Technical Project Manager, Hardware Product Development

VEIR; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) plan

Holidays + PTO

Parental leave

Stock options

EAP

Team events

Job summary

VEIR in Woburn, MA, is seeking a Technical Project Manager to drive day-to-day execution of product development programs and to serve as the connective tissue across engineering, product management, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. You will build schedules, track deliverables, and ensure exit gates stay on track.

The role emphasizes interrogating plans, driving root cause, and recovery planning with ownership dates.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of technical project or program management experience in hardware product development.
• Outcome-oriented problem solver who is energized by hard problems.
• Has built an integrated schedule from scratch across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Familiarity with phase-gate product development and the deliverables typically required at each gate.
• Technical fluency across multiple functions—engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing—sufficient to challenge an estimate.
• Demonstrated experience driving a cross-functional team to root cause and a recovery plan after a test failure, supplier miss, or schedule slip.
• Proficiency with project management and tracking tooling (Monday.com, MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana or similar).
• Strong communicator — concise written updates, well-run meetings, and comfort driving accountability across teams.

Responsibilities

• Interrogate the plans and status you are given rather than relaying them — challenge assumptions behind dates, estimates, and readiness claims, and press until the answer holds up.
• When a test failure, supplier slip, or design issue emerges, convene the right cross-functional group immediately, drive the team to root cause, and force a credible recovery plan with named owners and dates.
• Develop and pressure-test contingency options in parallel with the primary plan, so the program has a Plan B before it needs one.
• Challenge and verify supplier and manufacturing readiness claims rather than accepting them at face value.
• Bring judgment, not just data — a status report that flags a risk without an assessment and a recommended path is an incomplete deliverable.
• Builds integrated plans with engineering, product management, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations leads real dependencies and a critical path working towards committed dates
• Track deliverables to completion across all contributing functions — engineering releases, part qualification, procurement, build readiness, test execution, and documentation.
• Maintain Exit Gate deliverable tracking for assigned programs and drive open items to closure ahead of gate reviews.
• Run program meetings that produce decisions, owners, and dates — and follow up until items are actually closed.
• Identify cross-functional interdependencies in the plan and make them explicit before they cause a slip.
• Surface emerging risks early and work with the responsible teams to develop practical mitigation options.
• Maintain the program risk and issue log; accelerate to the Principal Technical Program Manager with context and a recommended path.
• Support resource and cost forecasting for engineering, product management, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations deliverables.

Skills

Technical project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Planning & scheduling

Risk management

Root-cause analysis

Communication skills

Tools

Monday.com

MS Project

Smartsheet

Jira

Asana

Job description

VEIR in Woburn, MA, is seeking a Technical Project Manager to drive day-to-day execution of product development programs and to serve as the connective tissue across engineering, product management, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. You will build schedules, track deliverables, and ensure exit gates stay on track.

The role emphasizes interrogating plans, driving root cause, and recovery planning with ownership dates.