Head of Manufacturing

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🗽 New York – Remote

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Interplay

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Marketing • Fintech

Interplay is a venture capital firm that focuses on supporting startup founders through its incubator and investment programs. The company provides a platform for innovation and growth, offering resources, guidance, and funding to startups in various industries. Interplay aims to connect visionary entrepreneurs with the tools and insights needed to succeed and make a significant impact in their respective markets.

📋 Description

• Execute and own Lykos’ end-to-end manufacturing strategy, from turning raw material inputs into finished precursors to finished ceramic components and modular manufacturing units for distributed micro-factories. • Lead the initial pilot manufacturing build, including equipment selection, layout, tooling, automation, testing and CAPEX management. • Integrate laser-enabled manufacturing processes with ceramic material workflows to ensure repeatability, yield, and quality. • Establish production process controls, quality systems, and documentation aligned with aerospace and defense standards. • Identify scale-up risks, cost inflection points, and throughput constraints early and engineer them out across multiple material SKUs and partner environments. • Serve as the primary operational interface with defense contractors, commercial businesses, manufacturing partners, and government stakeholders. • Develop the operational playbook for scaling from pilot production to higher-volume manufacturing of materials and modular processing facilities. • Partner with the CEO, CSO, and advisory teams to translate technical strategy into executable operational milestones. • Recruit and manage cross-functional teams (engineering, operations, procurement, research) • Champion a culture of precision, accountability, and disciplined execution appropriate for defense manufacturing.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or precision industrial operations. • Proven experience building or launching new production lines, manufacturing cells, or pilot facilities in one or more of the following sectors: • - Advanced Manufacturing (Carbon, Velo3D, Relativity, Divergent, etc.) • - Aerospace / Defense (Anduril, Raytheon, SpaceX, Northrop, etc.) • - High Performance Materials (CoorsTek, Kyocera, Applied Materials, ASML, etc.) • Strong understanding of process engineering, yield management, and quality systems. • Strong understanding of polymer derived ceramics, liquid polymer precursors, and material science. • Strong understanding of autonomous manufacturing systems, data organization, and related machine learning applications. • Experience operating multi-million dollar projects within regulated environments (AS9100, ITAR, DFARS, or equivalent). • Demonstrated ability to operate in early-stage, fast-moving environments. • Comfort working hands-on across engineering, operations, and external partners.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities