Senior Manager, Supplier Quality (R6220)

Shield AI is actively seeking candidates with deep expertise in manufacturing and quality methodologies, paired with a relentless drive to enable supplier success and strengthen mission-critical operations. Shield AI’s Supply Chain Quality team is responsible for global quality oversight across our supplier base. The team reduces supply-chain risk through supplier assessments and internal risk reviews, proactively drives supplier qualification and development activities. In this role, you will lead a supplier quality team responsible for supplier qualification, development, performance management, and quality assurance across Shield AI’s aerospace and defense supply base. You will set supplier-quality priorities; manage team capacity, technical execution, and resource allocation; and develop high-performing quality leaders. The role also oversees supplier audits, nonconformance resolution, root-cause investigations, and hands on hardware dispositions. You will evaluate supplier capability, quality performance, organizational risk, and resource needs to ensure purchased hardware and materials meet Shield AI engineering, customer, regulatory, and quality requirements. As an experienced aerospace quality leader, you will partner closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Program teams to resolve complex supplier-quality issues, improve supplier capability, and reduce quality and delivery risk across the supply base.