Product Engineering NPI Team Lead

About the role

The Product Engineering NPI Team at Fluidstack is responsible for taking hardware from design release to repeatable production across various Fluidstack products, including compute racks and medium-voltage switchgear. This role involves building a stage-gate NPI process that works across different product families, managing a TPM team for six product families, ensuring portfolio-level program visibility, setting transfer-to-manufacturing standards, and holding RACI between TPMs and engineering technical leads.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years in NPI or program management at a hardware OEM or ODM, with 3+ years leading TPM or NPI teams.
• Built stage-gate processes yourself, defining gates, readiness criteria, and ECO discipline.
• Led TPM or NPI teams and developed the people in them.
• Managed programs spanning multiple product lines simultaneously and kept them all honest.
• Killed a program too late at least once and can name the signals missed and what you watch for now.
• Kept NPI lightweight enough that engineers use it instead of routing around it.
• Bonus: experience with portfolio management tooling, products spanning compute and power equipment, manufacturing transfer at new plants, or building teams from zero.

Pay

$208K - $263K