Hardware Product and Program Manager

At Tive, we imagine a fully-transparent world in which everything and everyone is connected. We innovate beyond what the world thought possible—so what people hold near and dear arrives on time and in full.

We believe (and live!) four core values:

• Transparency First: We make everything visible so that everyone can operate better
• Always strive to make things simpler
• We are One Team, we have each other's backs
• Relentless iteration to optimize and improve

Whether shipped by road, rail, ocean, or air, Tive reduces shipment delays, minimizes rejected loads, and decreases theft, damage, and spoilage. Our customers count on Tive to ensure that their shipments are delivered on time and in full—because every shipment matters.

As the Senior Hardware Product and Program manager you will be responsible for defining our hardware roadmap and product requirements. You will also be responsible for facilitating the cross-functional execution and delivery across Tive (Hardware, Software, Sales/Marketing, finance). Your ability to define, document, and communicate holds the key to our timely and successful launches of new hardware products.

Your responsibilities:

• Product:
• • Become the voice of the customer, understanding market opportunities and needs and making the case for all new developments.
  • Work with our hardware and technology teams to define the vision for our hardware product roadmap.
  • Work with our hardware, technology, and marketing teams to own and create clear technical product requirements documents.
  • Implement change management rigor across all hardware product management.
• Program:
• • Own the overall schedule for the products you own, identifying and managing all risks.
  • Clearly communicate overall program status for all of our hardware programs on a weekly basis
  • Work with our existing program manager to improve our phase gate process and to align all new hardware developments with the phase gate process.
  • Ensure the phase gate process works for all hardware and software programs and that it is followed without exception and with exceptional communication at all stages of development.
  • Prepare for and run our phase gate process for new developments.
  • Mentor and build the program management function for the company.
  • Bring all functional areas together from engineering, finance, sales/marketing, and operations to deliver products to high volume production.

Your qualifications

• You are technical and can understand electrical & systems requirements and technologies as needed.
• You are an excellent communicator.
• You are adamant about meeting commitments and driving high quality and performance.
• 10+ years experience in hardware product and/or program management for high volume products.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional programs with aggressive timelines.
• Experience driving products into high-volume mass production with Asian contract manufacturers.
• Deep knowledge of program management best practices.
• BSEE, ME or Physics

What does Tive offer?

• A chance to join what may very well turn out to be the most important company in your career.
• The autonomy and resources to build what you know how to build.
• Work with a committed global team that have each others back.
• Office-based or hybrid options. Your choice. 
• Competitive equity to ensure all of our employees have a sense of ownership in the long-term success of Tive’s growth.
  

We celebrate diversity, and consider it key to our success as both a team and a company. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect for all employees.