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 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, and ensuring portfolio-level program visibility.

Responsibilities

• Build the NPI process from scratch, defining gate definitions, readiness criteria, and ECO discipline.
• Lead and develop the NPI TPM team, allocating resources across 6 product families.
• Own portfolio-level program visibility, providing status and risk reports that are actionable for leadership.
• Set transfer-to-manufacturing standards with manufacturing engineering, defining exit criteria for programs.
• Hold the RACI between TPMs and engineering technical leads to ensure clear ownership and decision-making.

Requirements

• 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, not just assigned their work.
• Managed programs spanning multiple product lines simultaneously and maintained program integrity.
• Killed a program too late at least once, demonstrating the ability to recognize signals and adjust strategies.
• Kept NPI lightweight enough that engineers used it instead of routing around it.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• Experience with manufacturing transfer at new plants.
• Portfolio management tooling experience.
• Building teams from zero.

Skills

• Strong project management skills.
• Experience with stage-gate processes.
• Ability to manage multiple product lines simultaneously.
• Effective communication and leadership skills.

Benefits

Fluidstack offers competitive compensation and benefits, including:

• Compensation range: $208K - $263K
• Equal employment opportunity employer
• Commitment to pay equity and transparency
• Comprehensive benefits package

Pay

$208K - $263K

Schedule

Full-time