Hardware Program Manager: Prototype-to-Production Leader

Base Power Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Base is building next‑generation power hardware from Austin. This role owns the program from prototype to volume production, establishing the plan, leading reviews, and ensuring on‑time delivery.

You’ll drive design through production, coordinate suppliers and contract manufacturers, secure BOM cost targets, and manage quality and throughput. The job emphasizes hands‑on, in‑person collaboration on the factory floor.

Qualifications

• You’ve personally carried a physical product from prototype to volume production.
• Able to read a schematic and a mechanical drawing, understand trade-offs, and push back with credibility.
• You’ve owned elements of a manufacturing and supply chain directly, including cost, tooling, quality, and capacity.
• You have a working knowledge of hardware testing campaigns to validate performance and reliability.
• You’d rather be on the factory floor than in a status meeting, with a strong bias for hands-on collaboration.

Responsibilities

• The program. One schedule, one critical path, one person accountable for the date. You build the plan, run the reviews, and force the decisions that keep the plan honest.
• Design through production. Drive the hardware from prototype through engineering, validation, and industrialization into volume production. Own build plans, part readiness, and design maturity down to the part number.
• Suppliers and contract manufacturers. Coordinate the sourcing of tier1-3 components, qualify vendors, plan tooling capacity, and hold both internal and external teams accountable to our program cost targets, quality requirements, and delivery schedule with quantitative measurable metrics. Own BOM cost and defend it.
• The ramp. Lead line bring-up, throughput, and yield, with a clean handoff to the teams who install in the field.
• The truth. Leadership should hear bad news from you first, early, with recovery options already defined.

Job description

Base is building next‑generation power hardware from Austin. This role owns the program from prototype to volume production, establishing the plan, leading reviews, and ensuring on‑time delivery.

You’ll drive design through production, coordinate suppliers and contract manufacturers, secure BOM cost targets, and manage quality and throughput. The job emphasizes hands‑on, in‑person collaboration on the factory floor.