Lead Product Development Manager

Carbon is a company focused on enabling creators to make what the world needs through advanced 3D printing technology. The Lead Product Development Manager will oversee multi-disciplinary teams to integrate Carbon’s technology into high-volume manufacturing, ensuring customer success and competitive advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of The "Path to Production": Define and execute the end-to-end technical journey for customers, moving from initial design validation through to global factory-scale deployment of production applications
• Project Execution: Establish ownership of one or more highly complex programs by turning strategic initiatives into executable plans. Drive overall program execution to completion across all organizations involved, navigating technical and strategic challenges along the way to successfully meet deliverables
• Matrix Management: Provide consistent team leadership through influence and example. Maintain team focus on achieving product requirements and project milestones. Provide continuity from the start to end of the project, managing cross-functional technical teams to successfully meet deliverables
• Multi-Disciplinary Integration: Orchestrate specialized engineering workstreams—including Carbon’s materials, software, and hardware products—to solve for customer performance and cost-per-part requirements
• Risk & Barrier Removal: Proactively identify "showstoppers" in the production lifecycle (e.g., regulatory hurdles, supply chain gaps, or post-processing bottlenecks) and enlist technical resources to solve them. Act to mitigate risks and remove roadblocks by bringing energy and thoughtful guidance to all matters of problem solving, while tracking issues through to resolution
• Program Governance: Establish the frameworks for reporting and milestone tracking that provide absolute transparency to both internal leadership and external partners. Act as a strategic partner with senior leadership in all functions of a project
• Production Qualification: Lead the rigorous verification and validation processes, ensuring parts meet required specifications at scale
• Customer Success Engineering: Act as a technical interface for the customer at all levels of the organization, ensuring Carbon’s technology stack solves their specific manufacturing constraints and influencing a cooperative product roadmap for future growth

Requirements:

• 10+ years of technical leadership in applicable fields, such as high-volume manufacturing, process engineering, application engineering, or hardware-software integrated systems
• Self motivated to exhibit poised leadership in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment
• Ability to multitask and work effectively as an individual contributor as well as a team leader
• Experience navigating a matrixed project team structure, sharing resources and accountability with other managers
• Ability to identify issues and work proactively in addressing them
• Creative and methodic in leading teams to address problems in a detail oriented and action biased manner
• Ability to create structure and clarity for the project team during situations of ambiguity
• Effectively escalate, report progress, and relay direction/decisions across the organization
• Experience scaling prototype concepts to a globally distributed production environment
• Proven track record of delivering complex projects that carry significant consequence to the business performance and strategy
• Obsessed with repeatability, yield, and the rigors of a 24/7 manufacturing environment
• Comfortable navigating the dynamics of R&D phases of the lifecycle