Hardware Program Manager

About Spin Spin is a fast-growing micromobility company committed to a world with clean air, liveable cities, safe streets, and widespread access to convenient, affordable transportation. If you’re searching for a top-tier career where you can make a difference and dynamically collaborate within a creative, lively environment—Spin welcomes you!

We’re passionate about transportation and technology. The work we accomplish fulfills a sense of meaning and purpose, which goes beyond the traditional dimensions of a workplace. Our products and initiatives directly influence people’s lives, which is proven by our customers' feedback.

Founded in 2017, and now a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, we have worked together with cities, campuses, community groups, and businesses to expand internationally. Even as we expand, we maintain the close feeling of a small business, with “fireside chats” chats led by our company’s founders, weekly OKR pop-up videos, music-infused presentations at our All Hands meetings, and more. During this time of working remotely, our creativity and shared goals have kept us united and bonded within our virtual community.

We are a diverse team of artists, engineers, designers, urban planners, policymakers, marketers, and operators. We believe in inclusivity and build powerful alliances to fulfill our goals and move our mission forward. Above all, we at Spin are connected by our values and #BeOrange spirit, which represents unity, purpose, passion, and creativity.

About the Role

We are looking for a hardware program manager in Taiwan to help us make the best possible vehicles. You will be responsible for developing relationships and products with our critical vendors in Taiwan. You will partner with engineering and supply chain to define schedule and deliverables and own the communication of schedule and status on a weekly basis. In your first 6 months, you will help us bring our custom technology from DVT, design verification and test, to launch and kickstart new development for the next generation. On off-the-shelf products, you will manage reliability testing at labs in Taiwan and China.

About the Team

Our team consists of people that are passionate about creating finely polished and intuitive experiences and, at the same time, obsess over performance and reliability of what we build. We challenge the status quo and strive towards finding the best way to solve problems.

We work in very small groups to keep processes and overhead low, so we have a lot of trust and accountability to perform the work required to build the best product.

Responsibilities

• Manage and communicate the schedule, budget, project goals and deliverables to your project team, including vendors, on a weekly basis.
• Build the connection between the US and vendor engineering teams.
• Facilitate technical discussions among global partners when needed for project definition or issue resolution.
• Track and elevate project risk to leadership.
• Work with electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, reliability engineers, firmware and software teams and manufacturers to deliver exceptional products.
• Guide hardware programs from feasibility through to production.
• Develop new vehicles and new features for existing vehicles.
• Oversee hardware builds with manufacturing partners.
• Develop, implement and tune processes that improve efficiency and accountability across various functions.
• Establish and champion standard methodologies of product development processes for hardware.
• Coordinate with vendor’s lab and external 3rd party labs to get products tested and supervise the labs to ensure the tests are performed. according to the reliability test conditions.
• Connect mechanical engineers in Asia and the US with technical vendor teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters degree in engineering or related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience shipping hardware products.
• Strong proponent of consumer based product development processes.
• Impeccable organizational, multi-tasking, and management skills.
• Strong multidisciplinary, technical background.
• Experience working with electrical, mechanical, firmware, software and reliability teams.
• Experience working with global organizations and US engineering teams.
• Experience collaborating with supply chain and manufacturing teams.
• Flexible, able to adapt projects to changing industry needs.
• Excellent communication skills and a great teammate.
• Willing to travel internationally up to 10% of the year (post COVID).