Program Manager, Vision & Robotics

Location: USA Wilmington, MA — HQ; onsite role. Up to 20% travel may be required to client and customer locations.

Base salary: $144,000–$211,200 per year, varying by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered robotic and software platforms for high-density warehouse automation and supply-chain operations.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end planning and execution for a portfolio of Vision and Robotics initiatives, including scope, milestones, schedules, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Build integrated roadmaps across vision, perception, robotics, software, controls, and cell hardware workstreams.
• Identify delivery risks, capacity constraints, and gaps; drive decisions, escalations, prioritization, and schedule trade-offs.
• Manage engineering execution in Jira through backlogs, releases, dependencies, issue tracking, dashboards, and program-health metrics.
• Coordinate integration, validation, release readiness, demonstrations, acceptance activities, and deployment milestones across labs, test environments, and customer sites.
• Connect Engineering, Customer Success, program teams, customers, external partners, and leadership from development through deployment.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of related or equivalent work experience.
• BS in Engineering, Robotics, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs involving robotics, industrial automation, computer vision, perception, sensing, mechatronics, or similarly integrated systems.
• Strong understanding of hardware, software, controls, systems integration, and product-development processes, with experience in NPD and/or NPI environments.
• Ability to develop integrated schedules, manage cross-team dependencies, assess risk and capacity, and drive scope and priority decisions across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Hands-on proficiency with Jira and experience using program plans, dashboards, and metrics to provide delivery-health visibility.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills; ability to operate autonomously, challenge priorities constructively, and align engineers, engineering leaders, executives, customers, and external partners.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to drive and/or fly to client and customer locations.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, PTO, and/or other benefits.
• Business travel expenses are reimbursed according to program guidelines; a personal credit card may be required during onboarding before a corporate card is issued.
• Collaborative environment focused on innovation, diverse perspectives, and cross-functional teamwork.
• Equal opportunity employment with non-discrimination protections covering legally specified personal characteristics.