About the role
The mission
The US needs to reindustrialize. Defense programs and hardware startups run on custom mechanical parts, and most of those parts come from small machine shops. The industrial base everyone talks about rebuilding is thousands of these small businesses.
A 15-person shop has the owner answering the phone, programming the machines, and chasing payments before lunch. Quoting RFQs that never convert, compliance flowdowns, net-60 terms - all of it lands on the owner. Of course the best shops guard their time, it's a rational response to how the industry is built. They have more choice than ever, and they decide who they pick up the phone for.
We believe the key to rebuilding American manufacturing is to make these shops win. Jiga is building the layer that finds capacity, qualifies it, and moves work across the network without the red tape and handoffs that stall programs today.
With AI, that layer is buildable now, and whoever builds it becomes the way America ramps production.
Our supply base is an indispensable part of the product. A curated network of partners where shops treat us as a key customer, often their best customer. This role is about owning that network commercially and turning it into won business for the shops and for Jiga.
The role
You'll own supplier development and business development on the supply side. You know our supply base deeply, build strategic deals with key suppliers, and help them develop and acquire business through Jiga. When a large customer opportunity shows up, you know which shops in the network fit, or which new ones to bring on board, and you orchestrate the deal.
This is a commercial role, and a key one for the company. It pairs our world-class AI and supplier data with relationship and trust-building skills. You own how our partners grow and win additional business.
You'll work directly with the CEO, COO, sales, and supply chain teams, and shape how the network looks: who's in it and who gets which opportunities.
