Project Manager (All Levels)

Motivo Engineering, LLC; California (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High-quality insurance

401(k) match

Generous vacation time

Profit-sharing bonuses

Monday–Thursday 4/10 workweek

Job summary

Motivo Engineering, LLC is seeking passionate Project and Product Managers in California to join our dynamic team. This role involves working on fast-paced product development projects across various sectors including automotive and aerospace, ensuring close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

Candidates will manage project plans and communicate effectively with clients and internal teams. The position offers a competitive salary range and valuable benefits including a 401(k) match and profit-sharing bonuses.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts clearly.
• Experience with embedded hardware and controls development is a strong plus.
• Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with evolving scope.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead client-facing hardware development projects.
• Translate client needs into clear technical objectives.
• Manage project plans, timelines, budgets, and resources.

Skills

Understanding of hardware product development

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Experience managing technical risk

Comfort in fast-paced environments

Ability to manage multiple projects

Experience working in multidisciplinary teams

Job description

About this position

Motivo is looking for passionate Project and Product Managers across multiple experience levels to join our team. We work on clean-sheet, fast-paced product development projects across automotive, robotics, aerospace, and clean energy. Projects move quickly, often weeks or months, not years, and require close collaboration between clients and tightly integrated, multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Depending on role and experience, team members may focus on delivery execution, client-facing program leadership, or full-lifecycle product ownership. All roles require comfort operating in ambiguity, strong communication skills, and the ability to balance technical, schedule, and business constraints while driving projects forward.

We’re looking for leaders who create alignment, build trust, keep projects on track, and put clients' needs at the forefront.

What You’ll Do

• Support and/or lead client-facing hardware development projects from initiation to completion
• Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, software, and industrial design teams
• Translate client needs into clear technical objectives, schedules, and deliverables
• Manage project plans, timelines, budgets, and resources in a dynamic environment
• Communicate project status, risks, and next steps to internal teams and clients
• Help resolve technical, schedule, and interpersonal conflicts with a calm, solutions-oriented approac h
• Balance scope, cost, schedule, and performance tradeoffs
• Thrive in environments with evolving client needs and figure-it-out requirements

Capabilities & Skills (Varies by role)

• Understanding of hardware product development and system integration across mechanical, electrical, software, and industrial design domains
• Ability to apply agile methodologies to both hardware and software development
• Experience with embedded hardware and controls development (strong plus)
• Strong communication skills to convey technical concepts clearly to engineers and clients
• Experience managing technical risk, cost, schedule, and performance tradeoffs
• Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with evolving scope
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
• Experience working with tightly integrated multidisciplinary teams (professional or academic—Formula SAE, Solar Car, etc.)

We’re convinced that the team and the projects are hands-down the best part of working at Motivo. To support that, we offer a solid benefits package, including high-quality insurance, a 401(k) match, generous vacation time, and our Monday–Thursday 4/10 workweek. We offer profit-sharing bonuses, which are tied to overall company performance, because we believe in winning together; we’re transparent about the company’s numbers, and when our hard work drives financial success, employees may share in the upside.

Associate Project Manager Base Salary Range: $70,000 – $100,000
Technical Project Manager / Product Manager Base Salary Range: $100,000 – $115,000
Senior Technical Project Manager / Product Manager Base Salary Range: $115,000 - $130,000

Salary is dependent on experience, knowledge, and interview performance.