Description
As Manufacturing Program Manager at Fauna, you will own the integrated program that brings our hardware from development through production — connecting workstreams across contract manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and manufacturing engineering into a unified plan with clear milestones, dependencies, and accountability. You are the person ensuring all functions are moving in lockstep, risks are surfaced early, and the right decisions are made at the right time. This is a high-impact program management role for someone who thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving hardware environments and knows how to bring structure without bureaucracy.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the integrated master schedule across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and engineering workstreams — with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and critical path visibility
- Build and scale the program management processes, tools, and reporting that the team runs on — appropriate for a team that is growing quickly and building these systems for the first time
- Look around corners: identify risks and interdependencies before they become blockers, surface them early, and drive mitigation plans to resolution
- Establish and drive the operating cadence that keeps workstreams synchronized and decisions moving
- Drive alignment across functional leads, contractors, partners, and workstream owners to ensure coordinated delivery against shared milestones
- Manage escalation paths and ensure leadership has the visibility it needs to make informed tradeoff decisions on schedule, cost, and quality
- Partner with supply chain, quality, and others to understand workstream health and ensure interdependencies are reflected in the integrated plan
- Ensure ECOs, tooling decisions, and process changes are communicated across all affected workstreams with appropriate lead time
- Lead post-mortem and lessons-learned processes after each build phase to improve execution on subsequent cycles
- Mentor team members on program rigor, stakeholder management, and best practices as the organization grows
About the team
Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful.
At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders across the organization to act without having a direct reporting relationship
- Experience managing integrated programs across multiple concurrent workstreams (manufacturing, supply chain, quality, engineering)
- Demonstrated ability to identify risks early, drive mitigation plans, and escalate appropriately
- Familiarity with hardware product development lifecycles from NPI through volume production
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of general AI tools
- Background in consumer electronics, robotics, or electromechanical systems manufacturing
- Experience in an environment where manufacturing processes and program management systems were built from the ground up
- Experience mentoring or developing junior program managers
- Literacy in DFM/DFA, manufacturing quality systems (CAPA, FMEA, SPC), and supply chain planning — enough to ask the right questions and identify risks
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems and BOM-driven production planning
- Experience managing programs through significant volume growth
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NY, New York - 127,200.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually
