Lead Technical Program Manager — Modular Housing Systems

Samara Living Inc.; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Samara Living Inc. in Redwood City, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead the delivery of new products across design, engineering, and manufacturing.

You will own schedules, budgets, risk, and reporting through phase gates, building a single plan with cross-functional teams from concept to site deployment. This role requires strong communication, data-driven tracking, and comfort on factory floors and job sites as you help shape Samara’s program management standards as the function

Qualifications

• 3 to 8 years of program management experience on complex physical products or comparable environment.
• BS/MS in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, architecture, construction management, or related discipline (or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ownership of schedule, budget, and risk through phase-gate development from early design to production/construction.
• Experience carrying builds from prototype through production with clear-to-build reviews, change control, and issue tracking to closure.
• Ability to read drawings and understand tradeoffs across structural, MEP, and envelope systems without owning the technical solution.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated program schedule from feasibility through production release, including gate dates and critical path.
• Lead phase-gate reviews, assemble gate packages, confirm deliverables, and record decisions.
• Track program budget and report variances to leadership.
• Manage risk, issue, decision, and change logs with owners and due dates.
• Provide leadership with dashboards and weekly reviews on program health (schedule, cost, risk).
• Build the program's operating structure, including RACI and document repository.
• Coordinate design, engineering, manufacturing, factory operations, supply chain, quality, and site teams through design and readiness reviews.
• Collaborate with technical lead to sequence engineering work and surface tradeoffs affecting schedule or cost.
• Work with supply chain on material readiness and long-lead items; reflect status in schedule/risk plan.
• Lead construction administration for first article build and site deployment.
• Drive continuous improvement via post-mortems and first article reviews to update docs and processes.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Budget management

Risk management

Communication

Schedule management

Data-driven reporting

Vendor coordination

Stakeholder management

Education

BS/MS in mechanical engineering or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Project

Asana

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Job description

Samara Living Inc. in Redwood City, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead the delivery of new products across design, engineering, and manufacturing.

You will own schedules, budgets, risk, and reporting through phase gates, building a single plan with cross-functional teams from concept to site deployment. This role requires strong communication, data-driven tracking, and comfort on factory floors and job sites as you help shape Samara’s program management standards as the function