Principal TPM, New Product Development (Hardware)

Tract Capital Management; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K

Paid holidays

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Tract Capital is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager, New Product Development to lead complex hardware product programs for data center infrastructure. You will partner with Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations to drive products from concept through design, validation, pilot, launch, and scaled production.

You will own integrated program strategy, governance, schedules, risks, and decision frameworks to ensure manufacturability, cost, safety, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field required.
• 5+ years leading manufacturing strategy, process development, or production scale‑up for complex hardware products.
• 10+ years of manufacturing, operations, industrialization, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Proven experience with manufacturing footprint decisions, automation strategies, contract manufacturing, OEM partnerships, and production system design.
• Experience launching products from prototype or pilot production into volume manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Define end‑to‑end manufacturing strategy, including make‑vs‑buy decisions, manufacturing footprint, partner selection, capacity planning, and regional deployment strategy.
• Establish manufacturing methods, tooling, fixtures, test systems, production flows, and equipment strategies.
• Lead adoption of robotics, automation, machine vision, digital work instructions, and data‑driven process controls.
• Build production systems that achieve throughput, cycle time, labor efficiency, and capacity targets.
• Define manufacturing quality strategies, in‑process controls, testing requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead relationships with contract manufacturers, OEMs, integrators, equipment suppliers, and automation partners.
• Serve as the manufacturing leader across Product Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Program Management, Operations, and Customer Delivery.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Production scale-up

Supplier partnerships

Quality improvement

Product launches

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field

Master’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or Business

Job description

Tract Capital is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager, New Product Development to lead complex hardware product programs for data center infrastructure. You will partner with Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations to drive products from concept through design, validation, pilot, launch, and scaled production.

You will own integrated program strategy, governance, schedules, risks, and decision frameworks to ensure manufacturability, cost, safety, and