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NPI Operations Program Manager

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Sunnyvale, CA$168k - $234kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

NPI Operations Program Manager on the Accessories team at Reality Labs, responsible for driving cutting-edge consumer electronics from development to mass production across Smart Glasses, VR Headsets, and AI Devices. Bridges engineering with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, legal, and finance, ensuring engineering trade-offs, manufacturing constraints, and system-level dependencies are understood and resolved in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage cross-functional execution of NPI and mass production initiatives for cutting-edge consumer electronics devices by integrating engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain plans, communicate risk and status clearly and succinctly to management, calling out key technical issues and presenting options for resolution to Leadership
  • Establish and lead on-site bring-up and integration activities at factory sites, coordinating with both internal engineering teams and external manufacturing resources to drive hardware/firmware integration milestones
  • Drive supplier and factory readiness activities to execute development builds (EVT, DVT, PVT) leading up to ramp, including development of process qualification plans, yield improvement strategies, and defining capacity and CapEx requirements — clearly identifying engineering deliverables and dependencies
  • Assess, analyze, consolidate, and communicate engineering risk and program status clearly and succinctly to management, calling out key technical issues and presenting data-driven options for resolution to the cross-functional executive team through new product reviews and other executive forums
  • Lead the tactical execution of go-to-market initiatives by working closely with key cross-functional engineering and operations teams, bring a technically informed point of view, guiding decisions related to manufacturing feasibility, test coverage, and quality readiness
  • Liaise across engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure product cost, manufacturability, reliability, product quality, and safety & compliance performance goals are met — with an understanding of underlying engineering trade-offs
  • Drive Operations team towards factory readiness with manufacturing partners to support MP (line layout, automation, test infrastructure, capacity, CapEx)
  • Work with Product Cost Engineers to track and drive product cost targets through MP, leveraging engineering BOM analysis and manufacturing process optimization

Qualifications

  • BS in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, or related STEM discipline)
  • 7+ years of experience in an Operations-focused role for a Consumer Electronics device, with direct exposure to engineering development cycles (EVT/DVT/PVT)
  • Demonstrated experience in technical problem-solving and analytical skills, including the ability to interpret engineering data, test results, and manufacturing process metrics, advanced proficiency in Excel
  • Working knowledge of product architecture, engineering specifications, DFM/DFA principles, manufacturing processes (SMT, FA, test, packaging), and end-to-end supply chain for consumer electronics products
  • Experience working with and technically managing external suppliers, contract manufacturers, and JDM/ODM partners through build milestones
  • Proven project management experience, including cross-functional stakeholder management with engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams
  • Ability to communicate complex engineering concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment and prioritizing multiple competing workstreams to maximize engineering and business impact

Skills

Required:Cross-functional program managementTechnical problem-solving and data interpretationCommunication to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits (as part of compensation)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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