Senior Technical Program Manager, Electric Marine Commercial

Arc Boat Company; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

Generous time off

Income protection

Retirement savings

Water fund

Professional development

Safety Support-

Captain training

Office perks

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Arc Boat Company in Torrance, CA seeks a Staff Technical Program Manager for Commercial to own programs from award through delivery, starting with a $160M contract to deliver a fleet of electric tugboats. You’ll manage schedule, scope, risk, and interfaces with shipyards and build partners, delivering on customer commitments on a fast, accountable cadence.

We’re looking for someone who moves fast, takes ownership, and pays attention to detail.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience delivering complex, multi-disciplinary hardware programs.
• Background in marine/shipbuilding, EV/battery, aerospace, defense, or hardware technology program management.
• Proficiency with program planning: building complex schedules, mapping interdependencies, and running risk and change management
• Experience across the sales-to-execution boundary, contributing to proposals and then delivering on the commitments made in them
• Ability to communicate and persuade across engineering, manufacturing, sales, executives, and customers
• Experience owning a vendor or build-partner relationship directly
• This position requires access to information controlled under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including ITAR (22 CFR §120.62).

Responsibilities

• Owning schedule, scope, and risk for commercial powertrain programs from design through production and delivery, starting with the electric tug program
• Partnering with commercial sales leaders to translate won deals into structured, executable programs
• Contributing delivery and performance inputs to bids, supplying the Proposal Specialist with schedule, risk, and execution content on their timeline
• Pressure-testing delivery feasibility and timelines once an opportunity reaches technical qualification, and coordinating the cross-functional engagement that turns an agreed scope into a buildable plan
• Owning the working relationship with shipyards and build partners and interfacing with Engineering and Supply Chain to align build plans
• Running the internal operating cadence for new deals and active programs, including program kickoffs, milestone reviews, risk registers, change control, and executive updates
• Synthesizing feedback from new deals and active programs to inform product roadmap, pricing, and commercial playbooks
• Building the program-management processes and tooling that Arc's Commercial business will scale on
• Travel to partner companies to coordinate design and build activities.

Skills

Program management

Hardware programs

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor management

ITAR compliance

Job description

Arc Boat Company in Torrance, CA seeks a Staff Technical Program Manager for Commercial to own programs from award through delivery, starting with a $160M contract to deliver a fleet of electric tugboats. You’ll manage schedule, scope, risk, and interfaces with shipyards and build partners, delivering on customer commitments on a fast, accountable cadence.

We’re looking for someone who moves fast, takes ownership, and pays attention to detail.