Do you like to bring order to chaos by working with a team of talented, uplifting people? Do you enjoy both the joy of software and the thrill of real physical stuff? We are seeking a manufacturing software technical program manager to help us organize, track, and prioritize our manufacturing software efforts. This is an intensely collaborative position, and while it’s very remote-friendly, candidates must be able to work in real-time with colleagues in a manufacturing facility in the US Central timezone.

• Collaborate with other functions across operations, hardware engineering and software engineering to understand the dependencies between work streams and implement best practices around program management for our manufacturing software

• Work with internal stakeholders on manufacturing software development priorities, schedule, and tradeoffs

• Organize and communicate manufacturing software release processes such as scheduling, planning, and testing cycles

• Nimbly manage projects large and small as we scale our manufacturing software team and drive enhancements necessary to assure that we make a highest quality product

• Communicate regularly with operations teams to ensure transparency in plans and progress towards manufacturing priorities, adjusting plans thoughtfully as priorities change

• Contribute to process documentation and help maintain the accuracy of data in our program management tools, making recommendations as needed to improve our ways of working

• Contribute to areas of the product that interest you beyond your day-to-day program management duties

• Enjoy watching How It’s Made

• Have previously worked with complex software deliverables involving multiple teams

• Have worked with physical infrastructure in some operational capacity, be it as a team deploying on and/or operating hardware or in a manufacturing context

• Are a people person who can drive clear communication across engineering, operations, and manufacturing

• Are energized by the thought of operating between traditional roles and silos

• Enjoy organizing and aren’t intimidated by ambiguity

• Value the written word, can concisely communicate in written form

• Get excited about a wide range of technical topics and dig really deeply into them

• Learn enough about our product to understand what we’re building

• Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.

• Listen to some of our episodes of Oxide and Friends to get a sense for how we operate. A few recommendations:

  • Scaling Manufacturing about our experience rapidly ramping our manufacturing and supply chain.

  • Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1 on how it all came together for our first customer shipment

  • Raiding the Minibar about a test rig we’ve developed for our manufacturing line

  • RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide on how we got to our writing-intensive culture

  • Cultural Idiosyncrasies on the (many?) unusual aspects of Oxide’s culture

  • RTO or GTFO on why Oxide is a remote-first company