Job Description
As Skydio’s Global Planning Manager you will be responsible for translating demand forecasts and sales with production capacity and material supply. You and your team will manage work orders for all products built at Skydio’s headquarters in Hayward, California, develop and optimize planning systems & infrastructure. This role plays a critical role in ensuring operational and financial success for the organization. Working closely with RevOps, Production and Materials Planners, you will develop, communicate and execute supply plans for our global customer across all of our hardware portfolio. How you'll make an impact: Work with supply chain, production, and sales teams to develop the production plan based on forecasted demand, material deliveries and constraints, manufacturing capacity, headcount, shifts, and overtime availability. Manage production work order, packout, and repair schedules and reconcile variances. Evolve manufacturing model based on historical results and planned process and capacity improvements. Coordinate with engineering to support line trials, engineering builds, ECO implementation, and post ramp qualifications within the production schedule. Identify and implement continuous improvements to production and business processes and systems.
Skydio is a drone manufacturer that uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumers, enterprises, and government customers. It develops AI-powered drones to deliver the power and flying cameras without the complexity. The company's drones use an array of cameras and proprietary computer vision technology to recognize, avoid objects in real-time, and predict into the future to make intelligent decisions, enabling users by flying themselves through the most demanding tasks or keeping them safe from obstacles when they want to take control. The company's debut drone, the R1, could track a target and film them while avoiding obstacles without any human intervention required. Then the company released the Skydio 2 in 2019, its second drone, cutting off more than half the price while improving it its autonomous tracking and video capabilities. Its flagship product, the X2, is equipped with seven cameras, 100x zoom, night vision, and promises to turn ordinary users into expert pilots thanks to its self-piloting abilities. It is backed by top investors and strategic partners including Andreessen Horowitz, Linse Capital, Next47, IVP, Playground, NVIDIA, and UP.Partners.
