--- title: 'Product Manager (Supply Chain) at First Resonance' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-supply-chain-first-resonance-los-angeles-f69e7h4ddd9f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-04' --- # Product Manager (Supply Chain) at First Resonance - **Company:** First Resonance - **Location:** Los Angeles, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/first-resonance/771cfee6-e8b5-47bd-9498-87b82b47cd45 ## Job description ## OVERVIEW First Resonance is seeking a Product Manager – Supply Chain to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of our supply chain and inventory management product capabilities. Modern hardware manufacturers—building rockets, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and clean energy tech—face massive supply chain bottlenecks, traceability challenges, and supplier complexity. You will translate deep supply chain and manufacturing insights into intuitive, high-impact software solutions. At First Resonance, our product managers operate close to the metal. While deep domain fluency in manufacturing supply chains is our top priority for this role, our PMs are technically hands-on—comfortable analyzing data, building functional prototypes, navigating APIs, and occasionally pushing code. You will join a high-impact product team working directly with engineers, factory planners, procurement teams, and hardware leaders to build the future of industrial software. ## RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES As a Product Manager focusing on Supply Chain, you will own the end-to-end product lifecycle for our supply chain, procurement, inventory, and traceability modules. - Drive Supply Chain Product Strategy: Define and champion the roadmap for supply chain capabilities (e.g., purchase order tracking, vendor management, inventory allocation, lot/serial traceability, and BOM/MRP synchronization) aligned with high-tech hardware manufacturing needs. - Solve Intricate Supply Chain Bottlenecks: Partner directly with supply chain directors, procurement leads, inventory managers, and manufacturing engineers to deeply understand operational pains and design elegant software solutions. - Bridge Strategy & Technical Delivery: Translate complex hardware supply chain logic into clear technical specs, wireframes, and functional prototypes. Work closely with engineering to build, test, and ship high-quality features fast. - Hands-on Execution: Engage in modern, technical product development workflows, including building functional prototypes, running data queries, and contributing directly to the product codebase when needed. - Champion User-Centric Design: Conduct field research, iterative prototyping, and user acceptance testing with factory and supply chain teams to simplify complex, legacy workflows. - Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyze user behavior, inventory flow metrics, and customer feedback to measure feature impact, validate new product hypotheses, and optimize customer outcomes. - Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate across Engineering, Product Design, Customer Success, and Sales to ensure our supply chain offerings deliver measurable ROI and seamless onboarding for customers. ## MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS - 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Supply Chain Operations, Industrial Engineering, or related technical fields, with exposure to software development environments. - Deep Domain Understanding: Strong knowledge of manufacturing supply chain operations (e.g., procurement workflows, inventory/WMS logic, bill of materials, component traceability, vendor management). - Technical Aptitude: Comfortable with modern software technical concepts, APIs, database/data structure principles, and eager to work in a environment where PMs push code, run scripts, or build functional prototypes. - Product Lifecycle Ownership: Proven track record of taking product features from initial customer research and requirements gathering through delivery, launch, and post-release iteration. - Systems Thinking: Ability to map out complex multi-party workflows (suppliers, factory floor, inventory managers, engineering) down to edge cases and systemic dependencies. - Customer-Centric Communication: Excellent ability to speak fluently with both factory-floor specialists/supply chain directors and software engineers. - Adaptability: Thrives in an agile startup environment with a high degree of autonomy and ownership. ## DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Hands-on experience with hardware/manufacturing supply chain software, such as ERPs (e.g., NetSuite, SAP), MES, PLM, or specialized inventory/procurement systems. - Practical coding experience (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL) or a background in Software/Industrial Engineering. - Experience utilizing AI-assisted tools for rapid prototyping, specification drafting, and data analysis. - Experience working directly with advanced hardware manufacturing sectors (e.g., aerospace, defense, automotive, energy, or robotics). ## BENEFITS & PERKS - Health Insurance: medical, vision, dental, & life insurance. - Paid Parental Leave. - Employee Stock Option Plan. - Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours. - Paid holidays, sick days. - Flexible Friday and PTO. - 401(k). First Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. First Resonance participates in E-Verify. Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. ## ABOUT FIRST RESONANCE First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes space exploration, electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery. ## About First Resonance ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: First Resonance develops the ION Factory Operating System (a modern Manufacturing Execution System) to help complex hardware and advanced manufacturing companies move from prototype to production with speed, traceability, and compliance. