Responsibilities: • Own commercial relationships with Mouser, DigiKey, Arrow, Avnet, Element14/Newark, Future Electronics, TME, LCSC, Rutronik, and the broader online distribution ecosystem • Negotiate and sign best-price contracts, API access agreements, volume rebates, and payment terms • Manage existing integrations (Nexar/Octopart, Mouser, DigiKey, TME, Element14, Unikey IC, LCSC) and onboard new ones online • Build and manage our direct supplier network across Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Hsinchu • Vet and onboard authorized agents, franchised distributors, and independent stocking partners — with clear guardrails on counterfeit risk, traceability, and quality • Negotiate framework agreements that let our AI agents pull live offers in real time • Define the sourcing rules our AI agents follow — supplier tiers, quality criteria, blacklists, lead-time tolerances, alternate-part logic, and risk thresholds • Work hand-in-hand with engineering and product to encode supply chain jud...