About Lumia

Lumia Health makes the Lumia 2, a smart earring that brings wellness tracking into a piece of jewelry people want to wear every day. It’s a new category of wearable, designed to be as refined as it is capable. We’re a Boston-based team of experts who own their areas and do the work.

The Role

We are hiring a Technical Program Manager to own the Lumia 2 hardware program from development through volume production.

You’ll be the coordinator and accountability partner across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and our suppliers, making sure a sound plan is in place and that everyone delivers against it. You look ahead to spot where the risks are, whether a supplier date, an open design question, or a gap in the production plan, and make sure they’re addressed before they become blockers.

You’re comfortable not being the expert in the room. You find the gaps by asking sharp questions, then making sure the right engineer closes them.

You will:

• Own the program schedule, build plans, and milestones across internal teams and suppliers
• Lead day-to-day execution with our hardware suppliers, including driving technical issues to resolution with the right engineers
• Find and reduce risk across engineering, supply, and production before it affects the schedule
• Give leadership clear, short updates and recommendations that support fast decisions

This is a hands-on role with a lot of ownership. You’ll build the plans, run the analyses, and hold the program to its commitments, while the engineering stays with the engineers.

What you’ll own

• Program plan and schedule. One master schedule across engineering, suppliers, and production, with clear owners, dependencies, and dates. You track progress against it and flag changes as soon as they happen.
• Supplier execution. Day-to-day program management of our technical suppliers. You track orders, engineering changes, and open issues, and bring in the right engineers to resolve technical questions quickly.
• Production readiness. Working with manufacturing, you build and stress-test the plan to scale output: capacity, test readiness, and material timing.
• Risks and issues. A living list of program risks and open issues, with owners, backup plans, and due dates. You drive each one to closure.
• Technical decisions. You identify the decisions the program needs, then review test data and join engineering calls to make sure tradeoffs are explicit, risks are surfaced, and the right owner makes the call quickly.
• Data-driven priorities. Using yield, time, and cost data, you help the team decide where to focus improvement work.
• Resourcing. You keep the plan matched to the people and capacity available to deliver it. When the program is short on skills or bandwidth, you see it early and bring in the right help, from inside the team, from our suppliers, or from outside.
• Communication. Concise weekly status for engineering, operations, and team leaders, plus program material for board reviews.
  

What you need

• 5 to 7 years of hardware program management or hardware engineering experience in consumer electronics, wearables, or medical devices, with scope across more than one discipline (for example engineering and manufacturing, or design and supply chain).
• You’ve personally run a hardware program end to end, doing the planning, analysis, and supplier work yourself. Experience at a startup or introducing a novel product inside a larger company is a strong signal.
• A track record of taking at least one complex hardware product, such as wearables or other small, sensor-rich, battery-powered devices, from development through production ramp and into customers’ hands, or equal depth on longer-cycle programs such as medical devices.
• Working knowledge of electronics manufacturing, production test, and supplier management.
• Enough technical depth to follow engineering discussions, spot gaps in a plan, and spot answers that don’t hold up, then push on them constructively without needing to supply the answer yourself. A degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equal hands-on experience.
• Low ego. You earn the trust of experts by making their work easier, not by competing with them. You know the limits of your own technical depth and speak with the level of confidence it supports.
• Experience building production capacity plans and doing your own analysis in spreadsheets.
• Clear, concise writing and speaking, for both technical teams and team leaders.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Lumia does not sponsor work visas for this role.

Lumia Health is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.