Senior Hardware Engineering Program Manager

ChargePoint; Kentucky; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ChargePoint is seeking a Senior Program Manager for Hardware Engineering to lead planning and execution across electrical and mechanical hardware projects. You will coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure milestones, tooling, and testing meet requirements and on-time release to procurement.

The ideal candidate will manage program budgets, drive risk mitigation, and collaborate with product management, operations, reliability, and regulatory teams to deliver assemblies and systems that meet

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 4–8 years’ experience leading complex hardware technology projects with aggressive schedules.
• Experience leading the introduction of new technologies with product development lifecycles.
• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends.
• Outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving.
• Excellent leadership and social skills.
• Broad knowledge of project and program management methodologies.
• Experience budgeting and resource allocation for large programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware engineering programs and drive planning and execution across cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate milestones, development builds, and change requests to ensure timely releases.
• Define and drive PRDs with Product Management and manage program risks and issues.
• Communicate status regularly to stakeholders and ensure alignment with business goals.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

JIRA

Budgeting

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Equivalent work experience

Tools

JIRA

Job description

About Us

With electric vehicles expected to be nearly 30% of new vehicle sales by 2025 and more than 50% by 2040, electric mobility is becoming a reality. ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) is at the center of this revolution, powering one of the world’s leading EV charging networks and a comprehensive set of hardware, software and mobile solutions for every charging need across North America and Europe. We bring together drivers, businesses, automakers, policymakers, utilities and other stakeholders to make e-mobility a global reality.

Since our founding in 2007, ChargePoint has focused solely on making the transition to electric easy for businesses, fleets and drivers. ChargePoint offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an all-electric future and a trillion-dollar market.

At ChargePoint, we foster a positive and productive work environment by committing to live our values of Be Courageous, Charge Together, Love our Customers, Operate with Openness, and Relentlessly Pursue Awesome. These values guide how we show up every day, align, and work together to build a brighter future for all of us.

Join the team that is building the EV charging industry and make your mark on how people and goods will get everywhere they need to go, in any context, for generations to come.

Reports To

Sr. Manager, Program Management

What You Will Be Doing

ChargePoint is seeking a Senior Program Manager for Hardware Engineering to lead initiatives related to our EV charging hardware products. You will engage with cross-functional teams to drive planning and execution of engineering activities, including scheduling, deliverables, tooling/fabs, testing, and validation.

In this role, you will support the electrical and mechanical engineering teams in the product execution process. You will work with the system program management, product management, operations, engineering, reliability, and regulatory teams to ensure product deliverables are met on time and meet requirements. The Hardware EPM will coordinate and plan all engineering milestones, development builds, and change requests, ensuring the timely release of assemblies, components, and systems to procurement.

The ideal engineer is an enthusiastic problem solver who can identify issues before they become problems and is able to build and implement effective processes where they are lacking.

What You Will Bring to ChargePoint

• EPMs are responsible for the daily management through the life cycle. Must be able to define product life cycle steps and drive projects through design and development, as well as manufacturing execution
• Plan the overall program and monitor progress to make sure that milestones are being met across the various projects, and EPMs should work with Product Management to drive the closure of product requirements via a PRD
• EPMs need to develop a program schedule with identified key dependencies and get cross-functional agreement to drive the schedule from concept to OK2 ship
• EPMs manage the risks and issues that might and do arise over the course of the program life cycle, as well as take measures to correct them when they occur
• Coordinate the projects and their interdependencies between the various tasks of the projects
• Drive deliverables and align across projects in the program
• Drive all project design and manufacturing issues via JIRA
• EPMs manage the program budget and help drive the project budget at project launch
• Manage and use resources across the various projects to support the program
• EPMs should communicate program status regularly to the stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 4-8 years’ experience leading complex hardware technology projects with aggressive schedules
• Experience leading the introduction of new technologies with a proven understanding of product development lifecycles
• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends
• Outstanding critical thinking and passion for conquering what may seem to be impossible
• Excellent leadership and social skills
• Strong experience as a project manager of a large and complex project and have a broad knowledge of project and program management methodologies
• Strong leadership and managerial skills with appropriate experience as well as knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures EPMs must understand the wider objectives of the program, such as business and strategic goals