Technical Project Manager

Description

About Charge

Demand for new solar projects is booming (one-fifth of all the solar that exists in the US was installed last year!), but today’s construction companies can’t keep up due to limited labor resources.

We thought this was insane, so we developed robots to directly address this bottleneck and speed up the world’s transition to renewables. We’ve shipped our first commercial system already, and are in the process of scaling up our operations to meet our massive demand.

Charge is a fast-moving company, which means constant opportunities for learning and growth. You’ll have a large impact on the direction of our company and our product, which will be reflected in significant equity compensation. And you get to work with giant robots .

If you are excited to work on interesting technical problems with direct climate impact, you’re going to fit right in at the company.

Read more about Charge in recent press:

Fast Company - Solar Building Robots to Solve One of Climate's Biggest Problems (https://www.fastcompany.com/91108331/these-solar-assembling-robotic-arms-could-solve-one-of-the-industrys-biggest-problems)

MIT News - Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories (the company's site)

YouTube - full video of our Gen1 robots building a solar farm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2fP1Y5Z2E)

About the role

The company is hiring a Technical Project Manager (TPM) to own one of our most important new project: adapting our Sunrise system for a new deployment, taking it through an engineering development cycle and international field deployment. You'll be the connective tissue across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, and field teams — keeping a complex, multi-workstream effort on schedule and on spec from design through deployment.

What you'll be working on

Own the end-to-end project plan and schedule for the engineering development and deployment effort, coordinating across commercial, leadership, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and field teams

Drive the design adaptation cycle for the new system — tracking requirements, design reviews, and milestones from concept through production readiness

Collaborate with supply chain to manage external vendors and contract manufacturers to meet timelines, deliverables, and quality requirements

Plan and coordinate international deployment logistics (freight, mobilization, and on-site readiness) in partnership with field, engineering, and customer teams

Maintain a clear view of risks, dependencies, and critical path; surface tradeoffs and keep stakeholders aligned on status and decisions

You

Have 4+ years of technical program or project management experience, ideally with complex hardware systems

Have excellent organizational and communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and external partners

Operate effectively amid ambiguity in the fast-paced environment of a rapidly growing startup

Are based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work 4-5 days/week from our San Leandro HQ

Are open to travel (including international) to support manufacturing and deployment, and excited to see our robots deployed onto actual solar farms!

It'd also be nice if you

Have managed international hardware deployments or worked with overseas vendors and logistics

Are familiar with one or multiple of our intersecting industries: solar, robotics, construction

Are motivated by playing a direct role in fighting climate change by accelerating the transition to renewables