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We bring together amazing UX designers, sophisticated developers, digital strategists, and top-notch engineers to help companies create fresh experiences that connect humans, systems, and machines. We've been growing fast and need someone to help us continue to manage the delivery of high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.\nSee more at [freshconsulting.com](http://freshconsulting.com/). Visit [freshconsulting.com/portfolio](http://freshconsulting.com/portfolio) to see our project work across several industries.\nView and apply to all jobs - [https://freshconsulting.applytojob.com/apply/](https://freshconsulting.applytojob.com/apply/) or visit [freshconsulting.com/careers](http://freshconsulting.com/careers).\nTitle: Senior Technical Program Manager-NPI\nDuration: Direct Hire\nLocation: Austin, Texas - Onsite, with required travel 25% to the Florida.\nBenefits: Excellent benefits available, including unlimited PTO, 401(k) match, a bonus percentage tied to role, fully reimbursed travel and expenses, unlimited e-learning through Coursera, and relocation assistance.\nRole:\nOur client, a spatial computing company building the optics and manufacturing systems behind advanced augmented reality devices, is looking for a results-driven Senior Technical Program Manager. You'll drive New Product Introduction (NPI) and process-development programs, taking new waveguide processes from early R&D through prototyping until they are qualified, scalable and ready for mass production. The client produces surface-relief waveguides in-house on custom equipment, through many nanofabrication steps.\nDrive execution: move process-development programs from focused R&D and pathfinding, through rapid prototyping, to a scalable mass production roadmap, driving schedule, scope, and deliverables to closure\n Work closely with process, integration, and equipment engineers to translate complex technical concepts and experimental results into clear project scopes, roadmaps, and work breakdown structures\nKeep requirements, risk analysis, validation protocols and reports, and the transfer-to-manufacturing package on schedule as the process matures toward qualification for high-volume manufacturing\nFacilitate communication and strategic alignment between R&D, Process Engineering, Equipment Engineering, Quality, and High-Volume Manufacturing operations\nProactively identify technical risks, experimental dead-ends, and readiness gaps, and develop mitigation plans to keep the qualification timeline on track\nChair phase-gate reviews, ensuring the right technical authorities are in the room, decisions are made on time, and actions are captured and tracked to closure\nMaintain clear project tracking, dynamic dashboards, and executive reporting for portfolio health, scope changes, and budget allocation\nStand up metrics and program mechanics that show how fast process development is moving and whether a process is ready to advance based on clear readiness criteria\nQualifications:\n5+ years of technical program or project management experience, including process-development or NPI programs in a semiconductor, MEMS, or comparable nanofabrication environment\nExperience driving delivery from development through qualification and transfer to manufacturing\nOwnership of phase gates, validation protocols, and the transfer-to-manufacturing package\nExperience shaping line design for new or future lines, including automation, specs, and data systems\nTechnical breadth to engage with and challenge process, integration, equipment, and optical engineers, translating across disciplines\nFluency with DOE, SPC, and yield data as the basis for judging when a process is ready, and holding the team to that bar\nExceptional ability to synthesize complex, highly technical engineering updates into structured, actionable insights for executive leadership and internal operational teams\nAI-forward execution: uses modern AI tools to move faster, such as automating status synthesis and surfacing schedule and supply risks earlier\nWilling to spend frequent time on the manufacturing floor and in cleanroom environments to observe equipment, combined with a standard office environment\nAble to wear occasional PPE (safety glasses, steel-toed shoes, or cleanroom smocks) during equipment verification and documentation\nPreferred Qualifications:\nProcess experience with diffractive or surface-relief waveguides, semiconductor, advanced lithography, or other AR/MR display optics\nA feel for how process variation propagates into optical or display performance\nHardware systems engineering background with TPM experience taking products from concept to production\nExperience across the consumer electronics product lifecycle (semiconductor, electrical, optical, to fab/launch)\nEducation: Masters or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent is desired.\nCompensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Range is $140,000 to $160,000 USD annual base salary.\nEqual employment opportunity: All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, familial status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability for which a reasonable accommodation can be made or any other status protected by law. 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