Engineering Program Manager

Description

Bevi is on a mission to disrupt the beverage supply chain and replace single-use water bottles with smart water machines. Thousands of companies use Bevi to sustainably provide their employees with pure, sparkling, and flavored water at work. As the market leader in IoT-enabled beverage machines, we’ve raised over $160M in venture capital and we’re doubling year over year. In addition to maintaining hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.

Bevi is looking for an Engineering Program Manager to drive critical projects in our sustaining, manufacturing, and quality engineering groups. Reporting to the Director of Program Management, the Engineering Program Manager will be a project lead and creative problem solver that works with cross-functional teams from ideation and requirements gathering, through engineering execution to launch and beyond. They will provide structure to the project efforts, transparency across the organization, and act as a proxy for leadership during the day to day execution of a program.

As an Engineering Program Manager at Bevi, you will:

• Drive programs to be on-time, on-spec, and on-budget.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in HW engineering, SW engineering, flavors, supply chain, sustaining engineering, manufacturing, and quality to organize programs
  • Create and manage program schedules that contain key deliverables and milestones to ensure project leaders are properly aligned
  • Document decisions made and track major tasks until completion
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive program budgets and product COGS estimates
  • Oversee test plan development (owned by engineering and quality teams) to ensure product requirements are comprehensively validated
  • Work closely with our Supply Chain team and our CM partner to ensure a smooth transition from design to manufacturing
• Deliver exceptional results against program team goals and clearly communicate to the broader management team
  • Be a thought partner to all groups – leverage creativity and engineering best practices to deliver innovative ideas and solutions
  • Manage risks so development resources are focused on the most important aspects of the program at all times
    • Facilitate cross-functional trade-off discussions and decision making
    • Analyze program risks and communicate risks to key stakeholders
    • Evaluate program scope to ensure no elements fall between the cracks
    • Prioritize your work and your team’s work across programs to be most effective
  • Facilitate communications across the business
    • Lead and direct program meetings, keeping meetings efficient and productive
    • Motivate program teams to deliver their best work
    • Collect and communicate action items, problems, and blockers from program teams and resolve disagreements by fostering open communication
    • Coordinate between departments to identify interdependencies within projects at all stages of program lifecycle
  • Own the project. Be responsible and do whatever it takes to ensure team success – remove roadblocks and wear many hats
  • Manage key program documents so that all stakeholders have clear and easy access to critical information regarding programs
  • Identify gaps in resourcing and recommend plans to close

Requirements

• 6+ years of work experience (2+ as an engineering program manager)
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (ME, EE, Manufacturing, or CS preferred)
• Strong technical intuition across multiple development and manufacturing engineering disciplines
• A track record of successfully launching hardware products in a technical program management or project management function, preferably within a rapidly growing startup.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to effectively manage a diverse, interdisciplinary team of stakeholders
• A bias towards action and ability to drive critical decisions to resolution
• Innate ability to breakdown large problems, dive deep, and effectively summarize for others
• Organizational skills and a keen sense of prioritization
• Experience with program management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Asana, Instagantt, MS Project

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
• 401(k) and environmentally responsible investment options
• Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
• Wellness and fitness reimbursements
• 15 days vacation and 9 paid holidays, plus additional paid days for sick leave, etc (including sustainability or social justice volunteer events)
• Paid parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
• Onsite snacks and Bevis... and composting and terracycling, too
• Happy hours, pancake breakfasts, Hero awards - and more!
• Join a team that shares our Bevi Core Values:
  • Put Customers First
  • Be Great to Work with
  • Raise the Bar Together
  • Act Like You Own the Business
  • Be Curious and Ask Why
  • Champion Sustainability