Company Description:
Role: The Associate, Founder's Office (Technology & Operations) will work directly with the Co-founder and CTO across programme management, supply chain, manufacturing coordination, regulatory tracking and product support. The mandate is deliberately broad and is set by the priorities of the technology organisation. Direct CTO and senior leadership exposure; a explicit path to a programme management or manufacturing operations leadership role. Makers Hive is the company that invented KalArm, India's first fully functional bionic hand, designed and manufactured in India under an ISO 13485:2016 quality system. The company runs four hardware programmes in parallel across bionic prosthetics, assistive devices and dexterous robotics, manufactured in-house in Hyderabad.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Programme management
Maintain a single integrated view of all product programmes covering milestones, dependencies and critical path; run the weekly programme review; surface and escalate slippage in the week in which it occurs.
Supply chain coordination
Track long-lead items and bill-of-material changes; follow up with vendors on open commitments; coordinate inward, quality and import escalations. Commercial negotiation remains with the operations function.
Regulatory and certification tracking
Maintain the regulatory and certification calendar as a live document with named owners and dates; coordinate documentation across engineering, quality and external consultants.
Manufacturing and delivery coordination
Maintain the production plan against the order book; coordinate between the commercial and operations functions on delivery commitments, capacity and dispatch.
Product and engineering support
Prepare the analysis behind product, sourcing and make-versus-buy decisions; maintain technical documentation and decision records; support hiring and onboarding across the engineering organisation.
Special projects
Execute cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the CTO,