Staff Technical Program Manager, Marine Electrification

Arc; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

PTO

401(k) plan

Relocation assistance

Annual bonus

Professional development

Job summary

Arc is building a scalable platform to electrify the marine industry and is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager for Commercials to own programs from design through production and delivery.

The role centers on delivering a fleet of electric tugboats under a significant contract, managing schedule, scope, and risk while coordinating with shipyards, engineering, and supply chain at Arc's Los Angeles headquarters.

Qualifications

• 7+ years delivering complex hardware programs.
• Background in marine/shipbuilding, EV/battery, aerospace, defense, or hardware technology program management.
• Proficiency with deep program planning: building complex schedules, mapping interdependencies, and managing risk/change.
• Experience working across the sales-to-execution boundary, contributing to proposals and delivering commitments.
• Ability to communicate and persuade across engineering, manufacturing, sales, executives, and customers.
• Experience owning a vendor or build-partner relationship directly.
• ITAR-controlled information access; must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR.

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, providing schedule, risk, and execution content on their timeline.
• Pressure-testing delivery feasibility and timelines once an opportunity reaches technical qualification, coordinating cross-functional engagement to turn scope into a buildable plan.
• Owning relationships with shipyards and build partners; aligning build plans with customer commitments across Engineering and Supply Chain.
• Running the internal operating cadence for new deals and active programs, including kickoffs, milestone reviews, risk registers, change control, and executive updates.
• Synthesizing feedback from new deals to inform product roadmap, pricing, and commercial playbooks.
• Building program-management processes and tooling for Arc's Commercial business.
• Travel to partner companies to coordinate design and build activities.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Hardware programs

Proposal input

Vendor relationships

ITAR compliance

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Arc is building a scalable platform to electrify the marine industry and is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager for Commercials to own programs from design through production and delivery.

The role centers on delivering a fleet of electric tugboats under a significant contract, managing schedule, scope, and risk while coordinating with shipyards, engineering, and supply chain at Arc's Los Angeles headquarters.