Technical Program Manager

As Lead Technical Program Manager at Channing Street Copper, you will play a crucial role in developing equipment and processes for cutting-edge energy storage equipped appliances. You will use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

We value a diverse workplace and are assembling our team to match these values at this early stage. We especially welcome different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and strongly encourage people of all ethnic backgrounds and genders to apply. 

This is a full-time position and is expected to be in-office 4 days per week with 1 day flexible for in-office or remote work. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA.

What You'll Do

• Drive programs from product definition and technology development through delivery

• Create hardware and software project schedules that align with product requirements, technical challenges, tooling lead-times, and business needs

• Establish a cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and resources

• Proactively identify and highlight critical-path dependencies, risks, and opportunities to accelerate projects

• Communicate overall engagement, project status, and risk clearly to internal management, calling out key issues

• Refine program management tools and processes, with a focus on purpose and value

• Cultivate strong, collaborative relationships and promote an encouraging program team environment

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in engineering or physical sciences

• 5+ years of hardware program management or similar experience. 

• Experienced in establishing and effectively using a variety of Gantt, collaboration, and communication tools

• Excellent project management skills including planning, communicating with stakeholders, setting expectations, problem-solving, and prioritizing

• Demonstrated strong conceptual and planning skills to analyze projects of broad and diverse scope

• Skilled at risk identification and mitigation across hardware and software

• Strong motivational leadership skills

Bonus Skills

• Experience leading blended hardware and software programs in the automotive, battery, consumer electronics, or IoT industries

• Experience establishing decision-making frameworks for managing program life cycles, including deep knowledge of stage-gate methodology

• Experience bringing together cross-functional needs and expectations, gaining and maintaining cross-functional stakeholder support, and closing gaps in differences to drive alignment

• Proficient with materials planning and lead times for hardware builds

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $109,000 - $136,000 per year. We are committed to equitable compensation, and we offer a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need. We cover 100% of the premiums for our employees and 50% of the premiums for their dependents on our base plans for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We offer a 401(k) plan for employees to contribute to, in addition to many other benefits. Every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 16 weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment (eight weeks through Channing Copper and eight weeks CA Paid Family Leave). 

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our products. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

About Us

Channing Copper's vision is a future where every home is electrified with abundant clean energy. Our mission is to make decarbonization accessible to everyone by selling electric home appliances that enrich their daily lives. We're reducing the cost of electrification by integrating batteries into household appliances, starting with the stove. Our work has been funded by the Department of Energy, in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and increase energy resilience with products that are high-performance, safe, intuitive, and robust. As we build our team and pursue our mission, we do it with a strong sense of our core values because it's not just what you do, it's how you do it. You'll see this in high-level decisions, how we run meetings, our day-to-day work, hiring, and our interactions with customers and the broader community. We intend to have a massive impact on our team, our neighborhood, and the world.