Technical Program Manager

Location: This role is based in Seattle, WA, with a hybrid work model. Team members are expected to be onsite at our downtown Seattle office from Tuesday through Thursday each week. 
Travel: This position requires travel approximately 25–50% of the time, primarily to contract manufacturing sites and customer locations to support product launches and key initiatives. 

At Avnos, we’re building hardware that doesn’t just capture carbon - it creates water. Our Hybrid Direct Air Capture (HDAC) system is the first of its kind: removing CO₂ from the air while producing clean water in the same process. It’s a breakthrough that makes carbon removal viable anywhere on Earth - and we’re scaling unit production fast. 

2026 marks the next phase of our journey: turning proven science into factory-ready products and large-scale deployments. That means new systems, new suppliers, and new manufacturing muscle. 

This is where you come in. Whether you’re driving manufacturing programs, building digital production systems, or managing the flow of materials that power our hardware, you’ll play a hands-on role in taking world-changing technology from blueprint to build. 

We move fast, solve hard problems, and celebrate real progress. If you want to help scale breakthrough climate hardware and see your work make an impact in the real world, Avnos is where you want to be. 

At Avnos, we believe diversity and inclusion fuels innovation and success. Our culture thrives on bringing together individuals from various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives coming together to make a meaningful impact. We welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, or any other dimension of diversity. Join us in creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered to contribute to our collective mission. Your unique talents and perspectives are not just welcomed - they are essential to our success. 

The TPM will drive New Product Introduction (NPI) readiness across internal engineering and our contract manufacturer (CM), ensuring our Alpha product is built with the highest design pedigree, data integrity, and quality traceability. This role sits at the intersection of hardware product engineering, manufacturing operations, digital systems, and program leadership, connecting product, production, and customer readiness. 

You’ll lead: 

• The implementation and adoption of our MES/PLM/WMS/QMS stack — launching inhouse and embedded directly in the CM as named users — making them a true surrogate factory.

• The execution of Alpha → Beta → Start of Production, SOP manufacturing readiness milestones, managing sprints, validation deliverables, and cross-functional handoffs from design through build.

• A culture of “always solve” — not just tracking issues, but closing them with technical curiosity, urgency, and data-driven decision-making.
  

What You’ll Do 

NPI Program Leadership 

• Lead the Alpha → Beta → SOP manufacturing introduction roadmap, aligning product engineering, supply chain, quality, and manufacturing teams using timelines, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and budgets as tools for data driven rapid decision making.

• Manage design release into the CM, ensuring clean data, configuration control, engineering change requests and orders - ECN/ECOs, and traceability from prototype to production.

• Define and track Key Deliverables: Design Quality, Cost Down Mapping, Validation, and Data Cleanliness.

MES & Digital Systems Implementation 

• Serve as program lead for MES rollout across PLM, P2P, WMS, QMS, and MES modules.

• Manage sprint-based go-lives for both internal and CM users, ensuring adoption, data integrity, and integration with NetSuite and Ramp and other systems (CAD, PLM, Requirements Tracking, etc.). 

• Establish operational dashboards and performance metrics linking build data to business outcomes. 

Manufacturing Readiness & CM Management 

• Lead product design reviews and functional standups between cross functional groups. 

• Coordinate build validation DVP&R buy off, EBOM to MBOM finalization, manufacturing and test readiness reviews with SME support, unblocking where resources or ambiguity block.

• Own manufacturing, QA and test risk assessments, mitigation plans, and change control (ECON/ECO) from Alpha through SOP, escalating to solve as needed.

• Develop and track timelines, WBS, budgets (Plan vs Actual), and manufacturing readiness gates.

• Ensure post-mortems and lessons learned from Product 1 flow into Product 2 CM RFPs Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership.

• Lead monthly business reviews summarizing execution performance, cost tracking, risk status, and CM operational health.

• Drive a culture of accountability, curiosity, and problem-solving across all stakeholders.

Required 

• 8+ years of experience leading hardware NPI programs from prototype through production in clean-tech, industrial, automotive, aerospace, or large format emerging tech hardware systems. 

• Demonstrated success managing contract manufacturers or joint development partners through build readiness and launch. 

• Hands-on familiarity with MES/PLM/ERP/WMS/QMS systems and their implementation (experience with NetSuite, Ramp, or similar preferred). 

• Strong technical understanding of manufacturing processes, supply chain interfaces, and digital thread integration – general assembly and fabrication processes. 

• Proven track record delivering complex programs on time, on budget, and to spec in a high-change, startup-paced environment. 

• Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder alignment skills — from shop floor to boardroom. 

Preferred 

• Experience in safety-critical or regulated hardware (energy, automotive, aerospace, or climate tech), bonus points if you have containerized or skid mounted scaled product experience or welding or coating manufacturing experience. 

• Experience with data-driven manufacturing and digital twins. 

• Agile/iterative “and” waterfall program management experience — managing sprints, and fast feedback loops while maintaining the goal of shipping hardware on time. 

• Comfortable “going to where the work is” — factory floors, CM sites, or field deployments. 

• Safety: Feedback and candor are encouraged and met with curiosity regardless of title. In all of our work locations, we show courage to speak up, own problems along with solutions, focus on task conflict (not personal conflict), and care for each other. 
• Ownership: Empowerment, while bringing people along through clear, crisp, early communication; follow through; we take full accountability; showing up even (especially) when it is hard; integrity; pride in one’s work and pride in our work. 
• Teamwork: Proactive collaboration, knowing we are greater than the sum of our parts; bringing each other along in our language, decisions, and tradeoffs so teammates are equipped to partner with us; thoughtful disagreement and discourse and support each other to identify blind spots and make wise decisions; generosity with our gratitude and recognition of others. 
• Growth Mindset: New ideas require creativity and risk taking, we embrace failure as a means to learn. We tolerate the discomfort of being a beginner in an industry that is solving the unsolved. Feedback is a vote of confidence and an offer of support to develop our ideas into great work. 
• Achievement: Bias for action while maintaining the highest standards. We practice prioritization, discipline, and focus in the service of achieving our goals and creating a lasting impact. 

• Unlimited PTO 
• Equity 
• Medical, Dental and Vision – Company covers 100% of employee and 50% of dependents 
• HSA 
• 401K 
• Parental leave 

Salary: For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $120,000 - $170,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The range listed above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified. In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity and benefits. The final compensation package will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills and experience. 

Accommodations: If you require reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know. Our team is dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and qualifications. We will work with you to provide the necessary accommodation based on your specific needs.