- Salary
- $165k – $240k
- Location
- Alameda HQ
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Manufacturing
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Lever
Description
About Pyka
Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.
To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems.
We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.
Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce CO2 emissions in their respective industries.
What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.
Role Overview
Pyka is looking for a seasoned and strategic Head of Supply Chain to lead the development and execution of our global supply chain operations as we scale production of our autonomous electric aircraft. This role oversees end-to-end supply chain execution, ensuring operational excellence across procurement, inventory management, international logistics, and vendor relationships.
In this role, you will play a critical role in shaping the team, relationships, strategies, and systems that enable Pyka to meet demand efficiently, reliably, and cost effectively. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role that requires deep expertise in international supply chains, ERP systems, and fast-paced, complex manufacturing environments. If you're excited by the idea of building and leading a supply chain that supports the future of sustainable aviation, we want to hear from you.
A typical day on this role will include: negotiating terms with key suppliers, reaching out to new suppliers for a new component destined for production, helping your reports with tricky problems, working cross functionally on new tools within Odoo to boost your team’s productivity, and planning out a schedule with an engineering team member that’s working to introduce a new revision of hardware while deprecating an old revision that’s on order. We’re looking for someone who loves system building and managing as much as they love rolling up their sleeves and contributing as an IC while the team is still small.