Salary Range: 120000 to 139000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, supply chain, finance, product, manufacturing, and quality to ensure seamless project execution.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks, develop contingency plans, and provide regular status updates and recommendations to stakeholders across the company.
• Create and maintain detailed project timelines and plans, considering workflow interdependencies.
• Manage and execute programs end-to-end, escalating decisions when necessary, and balancing constraints across stakeholders.
• Develop templates, workflows, and processes tailored to the team’s needs.
• Recommend program, product, engineering, strategy, and operational changes as needed.
• Consistently document outcomes and decisions, and effectively communicate them to affected teams.
• Foster collaboration, build trust, break down silos, and gain buy-in across the company.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to other team members fostering professional growth as a senior member of Program Management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent professional exposure.
• Minimum of 8 years of total experience, including 5+ years of professional experience in technical program management or equivalent, and 3-5 years of experience as a technical hardware contributor or equivalent.
• Strong track record of successfully managing large cross-functional hardware projects from concept to launch.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, collaboration skills, and the ability to present complex technical problems to executive leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills applicable in both technical and non-technical areas.
• Demonstrated ability to lead high-complexity projects with large, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment with various levels of ambiguity.
• Proficiency in grasping complex technical topics and abstracting key issues and risks into actionable forms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Mechanical Engineering degree
• Experience working in the automotive industry  and vehicle is advantageous
• Mechanical Engineering in chassis design and composite design is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with Industrial Design teams is beneficial.
• Previous experience at a startup involved in launching consumer products to market is desirable.

Equity

• Lightship compensation consists of the yearly salary above plus equity, which gives you a stake in the company.