabilities. Lumotive’s Meta-Lidar™ Platform was recently recognized with two CES 2022 Innovation awards, a 2022 SPIE Prism Award, a Business Intelligence Group Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award, and a prestigious Edison Award. Investors include Bill Gates, Samsung Ventures, Quan Funds and MetaVC Partners.
