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Our autonomous platforms redefine efficiency, reliability, and scalability in logistics. We’re a fast-growing team of innovators passionate about helping customers adopt automation seamlessly and successfully.\nSlip is growing on every axis at once: more products in development, more robots in the field, and a larger engineering team. Each new program has to move through development gates, into production, and out to customer sites, and then prove itself through field monitoring after launch. We're hiring a Director of Program Management to own that lifecycle end to end and to build the team that runs it. You own the program management function: the NPD portfolio, the stage-gate process, the integrated schedule, program risk, and deliverable management. You run gates with real authority. Programs pass when the work is done, not when the calendar says so. You publish one portfolio view the exec team can trust. And you hire and lead a small team of program managers and TPMs, each owning a specific program area, so the function scales with the portfolio.\nResponsibilities:\nYou build a small program management team from nearly scratch: dedicated PM/TPMs for each program area as it matures. You define the roles, run the hiring, set the standards for how program management works here, and develop the people. We expect 1-2 hires in addition to our existing small team in the first year, sequenced by portfolio need. \nPrograms from development to the field. A program isn't done at design freeze. You carry each one through development gates, through production ramp with the manufacturing team, through first deployments with field operations, and into post-launch field monitoring, until the product is stable and the lessons are fed back into the process. -\nThe NPD program portfolio. Multiple new products in active development. You own gate sequencing, gate packages, program schedules, and risk for each one. \nThe stage-gate process. Own the SOP, publish the gate calendar, and run every gate. \nThe integrated schedule. One schedule per program that people actually use, with cross-functional dependencies visible and slips surfaced early instead of discovered late. \nRequirements traceability. The specification of record for each program with change control. \nPortfolio status. A single current view of every program for the exec team, produced without pulling engineers into status theater.\nRequirements\n8+ years of program management on physical products (hardware, or hardware plus software), including 3+ years hiring, leading, and developing program managers or TPMs. \nYou have built or substantially grown a program management team, not just inherited one, and you can describe the roles you defined and why. \nYou have run a stage-gate NPD process end to end, from concept gates through production release, on a product that shipped. \nYou have carried a program past launch: production ramp, early field issues, and the feedback loop from the field back into engineering. - Schedule craft. You have built integrated master schedules that engineering teams actually maintained, not shelf-ware. \nTechnical fluency to follow a design review on an electromechanical or software product and know when a risk is real.\nPreferred:\n Robotics, automotive, or aerospace background. \nYou have stood up a PMO from scratch in a company that had never had one.\nGovernment or defense program experience.\nRequirements and program management tooling experience.\nBenefits\nCompetitive salary and equity in an early-stage robotics company\nComprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision\nPermissive time off policy\nA small team where your work has direct, visible impact on shipped products\nSlip Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate candidates on the merits of their experience and their fit for the role. 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