Current Openings at System76
System76 is the leading provider of Linux laptops, desktops, and servers. System76 offers health benefits, health club discounts, paid vacation, matching 401k, sabbatical and an awesome work environment where smart people are free to create.
Purchasing Manager // Denver, CO
System76 is opening a Denver computer manufacturing facility complete with lasers, robots, cranes and ovens. We need help working with our current supply chain and developing relationships with new vendors.
As Purchasing Manager at System76, you will work with producers of raw materials, computer components, packaging, and server systems. You’ll work across talented engineering and marketing teams to identify requirements, then set out to discover and compare vendors, seeking the best pricing and terms for our company and customers. You’ll be involved in the design and layout of the product line. Along with your colleagues, you’ll keep up on the latest GPU, CPU, and storage technologies, ensuring that System76 customers always have the best tech available.
You’re a people person that loves data and spreadsheets. You know how to establish and grow a relationship and when it’s right to push for better terms. You’re a cross the t’s and dot the i’s type and you constantly GSD. You feel an urgency to ensure that teams have the parts they need to execute for our customers but also understand that too much inventory waste company resources. You know how to find the balance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage all aspects of purchasing
- Manage existing relationships and seek new vendors
- Develop promotions with the marketing team and vendors
- Gather detailed purchasing requirements from engineering and design
- Forecast stock levels
- Price comparison and negotiations
- Verify that incoming inventory matches orders placed
- Terms negotiation
- Maintain product design spreadsheets
- Other duties as assigned
Required skills and experience:
- Experience purchasing through tech distribution channels (Synnex, D&H, ASI, TechData)
- Understanding of computer components and how to compare them
- Solid understanding of math, forecasting, and analysis
- Practiced in just-in-time inventory strategy
- Ability and desire to conduct deep research into subjects
- Excellent relationship management skills
- Impeccable organization
- You're smart and fun to work with
To be considered for this position, send your resume (and links to any source code you have online) to careers@system76.com.
Top qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.
You, Ya Beautiful Snowflake // Denver, CO
If you’re an awesome software engineer, maker, designer, mechanical engineer, do-everything-er, open source nut, genius, and/or passionate Linux user, we may be able to find a fit for you. If that’s intriguing, email your résumé, links to any work you have online, and why we should hire you: hiring@system76.com.
Bartending experience a plus.
