Product Engineering NPI Team Lead
About The Position
The NPI team takes hardware from design release to repeatable production across every product Fluidstack builds, from compute racks to medium-voltage switchgear. The team is responsible for standing up a stage-gate NPI process that works across diverse product families, running multiple concurrent NPI programs with a small TPM team, defining what "ready to transfer" means with manufacturing engineering, and enforcing change discipline at a pace that keeps up with the largest AI compute buildout in history. The role involves building the NPI process from scratch, leading and developing the NPI TPM team, owning portfolio-level program visibility, setting transfer-to-manufacturing standards, and holding the RACI between TPMs and engineering technical leads.
Requirements
- 10+ years in NPI or program management at a hardware OEM or ODM, with 3+ years leading TPM or NPI teams.
- You've built stage-gate processes yourself, defining the gates, readiness criteria, and ECO discipline, not just operated inside a process someone else designed.
- You've led TPM or NPI teams and developed the people in them, not just assigned their work.
- You've managed programs spanning multiple product lines simultaneously and can show how you kept them all honest.
- You've killed a program too late at least once, and you can name the signal you missed and what you watch for now.
- You keep NPI lightweight enough that engineers use it instead of routing around it.
Nice To Haves
- Portfolio management tooling
- Products spanning compute and power equipment
- Manufacturing transfer at new plants
- Building teams from zero
Responsibilities
- Build the NPI process from scratch: gate definitions, readiness criteria, and ECO and change discipline that hold across products ranging from racks to MV switchgear.
- Lead and develop the NPI TPM team, allocating 3 TPMs across 6 product families and making the tradeoffs explicit when coverage gets thin.
- Own portfolio-level program visibility, with status and risk reporting rigorous enough that leadership hears about problems from you before anyone else.
- Set the transfer-to-manufacturing standards with manufacturing engineering, defining exit criteria a program must clear before production takes ownership.
- Hold the RACI between TPMs and engineering technical leads so ownership never blurs and no decision waits on a debate about whose call it is.
Benefits
- Commitment to pay equity and transparency
- Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
