• Ownership of overall commercial relationship, sourcing strategy, and engagement model definition (ODM/JDM/CM) for Google Hardware manufacturing partners, with oversight of Wearables and Smart Home (Nest) programs. Led contract negotiations, managed supplier selection process, and assessed commercial risk factors.

• Collaborated with product, engineering and operations teams to meet new product launch schedule, develop process efficiencies, and drive down total development cost and unit economics. Facilitated QBR sessions with strategic partners, driving supplier performance on key supply chain metrics.

• Designed internal playbooks to improve and scale working model with supply partners. Swiftly tackled supply risk mitigation initiatives such as tariff avoidance and Covid-19 operating constraints.