Industrial & Manufacturing Executive Roles
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role across discrete and process manufacturers, industrial equipment OEMs, and supply-chain platforms.
Tier breakdown
6
Founder49
C-Suite222
VP9
Sr Director71
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Industrial & Manufacturing industry covers the broad industrial economy: discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles, durable goods), process manufacturers (chemicals, food, pulp and paper), industrial equipment OEMs, factory automation suppliers, and large supply-chain leaders.
Industrial is heavily onsite. Executive remote policy in this industry skews ~65% onsite, 25% hybrid, 10% remote. Plant General Managers, VP Manufacturing, and CSCO seats are anchored to specific manufacturing footprints. The classifier surfaces remote-friendly corporate seats (often CFO, CTO, CHRO) explicitly so candidates can filter accurately.
Functions over-represented in Industrial & Manufacturing: COO/Operations (multi-plant ownership), Supply Chain (CSCO, VP Procurement, Director Supply Chain), and CTO/Engineering (industrial engineering, automation, IIoT). Director-tier in this industry frequently runs a single plant or major sub-function — real exec scope despite the title prefix.
Sample Jobs (10 of 357)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Embodied AI Apptronik Lead AI strategy and controls for humanoid robots at Apptronik, focusing on AI strategy, controls stack unification, model development, and data collection. VP | Austin, TX Onsite |
| Strategic Partner Business Lead Augury Manage strategic reseller partnerships, focusing on strategy, go-to-market execution, and revenue performance. VP | United States Remote |
| Head of Industrial Engineering Quantum Systems Responsible for leading Industrialization & Transfer to Serial Production and Engineering Change & Documentation Management. Requires a degree in a related field and 7+ years of experience. VP | Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine Onsite |
| Managing Director ... global technology and manufacturing company Lead business strategy and operations in a global technology and manufacturing company. Drive revenue growth and business transformation. VP | Warsaw, Masovia Unknown |
| Group Lead 2 Reliance Industries Limited The Group Lead # Research Scientist is responsible for setting the strategic direction of research programs and leading multiple teams to deliver high-impact innovation aligned with business goals. The role involves driving technology development from concept to commercialization, solving complex and cross-functional challenges, and building strong technical capabilities within the organization. VP | Navi Mumbai Onsite |
| Director of HR Operations ... Solomon Page Seeking an experienced Director of HR Operations for a client in the manufacturing and consumer products industry. Responsible for strategic and operational leadership across HR processes, employee relations, compliance, and total rewards. Director | Austin, TX Hybrid |
| CFO ... A股上市公司 The CFO will be responsible for strategic financial management, international business financial management, and team building at a publicly listed company in Beijing, China. C-Suite | Beijing, China Onsite |
| Field Marketing Director MISUMI Americas Lead field marketing strategy and execution for MISUMI Americas, driving demand generation, brand authority, and customer engagement. Director | Oakland, CA Hybrid |
| Large Enterprise Account Director Factbird Lead high-stakes enterprise deals, create opportunities, build strategies, and expand Factbird's presence in global manufacturing networks. Director | United States Remote |
| Operations Director - Process Industry Business ... leading player in the circular economy Strategic leadership role in a company focused on the circular economy, managing operations across two sites, and driving performance in an industrial manufacturing environment. VP | Bergamo, Lombardy Onsite |
How classification gets to this category
Industrial & Manufacturing industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with industrial-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is identified via NAICS codes (31–33 for manufacturing, 423–424 for industrial wholesalers), product-category signals, and a curated allowlist of OEMs and large industrial holding companies.
- Discrete vs. process tagging. The classifier separates discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles) from process manufacturers (chemicals, food, materials) — different exec-team composition and different remote-policy distributions. Sub-tags surface as filter facets.
- JD signals for boundary cases. GPT reads the job description for industrial-specific signals (plant references, lean/six-sigma vocabulary, BOM and SKU-count language, ERP system references like SAP or Oracle Manufacturing) when the company allowlist is ambiguous. Editorial review catches diversified industrials with non-manufacturing divisions. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier explicitly excludes from Industrial & Manufacturing: pure consumer-goods brands without owned manufacturing (these are Consumer Goods), industrial-software-only companies (Technology), and aerospace primes classified separately under Aerospace.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Industrial & Manufacturing is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Industrial + Supply Chain and your inbox shows industrial CSCO, VP Supply Chain, and Director Supply Chain seats only — not every Industrial role regardless of function, and not every Supply Chain role across the platform. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only Director-tier and above Industrial roles — capturing single-plant Plant GMs and Director Engineering seats — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only for pure C-suite Industrial seats. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
Remote mix