Supply Chain Systems Product Manager

ABOUT SLATE

At Slate, we’re building safe, reliable vehicles that people can afford, personalize and love—and doing it here in the USA as part of our commitment to reindustrialization. The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate, because people should have control over how their trucks look, feel, and represent them.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As Supply Chain Systems Product Manager at Slate, you will own the product layer for warehouse management and transportation management at Slate, the systems that take inbound parts from the dock to the line and outbound vehicles from the plant to the customer. You will partner with supply chain leadership to build Slate’s WMS capability today and lead the definition of Slate’s TMS capability for tomorrow, designing the integrations, workflows, and discipline the supply chain runs on as Slate scales from launch through global OEM operations.

This is a hands-on product role. You will live with the receivers, pickers, planners, and dispatchers who run the warehouse and the freight network, and you will translate what you learn from each into the integration architecture, the workflows, and the user experience the supply chain organization uses. You will own the supply chain systems product backlog through configuration, testing, training, cutover, and steady-state operation, and you will lead the strategic work that gets Slate from a defined TMS need to a deployed TMS capability.

The Supply Chain Systems Product Manager reports directly to the Head of Enterprise Systems.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

• Own the WMS Build: Lead the product roadmap for Slate’s WMS capability across plants, DCs, and satellite locations, including inbound receiving, put-away, slotting, inventory management, picking, packing, shipping, and yard management.

• Define the TMS Capability: Lead the discovery and definition of Slate’s transportation management capability, including requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, business case, and the roadmap that gets Slate from a defined need to a deployed system.

• Architect WMS and TMS Integration: Design the integrations that connect warehouse and transportation management to the ERP financial layer, the MES production layer, and the carrier and 3PL ecosystem, ensuring inventory accuracy and end-to-end traceability across the supply chain.

• Design Inbound and Outbound Workflows: Define the user experience and operational workflows for warehouse operators, planners, dispatchers, and carriers, prioritizing system-driven execution over operator-level decision-making.

• Partner with Supply Chain Leadership: Be the primary product partner to the Head of Supply Chain, plant logistics leaders, and the carrier and 3PL ecosystem, translating supply chain priorities into platform capability.

• Drive Product Discovery: Live with the receivers, pickers, shippers, planners, and dispatchers who use these systems, surface the friction, and translate it into a backlog of high-leverage improvements.

• Deliver End to End: Own the product from discovery through configuration, testing, training, cutover, and steady-state operation for new sites, new flows, and new capabilities as Slate scales.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Supply Chain, or a related field is required.

• Experience: 15+ years of product management, technical program management, or solutions architecture experience delivering enterprise WMS, TMS, and supply chain systems in manufacturing or distribution environments.

• WMS Mastery: Direct hands-on experience leading enterprise WMS implementations end to end, including inbound, outbound, yard, slotting, wave management, LPN and lot or batch handling, and integration with ERP and MES.

• TMS Fluency: Working knowledge of enterprise TMS capabilities, including carrier management, freight tendering, shipment optimization, multi-leg shipment scenarios, and EDI or API carrier integrations.

• SCM Integration Experience: Track record designing WMS and TMS integrations across the ERP, MES, and order management stack, including item master, inventory, sales order, and shipment flows.

• Warehouse Operations Depth: Direct exposure to the shop floor of the warehouse, comfortable working with operators, planners, and dispatchers in their environment, with credibility built on time spent on the dock.

• Product Discipline: Experience running product discovery, roadmap planning, and backlog management in an agile environment, with the instincts to balance user research against delivery pace.

• Systems Thinker: You see the company as a series of interconnected loops. You understand how a delay at the inbound dock ripples through inventory, manufacturing, and ultimately the customer’s delivery date.

• Pragmatic Builder: You know that “perfect is the enemy of shipped.” You can stand up a minimum viable WMS today while architecting for the freight, fleet, and network scale Slate will need at OEM operations tomorrow.

• Diplomat: You are skilled at managing stakeholders with competing priorities, including the productive tension between supply chain teams that want speed and operators who need workflows that do not break.

• Operations Translator: You are bilingual between warehouse and transportation operators and the systems that orchestrate them, equally credible explaining a slotting rule to a forklift driver and a wave strategy to a planner.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Must have the ability to travel (up to 25%).

• Must have the ability to lift up to 35 pounds.

• Must have the ability to stand, walk, and perform repetitive tasks for extended periods.

Salary Range

The compensation  for this position is the range Slate reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; work location; and other relevant business and organizational factors.

Base Pay Range (Annual)

$108,877.00 - $163,316.00 USD

Additional Compensation and Benefits: Slate offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in the equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs.  

WHY JOIN TEAM SLATE?

At Slate, we’re fueled by grit, determination, and attention to detail. The start-up spirit of ingenuity and resourcefulness move our business forward. Team Slate fosters a culture of excellence, innovation, and mutual respect, and is motivated by shared principles.

• Safety First

• Delight Customers

• One Team

• Relentless Improvement

• Fast, Frugal, and Scrappy

• Respectful Collaboration

• Positive Legacy

WE WANT TO WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT REFLECT THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH WE OPERATE.

Slate is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason.

Slate is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at

slate-talent_acquisition@slate.auto.