Technical Program Manager

Prevail Recruiting; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Prevail Recruiting partners with an early-stage energy hardware company to hire a hands-on Technical Program Manager who will own the master product roadmap and build the systems that keep multiple hardware programs moving. This is more than project coordination.

You’ll connect engineering execution to customer commitments, make sequencing and resource tradeoffs, and build AI-enabled tools that improve visibility while reducing administrative work.

Qualifications

• Track record owning complex hardware roadmaps and delivery commitments.
• Experience bringing physical products through prototyping, pilot builds, new product introduction, and production transition with supplier constraints.
• Demonstrated hands-on AI and automation experience.
• Ability to influence senior engineers without formal authority and create structure in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap and maintain an integrated plan across hardware programs.
• Build the engineering operating cadence with focused planning and reviews.
• Create AI-powered tools and workflows including self-updating dashboards and automated reporting.
• Drive hardware execution and surface risks early across mechanical, electrical, firmware, supplier, and manufacturing domains.
• Communicate delivery dates, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to leadership clearly.

Skills

Hardware roadmap ownership

AI/Automation experience

Influence without authority

Dashboard/tool creation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Dashboards

Automated reporting

Job description

Prevail Recruiting is partnering with an early-stage energy hardware company seeking a hands-on Technical Program Manager to own the master product roadmap and build the systems that keep multiple hardware programs moving.

This is more than project coordination. You’ll connect engineering execution to customer commitments, make sequencing and resource tradeoffs, and build AI-enabled tools that improve visibility while reducing administrative work.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports. You’ll lead through influence, technical credibility, and clear accountability.

What You’ll Do

• Own the product roadmap. Maintain an integrated plan across hardware programs, including milestones, dependencies, resource priorities, and customer-facing commitments.
• Build the engineering operating cadence. Establish focused planning and review routines that produce decisions, clear owners, and follow-through—not just status updates.
• Create AI-powered tools and workflows. Build self-updating dashboards, automated reporting, and integrations that connect project-management and engineering systems.
• Drive hardware execution and surface risks early. Navigate mechanical, electrical, firmware, supplier, and manufacturing dependencies from prototype through pilot and production transition. Identify potential delays and develop mitigation plans before they become emergencies.
• Communicate clearly with leadership. Translate technical complexity into concise updates on delivery dates, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions needed.

What You’ll Bring

• A track record of personally owning complex hardware roadmaps and delivery commitments—not simply maintaining schedules set by others.
• Experience bringing physical products through prototyping, pilot builds, new product introduction, and production transition, including supplier constraints, testing failures, and system integration.
• Demonstrated hands-on AI and automation experience. You’ve personally built workflows, scripts, dashboards, integrations, or lightweight tools and can explain how they worked and what they improved.
• The ability to influence senior engineers without formal authority, make practical tradeoffs, and create structure in a fast-moving environment.

Why Join

Work directly with executive and engineering leadership while shaping how a hardware company plans, builds, and delivers products. Rather than inherit an established project-management function, you’ll own the roadmap and build the tools and operating discipline that help a lean engineering team move faster.