# Supply Chain Lead

**Company:** [Icarus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/icarus)
**Location:** El Segundo, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $140k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Supply Chain Management, Sourcing, Procurement, supplier management, Inventory Management, materials planning, logistics, ERP, mrp, export control, Compliance, make-vs-buy analysis
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Build and own the end-to-end supply chain for a fast-moving aerospace startup developing solar-powered high-altitude aircraft. Define strategy, build supplier networks and team, manage inventory/logistics, mitigate long-lead risks, and scale from prototypes to high-rate production while working directly with the CEO.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Own the supply chain end to end: sourcing, procurement, supplier management, inventory, materials planning, and logistics.
- Define and execute the supply chain strategy as Icarus scales across the full lifecycle — from low-rate prototype builds to high-rate production.
- Build the supply chain organization: structure, roles, hiring, and the operating cadence to run it as the team grows.
- Build and manage a network of high-performing suppliers for flight hardware across avionics, electronics, structures and composites, solar, energy storage, mechanical, and RF.
- Attack long-lead and single-source risk before it becomes a flight blocker. Build buffer, qualify second sources, and stay ahead of demand.
- Drive make-vs-buy and vertical integration decisions together with engineering and manufacturing.
- Stand up the systems, KPIs, and end-to-end visibility (ERP/MRP, receiving, incoming inspection) that let the company see and control its material flow.
- Negotiate pricing, terms, and lead times with suppliers, and own PO and vendor management.
- Own supply chain export-control and compliance posture for a defense aerospace company: country-of-origin and domestic sourcing requirements, counterfeit-part avoidance, and supplier quality.

## What we’re looking for

- Deep experience in supply chain, sourcing, or procurement for complex hardware; owned a supply base and beaten lead times on hard-to-source parts.
- Taken a product from development or prototype into production and scaled the supply chain to match.
- Hands-on with ERP/MRP and the systems and KPIs that give a company end-to-end material visibility.
- Built not just a supply chain, but a supply chain team and operating cadence, without slowing the company down.
- Extremely high ownership. When a part is late, you fix it. When a supplier is a risk, you replace them. When something is moving too slowly, you accelerate it.
- Comfortable working directly with the CEO and senior technical leaders, and making decisions with incomplete information.
- Organized, intense, low-ego, and allergic to bureaucracy.
- Can operate at 60,000 feet and on the factory floor in the same day.

## Why Icarus

- A lot of equity
- Top market salary and bonuses
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Factory in El Segundo
- Real ownership, real hardware, real flight
- Small team, massive responsibility (but growing very fast)
- High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture
- Dream desk setup
- Daily lunch
- Unlimited celsius

## US salary range

$140,000 - $230,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Icarus' total compensation package.

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