Technical Program Manager

Staff Technical Program Manager

Location:

Alameda, California, United States

Compensation: $146, USD / year

Alameda, CA

• Technical Master Plan Ownership: Partner directly with engineering teams to map out complex technical workflows and help organize the technical strategies required to meet product requirements at Sila's factories and contract manufacturers. Own the master execution track, translating broad technology milestones into granular, week-by-week execution plans that keep technical paths aligned.
• Data-Driven Decision Facilitation: Act as a key facilitator who drives cross-functional alignment by consolidating technical data into a unified 'source of truth,' defining key assumptions, mapping out trade-offs, and ensuring leadership is equipped to make critical product design, process engineering, and capital project decisions.
• Risk Management & Resource Resolution: Own the resource reconciliation process to actively manage constraints across overlapping multi‑project matrices and resolve daily resource conflicts. Proactively maintain project risk registers and host technical alignment meetings to track engineering progress and align with Program priorities. Dynamically optimize execution plans and work with Program Leadership to adjust schedules in response to technical, timeline, and resource constraints.
• Leadership Communication & Stakeholder Transparency: Clearly communicate technical readiness status, execution risks and critical roadblocks to cross-functional teams and Program Leadership. Own the creation and maintenance of standardized visibility tools, including NPI‑related dashboards, weekly metric reporting, and centralized documentation spaces – ensuring technical leaders have the accurate, ground‑truth data needed to drive decisions.
• Business Process & Program Management Evolution: Drive the rigorous completion of 'Technical Handshakes' and the tactical integration of quality standards (e.g., APQP, ISO compliance) into daily engineering workflows. Ensure that critical documentation, including Product Design Documents (PDDs), Manufacturing Control Plans (MCPs), and FMEAs, is fully finalized before handover to high-volume manufacturing.

• Cross-Functional Program Orchestration: Exceptional ability to align, partner, and drive execution across diverse teams—including R&D, Process Integration, Product Management, Manufacturing, Operations and Quality—using robust program and project management frameworks.
• Matrix Navigation & Proactive Problem Solving: Highly proactive problem solver adept at identifying resource or schedule constraints early, balancing competing multi‑project demands, and cleanly navigating complex, matrixed organizational environments.
• Technical Fluency & Strategic Communication: Ability to 'speak engineer' to grasp technical dependencies and risks across early‑stage material development and scaling phases, paired with the capability to distill complex data into clear, actionable summaries for executive decision‑making.

• Industry
  
  Experience:
  
  6+ years of professional experience in a high‑tech manufacturing, R&D, or technology scale‑up environment (e.g., battery technology, semiconductors, chemical processing, automotive, or complex hardware‑plus‑process industries).
• Technical Program and/or Project Leadership: 3+ years of experience leading technical workflows, product/process development tracks, or complex project management life cycles.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related Engineering or Physical Science field.

• Wear personal protective equipment including, but not limited to, a lab coat, gloves, safety glasses, and steel toe safety shoes
• Move items up to 50 lbs with the assistance of lift equipment and carts
• Move long distances (such as from building to building) and be stationary for extended periods of time
• Reach low shelves or items on the floor
• Enter spaces narrower than 3 feet
• Climb stairs or over containment walls
• Precise and repetitive…