Manufacturing Operations Program Manager

Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, Core Weave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, Core Weave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, Core Weave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

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The Hardware Quality & Operations organization at Core Weave is responsible for delivering reliable, high-performance hardware infrastructure  team partners across engineering, product lifecycle management, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality to ensure new products and sustaining production lines are ready to build, test, and operate successfully.

Core Weave is seeking an experienced Staff Manufacturing Operations Program Manager to join the Hardware Quality & Operations organization. This role will focus on manufacturing execution and transformation across new product introduction (NPI) and sustaining operations. You will lead cross‑organizational build and test readiness alignment across NPI phases, drive sustaining program management, identify and mitigate risk, facilitate quality excursion oversight, and serve as a central point of alignment across engineering, PLM, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality stakeholders.

This is a highly cross‑functional, execution‑focused role for someone who is comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity, translating technical risk into business impact, and holding technical teams accountable to program milestones across new product ramps and mature production lines.

In this role, you will:

• Define and own the NPI manufacturing program plan across EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP phases, including schedule, build and test readiness, exit criteria, and go/no‑go gate reviews.
• Own the transition from NPI to sustaining, ensuring process documentation, quality plans, spares strategy, and open action items are handed off cleanly to steady‑state production.
• Stand up and maintain risk registers covering technical, supply chain, quality, and schedule risks across contract manufacturers, suppliers, and data centers.
• Own readiness reviews for changes introduced into active production lines, ensuring changes are validated and risk‑assessed before rollout.

• Manage manufacturing strategies encompassing contract manufacturer expansion, data enablement, and cross‑contract‑manufacturer standardization.
• Lead the evolution of the Hardware Quality metrics framework.

• Act as a primary point of alignment across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and program and product management for assigned NPI and sustaining programs.

• Prepare and deliver executive‑level program updates, including status, risks, and decisions needed, to leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders.

• Build consensus across teams with competing priorities and drive decisions to closure when programs are at risk, whether during a new product ramp or a live production issue.

• 8+ years of experience in program management, NPI, operations, or quality within hardware manufacturing environments, spanning both new product launches and sustaining or steady‑state production.
• Demonstrated ownership of NPI programs through EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP build phases, with direct experience driving build and test readiness.
• Experience managing sustaining engineering programs, including ECOs, running changes, second‑source qualification, or end‑of‑life and product transition planning.
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