Program Manager (Robotics)

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; onsite five days a week

Salary: $122,000–$153,500 per year, plus potential equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global Robotics develops and deploys robots for direct-to-customer food production, helping improve efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction in the food industry.

What you will do

• Drive cross-functional robot, software, manufacturing, pilot, deployment, and operational programs from planning through launch and post-launch iteration.
• Translate product and business priorities into plans with owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, decision points, and success criteria.
• Maintain roadmap visibility and run program reviews, launch readiness reviews, pilot reviews, escalation reviews, and postmortems.
• Coordinate product, engineering, operational, support, and deployment readiness for robot capabilities, software releases, pilots, and field deployments.
• Manage pilot operations, including scope, metrics, issue tracking, customer feedback, engineering follow-through, and recommendations.
• Coordinate hardware/software dependencies, reliability improvements, field escalations, telemetry, and feedback loops while communicating risks and decisions to leadership.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in program management, technical program management, product operations, engineering program management, product management, operations, or a related cross-functional execution role.
• Experience driving complex programs involving hardware, software, manufacturing, operations, deployment, support, or fielded technical systems.
• Strong technical fluency in engineering dependencies, hardware/software integration risks, release constraints, reliability issues, and technical tradeoffs.
• Ability to structure ambiguous programs, define ownership and milestones, surface risks early, and maintain execution discipline.
• Analytical mindset with experience using telemetry, operational data, support trends, product metrics, or pilot results to guide decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Support, Finance, Deployment, and Data stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience in robotics, automation, hardware/software products, food technology, restaurant technology, manufacturing systems, logistics, connected devices, or other operationally complex environments.
• Experience with pilot programs, customer deployments, production launches, field operations, or support escalation processes.
• Familiarity with V&V, reliability testing, manufacturing readiness, product acceptance, release management, certification, or launch readiness.
• Experience with telemetry, fleet monitoring, operational analytics, support systems, or product health dashboards.
• Experience in early-stage or high-growth environments where processes are built pragmatically from first principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment with support and guidance from experienced colleagues and managers.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including HSA options.
• Company-paid life and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k), flexible spending accounts, pet insurance discounts, and supplemental insurance options.
• Discretionary vacation, eight paid holidays, paid sick time, bereavement leave, and paid parental leave.