About Quilt

Quilt's company mission is to move humanity off of fossil fuel heating. 20% of US global warming emissions come from homes (that's more than cars!). 

The Role

In the past year, we have seen considerable demand growth from both homeowners and distribution partners. We're scaling across North America and have established distribution across 25+ US states & Canadian provinces.

This is a new and critical role. Quilt has proven its product and its market. The next chapter is about building the operational engine that delivers reliably, efficiently, and at scale. The operational challenges ahead are as significant as the opportunity.

As VP, Operations, you will be responsible for end-to-end manufacturing, fulfillment and delivery of Quilt hardware, ensuring that every step meets the high quality bar we have set for our brand while driving down costs and unlocking efficiencies. 

What You'll Own

Supply Chain & Procurement

You will own upstream component sourcing and vendor management for our contract manufacturing partners. This includes sourcing strategy, supplier relationships, cost negotiations, component quality, and supply continuity planning. You will work closely with our hardware engineering team to manage BOMs, qualify new suppliers, and ensure that our contract manufacturers build high-quality, cost-effective products at increasing volume.

Manufacturing Operations

You will oversee production execution, quality systems, inventory management, and capacity planning. You’ll partner closely with our hardware engineering team to ensure smooth handoffs from design to production. You will drive continuous improvement in yield, cost, and cycle time while managing CM relationships and manufacturing strategy.

You'll own everything required to move finished units from our contract manufacturers to our customers — and back, when needed. This means managing 3PL warehousing, freight forwarding, last-mile delivery, and reverse logistics. It also includes our parts and warranty returns program. You'll build the team, vendor relationships, processes, and systems to make this function reliable and cost-efficient as unit volume scales across North America.

You've scaled a physical product operation. You have direct experience scaling manufacturing, supply chain, and field operations for a hardware or physical product company — ideally in home services, consumer electronics, solar, or adjacent spaces. You understand the difference between building a prototype and building the ten-thousandth unit reliably. You've managed complex supplier relationships, navigated sourcing challenges, and ensured continuity of supply for a manufactured product. You've dealt with the realities of hardware — lead times, MOQs, tariffs, quality escapes, single-source risk — and you find them satisfying to solve.

You are a builder. We're not hiring you to optimize a mature operation. We're hiring you to build operational infrastructure that doesn't fully exist yet to enable our future growth. You're energized by standing up new functions, hiring teams, implementing systems, and creating order out of ambiguity.

You're hands-on. This is not a "hire a team and steer strategy" role — everyone at Quilt is a doer. You jump between the tactical and strategic: building models, writing the docs, making the phone calls, visiting the sites. You take full ownership of outcomes, leading from the front and diving into the details to ensure results are delivered.

You lead effectively across functions. You know that operational excellence at a hardware company isn't built in a silo. You're a credible partner to Hardware Engineering, Finance, Go-to-Market, and other teams — able to speak their language, align competing priorities, and drive decisions that balance product quality, unit economics, and channel commitments.

• 15+ years in operations, supply chain, manufacturing, or a related function, with at least 3–5 years in a senior leadership role.


• Direct experience at a growth-stage hardware or physical product company.


• Experience managing logistics operations — 3PL relationships, freight, warehousing, reverse logistics — across a multi-state or national footprint is strongly preferred.


• Experience in HVAC, home energy, building systems, solar, or related industries is a significant plus but not required — we'll trade domain knowledge for operational excellence.


• Experience in a venture-backed startup environment where you've built functions from early stages.

Base salary for this role is $240K-$270K, depending on experience. Compensation includes meaningful equity commensurate with a senior leadership role. Quilt also offers strong, competitive benefits typical of a Series B company.