Engineering Program Manager

Engineering Program Manager
Location: Brooklyn, NY | Compensation: $110,000 to $130,000 | Full-Time | On-Site

About Craighill
Craighill is a Brooklyn-based design studio and brand creating enduring, beautiful, and useful objects for everyday life. Rooted in curiosity and craftsmanship, we design and produce products that celebrate material, process, and enduring quality.

We work with manufacturing partners around the world to bring our designs to life at a level of craft that sets us apart. We're independent, founder-owned and growing quickly, and we're building a company whose objects last for generations.

Role Overview
As our first Engineering Program Manager, you'll own the delivery of our product programs from kickoff through mass production, across a launch calendar of around ten new products a year. Most are metal objects with precise mechanisms and finishes and only feel right when the tolerances are held.

You'll bring a mechanical engineering background and use it to spot risks in each design that could delay the schedule or hurt product quality. You'll also champion each program's design goals, starting with understanding what a designer is trying to achieve and why. You'll carry those goals through every stage of the program and hold the team to them. You'll lead across the team by raising problems as soon as you see them, delivering hard news with options, and seeing issues through until they're solved.

Success means products that hit their build dates, quality, and cost targets, with their design goals intact. You'll report to Hunter Craighill, co-founder and Chief Design Officer.
You'll be the first person in this role at Craighill, working directly with both co-founders, and the role will grow as we continue to build out our product development teams.

Key Responsibilities
Drive execution of product programs against technical and business goals
Own development schedules, decision milestones, dependencies and critical paths
Champion mechanical design requirements, so our factories build to our tolerances and specifications
Coordinate design, engineering, operations, marketing and factory partners from kickoff
Lead prototype and build phases (EVT, DVT and PVT), including component readiness and validation
Identify technical, material and logistics risks and drive them to resolution
Manage program budgets, scope changes and product cost against target
Oversee the timely release of parts and final designs
Report program status, risks and decisions to the team and leadership each week
Improve the product development process used by the internal and external teams

Minimum Qualifications
BS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
5+ years bringing physical consumer products from prototype to mass production, including program leadership
Hands-on experience driving factory partners, ideally in China, through engineering and production builds
Strong grasp of tolerances, materials and manufacturing processes
Candor, sound judgment and clear, concise writing
Ability to travel internationally up to 15% of the year

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with metal parts and finishes, such as machining, casting, plating or anodizing
Experience building process at a small company or startup
Curiosity about how things are made, and a love for well-designed objects

Pay and Benefits
Base salary of $110,000 to $130,000, depending on experience
Health, dental and vision insurance, 20 days of paid time off, and a 401(k) plan

How to Apply
To apply, please send the following to View email address on click.appcast.io:

Resume
Cover letter
2 professional references
Salary request
Describe a product you helped bring to production: what went wrong, what you did about it, and how it turned out