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Job Description
The starting base pay for this role is between $168,000 and $212,000 at the time of posting.
Key Responsibilities
- Integrated Leadership: Drive major cross-functional programs linking R&D (materials/equipment/battery development), Operations (manufacturing), Capital Projects (manufacturing scale-up), and Product + Commercial teams (customer "Plans to Win").
- Workflow Architect: Design and communicate workflows to resolve complex uncertainties and decisions. Maintain the "single source of truth" (integrated databases and governance tools) to keep objectives, metrics, and technical data synchronized across functions.
- Execution & Sequencing: Optimize the timing of R&D breakthroughs, scale-up projects, and commercial milestones to hit financial and strategic targets (e.g., revenue run rate, ROIC).
- Executive Communication & Partnership: Serve as the central point of accountability for program health, working closely with the Exec Sponsor and Steering Team to steward the program’s direction and approach. Deliver crisp status updates, risk assessments, and roadblock resolutions to executives and collaborators. Lead and participate in company-wide, cross-program prioritization efforts.
- Decision & Risk Management: Lead execs and functional managers through high-stakes decisions (e.g., project scoping, partner selection) and proactively mitigate cross-program dependencies before they impact timelines.
Requirements
- Sila’s Program Managers act as the "flight control tower" for our critical, multi-year integrated programs. This leadership role bridges R&D, engineering, capital project, and commercial workstreams to ensure complex products scale smoothly from lab to market. You aren't executing the functional tasks—you are orchestrating the sequencing, integration, and high-stakes decision-making required to land our strategic objectives safely, on time, and in-line with target financial metrics.
- Industry Experience: 10+ years in battery technology, automotive, chemical process, semiconductor, oil & gas, or a similarly complex hardware-plus-process industry. Program Leadership: 5+ years leading complex technical and/or business programs that integrate R&D, manufacturing scale-up, and commercial execution. Scale-up Expertise: Proven experience transferring novel technology and/or products from R&D into high-volume manufacturing environments. Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in an Engineering or Physical Science field. Program Management Fundamentals SME: Deep, demonstrable expertise in core program and project management disciplines—including decision quality, scheduling, budgeting, project framing, financial analysis, risk communication and analysis, and resource allocation. Systemic Program Architect: Proven ability to navigate a matrix model, ensuring functional activities support macro program objectives without duplicating effort. Master Communicator: Skilled at distilling complex technical, financial, and commercial data into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences. Strategic Influence: Adept at driving alignment among executives and SMEs, escalating effectively, and balancing technical risks with business objectives. New Product Introduction & Tech Transfer Mastery: Strong understanding of Stage-Gate methodologies, with the ability to leverage Agile or Waterfall frameworks depending on the workflow. Ambiguity Management: Comfortable driving execution and maintaining momentum especially in the face of uncertainties, when strategies shift, or deliverables are fluid.
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