Senior Technical Program Manager

The Robot Age; Salem (OR); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Agility Robotics is hiring a senior technical program manager in its operations program management group. The role leads programs across engineering, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, quality, and external partners as Agility scales production.

This product-adjacent operations program role focuses on making the engineering intent behind Digit's platform survive the realities of suppliers, factories, quality systems, and production cadence.

Qualifications

• Technical program management experience with hardware, robotics, manufacturing, or operations programs.
• Ability to work across supply chain, procurement, manufacturing engineering, quality, hardware, and product.
• Strong execution, risk management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Comfort with a hybrid role centered on Agility's Salem office.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex programs at the intersection of engineering, operations, and supply chain
• Build mechanisms that help Agility move from early-stage work to running production
• Coordinate supplier, procurement, manufacturing, quality, hardware, and product dependencies
• Track program risks and decisions that affect robot production scale
• Turn ambiguous operational needs into clear program plans and ownership

Skills

Technical program management

Robotics experience

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

What the role actually is

Agility Robotics is hiring a senior technical program manager in its operations program management group. The role leads programs across engineering, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, quality, and external partners as Agility scales production.

This is a product-adjacent operations program role for humanoid robotics. It is about making the engineering intent behind Digit's platform survive the operational reality of suppliers, factories, quality systems, and production cadence.

What you would work on

• Lead complex programs at the intersection of engineering, operations, and supply chain
• Build mechanisms that help Agility move from early-stage work to running production
• Coordinate supplier, procurement, manufacturing, quality, hardware, and product dependencies
• Track program risks and decisions that affect robot production scale
• Turn ambiguous operational needs into clear program plans and ownership

What they are asking for

• Technical program management experience with hardware, robotics, manufacturing, or operations programs
• Ability to work across supply chain, procurement, manufacturing engineering, quality, hardware, and product
• Strong execution, risk management, and cross-functional leadership skills
• Comfort with a hybrid role centered on Agility's Salem office

Why this one is worth a look

For humanoids, the hard part is not only whether the robot can do the task. It is whether the company can build and support enough reliable robots for the task to matter. This role is right in that scaling problem.