Manufacturing Operations Program Manager

About the Role

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave 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, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

The Hardware Quality & Operations organization at CoreWeave is responsible for delivering reliable, high‑performance hardware infrastructure at scale. The 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.

CoreWeave 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.

Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk. You’re comfortable driving execution across complex, cross‑functional hardware programs. You’re curious about how manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and engineering systems work together at scale. You’re an expert at translating technical risk into clear decisions and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• 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