Senior Technical Program Manager, Manufacturing

As the Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Manufacturing, you will be the primary bridge between Product Development (PD) and Global Manufacturing Operations. You are the single point of contact for all manufacturing process development and deployment within the PD program. Your mission is to ensure that every piece of custom automation, tooling, and test equipment is designed, validated, and deployed on time to meet aggressive product launch milestones.This is a US Hybrid (3 days per week) role based in our San Francisco, California office.

• →Program Single Point of Contact (SPOC): Act as the lead representative for Manufacturing Engineering in all PD program forums.
• →Cross-Functional Orchestration: Work in lockstep with Operations Program Managers (OPMs) and Engineering Program Managers (EPMs) to align equipment schedules with the master product schedule. Bring diverse teams together to tackle complex problems and work towards closure.
• →Understand and collaborate in developing the Plan of Record (POR), ensuring qualification plans, checklists and specifications are in place to support production release.
• →Equipment Lifecycle Management: Drive the end-to-end development of manufacturing equipment, from initial requirements gathering and vendor selection (RFQs) to Final Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT).
• →Risk Mitigation: Identify technical bottlenecks in the manufacturing process early in the design phase. Proactively manage dependencies between hardware design changes and equipment capability.
• →Change Management: Manage changes impacting Manufacturing area to understand change impact and deployment planning.
• →Deployment & Scaling: Oversee the installation and bring-up of manufacturing lines at global sites, ensuring equipment meets yield, cycle time, and reliability targets.
• →Budget & Resource Tracking: Manage CAPEX/OPEX budgets for manufacturing development and ensure resources are allocated to the highest-priority program workstreams.
• →What good looks like in 6 months:
• →You are the recognized manufacturing voice in PD program forums for at least one active NPI program, and program leads come to you first for manufacturing readiness status.
• →You have built an integrated equipment and process schedule (automation, tooling, and test) tied to the master product schedule, with clear owners, dependencies, and critical path.
• →You have established a regular reporting cadence with KPIs (schedule, FAT/SAT status, yield and cycle-time readiness, CAPEX spend) that leadership relies on.
• →Key equipment vendors and CM teams know you as their point of escalation, and you have driven at least one major technical risk to closure ahead of a build milestone.
• →A change-management process for design changes that impact manufacturing is in place and used by Engineering and Operations.

This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office.

• Experience: 7+ years of technical project management experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment (Consumer Electronics, preferred).
• Technical knowledge: Strong understanding of Mechanical/Electrical engineering principles and the New Product Introduction (NPI) process.
• Communication: Proven ability to translate complex technical constraints into actionable project plans for non-technical stakeholders. Experience of how to report on the whole and divide the whole into easily understandable sub-entities and KPIs.
• Vendor Management: Experience managing global equipment vendors and Contract Manufacturers (CMs).
• Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Possibility and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

• Experience with wearable, miniaturized, or high-precision consumer electronics manufacturing.
• Experience running programs for custom automation, fixtures, and test equipment from concept through FAT/SAT and production ramp.
• Familiarity with MES systems, production data dashboards, or smart manufacturing tools.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program management certification.