Senior TPM - Industrial Programs (Robotics)

Location: Mountain View, United States

Salary: $175K–$250K plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops generalist intelligent robots across the full robotics stack, including hardware, robot systems, infrastructure, and foundation world models.

What you will do

• Lead operational readiness and process rollout for hardware delivery and customer shipment commitments.
• Coordinate suppliers and unit ramp planning across prototype, pilot, and production phases.
• Drive scale-up from initial builds through high-volume production while tracking yield, throughput, and quality targets.
• Manage certification and compliance sequencing, including CE, UL, FCC, or equivalent approvals.
• Coordinate transitions from prototype validation to commercial launch and maintain quality and readiness standards.
• Build supplier scorecards, production readiness reviews, manufacturing milestone plans, process controls, and production documentation while mitigating supply chain and factory capacity risks.

Requirements

• 7+ years in technical program management, operations program management, or supply chain program leadership.
• Experience managing hardware ramp programs from prototype through production, ideally in robotics, consumer electronics, or industrial equipment.
• Strong understanding of NPI processes, supplier qualification, and manufacturing readiness reviews.
• Experience managing certification and compliance schedules such as CE, UL, FCC, or equivalent across complex programs.
• Experience coordinating multi-party supplier relationships under aggressive production timelines.
• Excellent data-driven communication skills and the ability to synthesize production metrics into executive-level reporting.

Nice to have

• Experience with contract manufacturing partnerships and offshore supplier management.
• Familiarity with robotics or electromechanical systems manufacturing.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent operational excellence experience.
• Experience in a startup scaling hardware from 0 to 1,000+ units.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on generalist intelligent robots designed for complex real-world environments and long-tail edge cases.
• Contribute to hardware development, model research, infrastructure, and manufacturing scale-up.
• Full-time employment with equity included in the compensation package.