Director, Supplier Quality

to them, and hold them accountable for meeting those

before material ever reaches QuantumScape. As we move from R&D into high-volume commercial production and bring on strategic manufacturing partners, this leader will own a seamless quality handoff with those partners. We are looking for a proven track record applying lean principles to supplier quality – someone who thinks in terms of waste elimination, flow, and prevention, not inspection. If you have driven measurable supplier quality improvements at scale in regulated, high-volume manufacturing, we’d like to hear from you.

As Director, Supplier Quality, you will own the supplier quality function end-to-end – from supplier selection and qualification through PPAP, incoming quality control, and ongoing supplier performance management. You will bring lean and waste-elimination discipline as the operating logic of the function: every dollar of scrap, every hour of sort and rework, and every incoming inspection we can retire because a supplier owns quality at its source is a direct unlock for getting more shippable output from the same headcount and infrastructure. You will partner tightly with Manufacturing Quality – whose Product Quality & Reliability characterization and specs define what good looks like – to translate those specs into supplier and floor requirements, and with Supply Chain to make quality a first-class criterion in sourcing decisions. Critically, you will be a culture leader who installs operational discipline at our suppliers and inside your own team, shifting from detection to prevention and from status reporting to problem solving, and you will do it through clear, concise, direct communication that drives alignment and makes ownership unambiguous at every handoff.

(defined with Manufacturing Quality from Product Quality & Reliability characterization) so suppliers own conformance before material ships, not QuantumScape at receiving

• ✓Apply lean and waste-elimination discipline across the supplier base – attacking material and labor waste (scrap, sort, rework, expedites, over-inspection) and giving suppliers and the floor clear, real-time guardrails on which defects matter and which levers move the needle
• ✓Lead upstream particle and contamination control at the source – critical for solid-state cell manufacturing – and hold suppliers to zero-defect expectations on critical characteristics
• ✓Own a seamless supplier and manufacturing-partner quality handoff as QuantumScape scales into high-volume commercial production and IFM/partner transitions – ensuring continuity of quality acceptance and clear ownership through every transition
• ✓Partner with Supply Chain to make quality a first-class criterion in supplier selection and strategic sourcing, and with Manufacturing Operations on the planned transition of IQC execution into the line organization
• ✓Establish and report supplier quality metrics (PPM, cost of poor quality, supplier scorecards, containment and 8D closure) that connect to corporate priorities (Reliability, Product, Gen 2 Readiness, Commercial, Finance) and tie directly to yield, scrap, and shippable output
• ✓Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of supplier quality engineers – creating clear ownership at every handoff and growing people through t