Engineering Program Manager
Halo Braid
Allston, massachusetts
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Full Job Description
ABOUT US
Halo Braid is a mission-driven startup creating the first automated hair braiding robot. By reducing braiding time from hours to minutes, we empower stylists to triple their business and address the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year. Our VC-backed, serial entrepreneur team brings experience from MIT, Harvard, Apple, Rivian, and Amazon Robotics
ABOUT THE ROLE
As the Engineering Program Manager at Halo Braid, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering our innovative hair braider to market. You thrive in a startup or fast-paced environment, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are key. You enjoy rolling up your sleeves to drive critical engineering initiatives while prioritizing user needs. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with a dynamic founding team and collaborate across Design, Hardware, and Software.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of hair styling technology, launch a new product, and have a significant impact on our fast-growing startup. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage applications from all backgrounds. Please apply and tell us how you can make a difference!
Requirements
YOU HAVE
- Led hardware development projects taking high quality products through production
- Owned project timelines, resource planning, and key milestones to keep initiatives on track
- Experience identifying and mitigating technical risks, and challenges in the product life cycle
- Experience and proven track record managing and coordinating complex, cross-functional projects successfully, working with both the internal team and external vendors
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to build relationships and influence others
- Leadership skills to lead and keep the project team focused and on track
- Excellent spoken and written communication with the ability to build and utilize relationships
- Attention to detail and are highly organized
- Ability to understand priorities and clarify direction
- Self motivated and hardworking with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
BONUS IF YOU HAVE
- Experience in consumer electronics, IoT, or robotics
- Technical expertise in areas like CAD, design for manufacturing (DFM), or embedded systems
Benefits
This role includes a competitive salary, equity, healthcare/dental coverage and unlimited PTO.