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed) - **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, USA - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Karan Talati (CEO) — the company was founded by former engineers from SpaceX and NASA-related companies who needed a better platform for rapid engineering and manufacturing iteration. ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Advanced Manufacturing Software, Industrial IoT, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Aerospace & Defense, Medical Devices, Climate Tech - Target customers: B2B, Enterprise — hard-tech manufacturers including spacecraft builders, nuclear innovators, robotics leaders, and other quality-critical discrete manufacturers - Mission or purpose statement: "Enable the next generation of hardware companies to bring their inventions to market sooner, many of which have the potential to fix some of the massive challenges that threaten our existence." ## Products & Services - **[ION Factory OS]**: The core platform — a modern MES (Manufacturing Execution System) that provides digital work instructions, production planning, and as-built BOMs (a digital replica of every product). It is highly configurable, has an open API, and deploys quickly without costly implementations. It is AI-powered and ensures compliance and traceability. - **[ION Analytics]**: A module delivering end-to-end visibility across the factory and supply chain, root cause analysis for slow output and quality issues, and true cost tracking per assembly (labor, components, sub-assemblies). - **[ION AutoPlan]**: A forecasting and planning module that uses real-time inventory and capacity data to calculate accurate start dates and set reliable delivery expectations. - **[ION Enhances]**: A module focused on process and quality management, including non-conformance tracking and resolution workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; the company is recognized by Built In as a top workplace and is a member of the "Black Flag 100." They highlight deployments in GovCloud and FedRAMP environments, and maintain SOC 2 certification and ITAR compliance. - **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring across multiple US cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Denver, Austin) for roles like Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Senior Technical Product Manager, and Product Marketing Manager. The company has a "Hybrid" workplace model with flexible on-site expectations. The company is expanding its presence in the AI and developer community space. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep domain expertise**: Founded by former SpaceX and NASA engineers who directly experienced the pain points of legacy MES systems. - **Security & compliance moat**: Deploys in GovCloud and FedRAMP environments, holds SOC 2 certification, and complies with ITAR regulations — making it the trusted choice for defense, aerospace, and other highly regulated industries. - **Modern architecture**: Open API, highly configurable, and fast to deploy — a direct alternative to slow, rigid legacy MES systems. - **Traceability**: The as-built BOM (aBOM) model provides unparalleled, real-time traceability across every part, upgrade, and servicing workflow. - **AI-powered**: The platform leverages AI to optimize production, compliance, and quality. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling the platform**: Expanding the ION Factory OS to serve more advanced manufacturing sectors, including aerospace, defense, medical devices, and climate tech. - **Security & compliance leadership**: Doubling down on GovCloud, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ITAR certifications to serve the most demanding government and industry clients. - **Building the developer community**: Hiring a Product Marketing Manager focused on AI-native and developer community growth, signaling a push to make the platform more accessible and developer-friendly. - **Geographic expansion**: Opening offices and hiring in multiple US tech hubs (San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Austin) in addition to the El Segundo HQ and Los Angeles base. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as "driven, collaborative, and kind." The team values "All Owners, Data Driven, Technical, Customer-Driven, One Team, Secure, Transparent, Ambitious." They emphasize inclusion and equity, with diverse perspectives creating real value. - **Work model**: Hybrid — employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work, with flexible time on-site. - **Perks**: Free snacks and drinks, 401(K), disability and life insurance, company equity, employee stock purchase plan, performance bonuses, generous parental leave, family medical leave, dental, health, and vision insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA). - **Engineering culture**: Uses modern tech stack including Kubernetes, IoT, Amplitude, Google Analytics. The work is deeply technical and impactful — building software that powers rockets, satellites, and medical devices. - **Growth**: As a 2019 startup with 41 employees, the company is in a high-growth phase with active hiring across multiple roles, offering significant ownership and impact. - **Location**: HQ in El Segundo, CA (Los Angeles area), with hybrid offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Denver, and Austin. ## Sources 1. [firstresonance.io](https://www.firstresonance.io/) 2. [firstresonance.io/about](https://www.firstresonance.io/about) 3. [firstresonance.io/careers](https://www.firstresonance.io/careers) 4. [builtin.com/company/first-resonance](https://builtin.com/company/first-resonance) 5. 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